Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Ambassador of India to Afghanistan, Manpreet Vohra, visited Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) to familiarize himself with the institute and services being rendered by the institute. He also visited the recently established diagnostic centre and surgical ward at IGICH and saw the ongoing construction of two waste …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Two young girls biked more than 100 kilometers from Bamyan province to Kabul, conveying the massage of justice to the government about the transition of the 500 kw electricity line through Bamyan province instead of Salang. Zakia Mohammadi and Golsum Zahra, two members of National Cycling …

AT-KABUL: The state-run Regional Studies Center of Afghanistan urged the government to support it for further progress. “We face shortage of budget, and the government is required to support us to have capability for further researches in the future,” said Rafiullah Niazi, head of the center, in a ceremony marking …

AT-KABUL: As many as 152 Afghan students will soon leave for India to pursue higher education at the Indian universities, enjoying scholarships provided by New Delhi. “India provides Afghan government 1,000 scholarships in bachelor degree, where 152 selected students including male and female will leave for India next week,” Indian …

AT-KABUL:  Fifty three Taliban militants were killed and 20 others injured as the result of different crackdowns within past 24 hours, security officials said on Monday. In a statement Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of …

WASHINGTON: Over seventy prominent scholars and activists, including Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to visit with Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, and to announce concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament when he visits Hiroshima this Friday after the Group of Seven economic summit in Japan. American …

There is no denying that Afghanistan is a gateway to Central Asia. Thus, the country is a bridge between the energy-starving South Asian countries energy-rich Central Asian republics. However, the foreign invasions and civil war never let the country to tap its potential and become a developed state. After fall …

By Abbas Jan-There is a broad based agreement with in the scientific community that climate change is real. The U.S environmental protection agency, the national aeronautics and space administration, and the National oceanic and atmospheric administration concur that climate change is indeed occurring and is almost certainly due to human …

The Government of Afghanistan and the US Government have confirmed that an operation by US forces resulted in the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur. Under Mullah Mansur’s leadership, the Taliban have continued to conduct brutal attacks across Afghanistan, leading to the death and suffering of countless Afghan civilians …

US president calls apparent death an “important milestone” after several drones attack his Mansoor’s car in Pakistan. US President Barack Obama has said Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US strike. In a statement on Monday, he called Mansour’s death an “important milestone”. “We have removed …