Afghanistan Times

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Police said Tuesday that expats including foreign journalists can demand security services, if they think to face threats in the capital of Kabul. Chief of criminal investigations at Kabul police Feraidon Ubaidi told Afghanistan Times that for better security of the foreign citizens, Kabul police ordered …

AT-KABUL: An airfield constructed for the military choppers was opened in southern Ghazni province, officials said Tuesday. The small airfield for safe takeoffs and landing of military helicopters was inaugurated in Malistan district, said Public relation and Information Director for Civil Aviation Authority Qasim Rahimi. He said that the new …

AT-KABUL: 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 11 others were wounded in different operations within past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday. Defense ministry said in statement said that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and the National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted joint operations against insurgents …

By Zafar Mehdi-What starts as intermittent exchange of fire can sometimes escalate to a full-blown war with far-reaching consequences. Over the past one week, these fears were ignited when estranged neighbours Pakistan and Afghanistan resorted to brinkmanship, flexed their military muscle and fired artillery at the Torkham border, leading to …

Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday said that Afghan refugee camps within Pakistan turned into safe havens for terrorists after the country’s armed forces destroyed the militants’ infrastructure in tribal areas. In an interview with SAMAA TV, he said the issue of Afghan refugees has …

AT-KABUL: Armed militants today have kidnapped nearly 100 passengers from Herat-Kandahar highway in southwestern Helmand province, officials said. The kidnapping took place in Grishk district of Helmand province today early in the morning and the passengers have been taken toward unknown direction, Helmand Police chief, Agha Noor Kintooz said. At …

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have begun their third year in the lead for security in Afghanistan and the second year in which they have full security responsibility with limited U.S. or coalition support on the battlefield. During the December 1, 2015, to May 31, 2016, reporting …

AT-: Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai led an inter-ministerial delegation—consisting of senior civilian and military officials—to visit Islamabad, Pakistan, at the invitation of Mr. Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs. The Deputy Foreign Minister, accompanied by Dr. Omar Zakhiwal, Special Envoy of the President and …

Rejecting to take action against Afghan Taliban, the adviser to Pakistan’s premier on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that his country could not fight “Afghanistan’s war on its own soil”. In these days Islamabad is under crippling pressure from Washington because the former failed to target Haqqani Network, the Taliban …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the suicide attacks in Kabul and Badakhshan provinces that killed and injured a number of foreign citizens and innocent people. Presidential palace in a statement denounced Monday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul where 14 Nepalese were killed, nine people (five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians) …