Afghanistan Times

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) …

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 …