Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Some 340 Afghan refugees had been detained during the past three days in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police source said. “Police have detained 340 Afghan refugees during the past three days,” Abbas Majid Marwat, Senior Superintendent of Police of Peshawar was quoted by Geo TV, as saying. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Monday gave vote of confidence to the nominee for defense ministry Abdullah Habibi, chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, and member of the High Council for Supreme Court Mohammad Zaman Sangari. Stanekzai achieved 161 votes out of …

PM Modi, who has made as many as 40 foreign trips in the two years since taking charge, may soon get a taste of flying in the advanced aircraft fitted with the latest in technology. The prime minister of India is set to get a brand new Air India One …

AT-KABUL: Nai—an organization supporting open media in Afghanistan said Monday that 10 cases of violence against journalists had been registered within past 20 days. The organization termed the ongoing month was the most violent for journalists. Seddiqullah Tawhidi, head of the watchdog said that two murders, four beatings and torture …

AT-KABUL: At least 10 people were killed and over 40 others were wounded after an explosive went off in a district bazaar in northern Badakhshan province Monday morning, officials said. “Ten people were killed and over 40 others mostly civilian were injured, after roadside hidden explosive devices blew up in …

AT-KABUL:At least 14 Nepalese citizens working for a security company were killed, nine people including five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians were injured on Monday morning when a suicide bomber targeted a mini bus carrying the Nepalese guards in Kabul city, officials said. The attacker rammed into the minibus in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Six civilians were shot injured by the Taliban insurgents over an allegation of breaking Ramadan fast in western Herat province, governor spokesman, Jilani Farhad told Afghanistan Times. The shooting took place in Obe district of the province. “Health condition of the shot people are not critical,” he …

Flare-up of Afghanistan-Pakistan border tensions signals a shift of dynamics in their historically thorny relationship. Julian Huxley once wrote that “a nation is a society united by a common error as to its origins and a common aversion to its neighbours”. If there is any truth to Huxley’s remark, the …

Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs 300 million in its budget to a madrassa known as the ‘University of Jihad’ and having top Afghan Taliban leaders among its alumni, including its former chief Mullah Omar. “I am proudly announcing that Darul Uloom Haqqania Nowshera will get Rs 300 million to …

By M. Nadeem Alizai-Social media is becoming a powerful force in national politics. Issues that are ignored by the mainstream media are highlighted by the social media users. Once there was a time when major news channels and newspapers in Afghanistan served as major source of information for Afghans using …