Afghanistan Times

Increasing numbers of Afghan refugees are stoking an interest in the game in their new adopted land “The Taliban killed my father. There was danger for me too.” Niamatullah, a short but firmly built boy of 17, pauses as he speaks about his journey from Afghanistan to SG Findorff club …

AT-KABUL: Educational experts told the Rana Think Tank session on Monday that the government must work for a unified and updated curriculum in order to boost up education quality across the country. The think-tank participants believed that students use handwritten old notes to learn lessons, because printed textbooks are not …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai says that Afghanistan is the joint home for every Afghan and nobody was allowed to hurt the unity and solidarity of Afghan people. Karzai’s office reported that he said these words in a meeting with a number of the youth and civil society activists from …

AT-KABUL: Three suicide bombers were killed by their handmade explosive device in the Bagram district of Parwan province, officials confirmed Tuesday. District police chief Ahmad Khan Ahmadzai told media that these three suicide bombers attempted to target one of the important institutions in Parwan province. He added that the terrorists …

AT-KABUL: Security forces in a joint operation, arrested Nazir Kulal, head of an armed abduction group with his 12 colleagues in Charikar city, the provincial capital of Parwan, provincial official said . Nazir Kulal is accused of several human criminals including killing, abduction and stealing in this province. Provincial spokesman …

It is an open secret that Pakistan is godfather of different terrorist outfits, including but not limited to the Taliban, Haqqani Network, Jaish-e-Muhammad, al-Qaeda, Harkatul Mujahideen, and Daesh. Documents have been recovered from Daesh fighters, showing they receive command from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to wage war against Afghanistan generally …

AT-KABUL: Sixty-eight Taliban fighters were killed and 36 others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours, officials said. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense said that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and National Directorate of Security (NDS) conducted operations against …

AT-KABUL: A senior official in the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation was arrested on the charge of receiving 800,000 Afghanis bribe from a person, a security official said Tuesday. Ministry of Interior in statement on Tuesday said that the criminal investigation police in cooperation with judiciary organs arrested Mohammad Mahdi, …

Flash floods have swept away two passenger vehicles in southeastern Khost province, killing at least 17 people, local officials said on Tuesday. The floods caused the fatalities in Yaqubi district and Haroonkhel area on the outskirts of Khost City, the acting head of the Afghanistan natural disaster management authority said. …

At a time when the potable water is more needed in the world, the precious waters flow from Afghanistan freely to the neighboring countries. Thousands of acres of agricultural lands are destroyed or damaged annually in the spring floods across Afghanistan, particularly in the central, north, east and west north …