Afghanistan Times

KABUL – Children in Afghanistan increasingly struggle to access healthcare and education, the UN said in the report released Monday, ‘Education and Healthcare at Risk – Key trends and incidents affecting children’s access to healthcare and education in Afghanistan’. Jointly produced by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of the Parliament as well as civil society activists on Monday called on the Iranian government to prosecute the brutal incident against Setayish Quraishi, a six-year-old Afghan migrant girl, raped and killed one week ago by a teenager Iranian boy. …

AT-KABUL: Some 200 armed insurgents were killed and wounded in separate raids during past 24 hours across the country, Defense Ministry said on Monday. Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a media statement, said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health along with UNICEF and the World Health Organization kicked off the polio immunization campaign on Monday to vaccinate every childunder age of five years in the low-performing districts. The polio immunization campaign was launched in all districts of southern, eastern, southeastern regions …

Afghan people are actually the most vulnerable in the world, more helpless than Yemenis, Iraqis and Syrians. Syrians are witnessing the flames of the war for five years and the war in Iraq in its eighth or ninth year and they are noticed as the war-hit people and are welcomed …

Due to lack of government support 1024 factory are at the brink of collapse: Hafizi By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Monday opened its first ever business innovation center in Kabul to support innovators. “Through opening of business innovation center, a crucial step has been hold to …

In a latest push to resurrect the fledgling Afghan peace process, Pakistan has warned the Taliban to call off their ‘spring offensive’ or face the consequences, officials familiar with the development said on Sunday. Last week the Taliban announced the start of large-scale attacks against the government strongholds. Named after …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai met Sunday with the ambassadors to Russian Federation, Italy and Kazakhstan to Kabul, his office said. “In the meeting with Ambassador Alexander Mantytskiy, Karzai appreciated Russian government for inviting him at the Moscow security conference, planned to be held late this month,” Karzai’s office said …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asked the international community to seek a sustainable solution for Afghan refugees. The UNHCR High Commissioner Assistant for Protection and Operations, George Okoth-Obbo said on Sunday that the number of refugees returning under the UNHCR assistant repatriation operation …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The civil society and political parties criticized the delay in the country’s parliamentary elections, saying that further delay meant to play with nation’s destiny. “Killing of time for holding parliamentary election is a kind of playing with nation’s fate,” Naim Ayobzada, head of Transparent Election Foundation of …