Afghanistan Times

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health reported of the establishment of a medical body named Afghanistan Interim Medical Council, saying it aimed to standardize healthcare services. “The council will make efforts to standardize healthcare services and enrich medical universities’ curriculum with the collaboration of related organs,” Minister of Public …

AT-KABUL: The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Tuesday said that five drug runners were arrested through different operations last week in the country. “Five smugglers were apprehended by the counter-narcotics police through different crackdowns in Kabul, Nangarhar, and Paktia provinces,” the CJTF said in a statement. More …

AT-KABUL: Kabul Municipality plans to asphalt160 kilometer roads in the capital, while 800 kilometer roads have been already reconstructed, it said Tuesday. Kabul caretaker mayor Mohammad Aslam Akrami said they plan to asphalt and reconstruct more roads including the ones in Khair Khana and Taimani neighborhoods in the new Afghan …

KABUL: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that each year dozens or even hundreds of women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected to invasive, humiliating, and sometimes painful vaginal and rectal exams in the name of “science.” According to HRW, these so-called virginity exams are not just demeaning—they constitute sexual …

Last year insecurity increased manifold. Several terror attacks were reported in 2015 which killed and crippled hundreds of innocent people. Civilians remained the worst victims of the ongoing war with no end in sight. The Taliban and other fanatic groups regained strength and brought changes in their military strategy. They …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that it has smashed four terrorist networks in southern Kandahar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that its operatives succeeded to arrest 26 Taliban fighters and destroy four terrorist networks in the city of Kandahar. The …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Analysts at the monthly session of the Rana Think Tank said that the National Unity Government (NUG) would collapse if it could not to bring reforms as the nation’s patience was at boiling point. The analysts said that people would be forced to launch mass protests …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: 120 Taliban militants had renounced violence by joining the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process in the north-west Faryab province on Monday. They joined peace drive after they were surrounded by the army two days ago in a military operation commanded by First Vice President Gen. …

AT-KABUL: Twenty-eight Taliban insurgents including four commanders were killed in an operation going on, while hundreds of people have left their villages due the fear of war in Pashtun Kot district of north-western Faryab province, local officials said Monday. The spokesman for 209 Shaheen Military Corps Maj. Reza Rezaee said …

AT-KABUL: During a meeting at his office, the former President Hamid Karzai on Monday discussed issues of mutual interests with the special envoy of Russian Federation for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Zamir Kabulov, and Russian ambassador to Kabul, Alexander Mantytskiy. In the meeting, both sides discussed different regional and national issues …