Afghanistan Times

By Farhad Naibkhel-ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Former President Hamid Karzai calls “bad policies and wrong definition of the national interest” as the main factors behind terrorism and extremism. “I don’t believe that extremism, radicalism and terrorism are only because of social condition or religion,” Karzai stated in a speech at the Eurasian …

AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours killed at least 48 militants during several military operations across the country, the Ministry of Defense on Friday said in a media statement. The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces in past 24 hours launched several crackdowns against insurgents in Nangarhar, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Acting defense minister Masoom Stanikzai in a visit to Kunduz province on Friday, said that Afghanistan is facing an imposed war. He added that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces would not remain silent against the conspiracies of enemies of the country. Stanikza was accompanied by …

KABUL: After deadly Kabul suicide attack, Afghan government ordered the Afghan National Security Forces for the ‘no mercy policy’ against militants to eliminate “the enemy everywhere they are spotted”, officials said in a press conference on Thursday. “President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the Afghan National Security Forces to repress the …

Thousands of acres of agricultural lands are destroyed or damaged annually in the spring floods across Afghanistan, particularly in the central, north, east and west north provinces. Human casualties are other calamity of this natural disaster. The flood makes a border problem as well, as it damages the Afghanistan side …

AT-KABUL: The Civil society bodies condemned the recent suicide attack in Kabul in a strongest and possible terms, asking the National Unity Government to introduce new nominees for the Ministry of Defense and also for the National Directorate of Security to the parliament for vote of confidence as soon as …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The night before Kabul’s suicide attack, President Ashraf Ghani met some members of the parliament to discuss security situation, the lawmakers said Wednesday. “President Ghani marked the next six months bloody for Afghanistan as militants intensified attacks,” the lawmakers who met Ghani, told parliament session. A …

AT-KABUL: An analysis session held by the Rana Think Tank, called the current government weaker comparing the past administrations, saying that mistakes in the serving government are much more than experienced in the monarchy and the administrations after that. Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, former Kabul provincial governor who now heads the …

By M. Sadiq Yousafi-KABUL: The death toll from the Tuesday’s deadliest Taliban attack incapital Kabul jumped to 64, and the number of injured persons to 347, several of them still in hospitals under treatment, according to security officials. “With regrets to announce in yesterday’s (Tuesday) attack, 64 of our innocent …

The government says it is now calling Taliban as terrorists, the militants who have been waging the 14-year-long battle with the NATO-backed government forces and have several times refused Kabul administration’s demands for peace talks. The former president Hamid Karzai following a peaceful policy used to call Taliban insurgents as …