Afghanistan Times

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The first-ever female education complex named ‘Moraa University and High School’ started in Kabul with the aim of providing primary and higher education for the girls who are forbidden from attendance in the mixed learning institutes due to social taboos. The complex was invested by around eight …

“Provincial officials do not report about ground realities. Central government is blind and kept in dark. Lashkargah is on the verge of collapse,” PC member laments. AT News Report KABUL: In the past three days, conflicting reports have emerged from Helmand about security situation as the Taliban tighten grip over …

The government had lulled people into thinking that their lives and properties are protected. The false sense of security has failed to gain a foothold in minds of people. Fragile security situation is exposing the strength and strategies of all those, in the power corridors, who promised to provide relief …

AT-KABUL: Taliban fighters have killed at least 12 people, after kidnapping more than 220 passengers from several busses on the Kabul-Kunduz highway in northern Afghanistan, official sources told Afghanistan Times. Tens of Taliban fighters with light and heavy weapons early in the morning on Tuesday established temporary check points in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to Islamabad Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal in a meeting with Pakistan prime minister’s advisor Sartaj Aziz, offered his best wishes for rapid recovery to prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who will undergo an open-heart surgery in London today (Tuesday), Afghan embassy in Pakistan said in media statement. …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that three terrorists linked with Haqqani network were arrested in southern Logar province. A press statement issued here NDS said that it is operatives succeeded to arrest three terrorists through an operation in Sarghonda village of Khoshi district in Logar …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, told newsmen in Charsadda district that Kabul-Islamabad relations may become more inauspicious after the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. Mansour was killed in a US drone strike on May 21 in Pakistani province of Balochistan. Sherpao …

AT-KABUL: Two Pakistani women, loyal to the Islamic State known as Daesh, were arrested in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said, as they were transferring classified documents to the group. The National Security and Defence Forces arrested the suspected women in Kot district, provincial government’s media office said on Monday. The …

AT-KABUL: At least 29 insurgents were killed by the airstrikes targeted their sanctuaries in the northern province of Baghlan and southern Kandahar, security official said on Monday. Ministry of Defence said in a statement that 18 militants were killed in Baghan-e-Markzai district of the Baghlan province. In addition to that, …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The work for the war-ruined Darul Aman Palace reconstruction officially began. “The Darul Aman ruined palace is a historical Afghan palace, which will be rebuilt by the government budget,” President Ashraf Ghani said at a ceremony held Monday for the palace reconstruction. Ghani said that the reconstruction …