Afghanistan Times

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: A new global study by Transparency International has given Afghanistan third position for in 2015. The Kabul-based Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), local partner for the organization, said Wednesday that Afghanistan scored just 11 points out of 100 and reached to rank 166 out of 168 countries …

AT-KABUL: At least 42 Taliban militants have been killed and 32 injured in a series of operations launched by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in different provinces, security officials said Wednesday. “Afghan National Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) launched joint operations …

AT-KABUL: At least seven members of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group and three Taliban militants were detained by the security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said on Wednesday. Provincial police Chief Fazl Ahmad Sherzad said: “We arrested the militants in Kot and Haska Mina districts along with their …

Every country on this planet knows that Afghanistan is the worst victim of foreign influence, terrorism and extremism. Afghans are paying the cost for the war that has been imposed by the neighbors and world powers on them. It has been more than three decades but there is no end …

The mystery about the identity of the boy in the homemade football shirt that enchanted the internet appears to have been solved. BBC Trending has been told that the child who has become known as “Messi’s biggest fan” is actually five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi from a rural area in Afghanistan. This …

Tens of thousands of Afghans left the country last year for Europe and thousands of others are either on their way or planning for the difficult and dangerous trip. Even the cold weather cannot prevent them. These people are from different categories of age, sex, urban, rural, poor, rich, educated …

AT-KABUL: The deputy chief of public health department in Nangarhar province said on Tuesday that the health teams failed to vaccinate 34,000 children, under age of five, against polio. Dr Muqadesa Meraj said that last year 62,000 children were deprived of polio vaccination. In 2015, the vaccination teams failed to …

AT-KABUL: Urging Pakistan to resolve all outstanding disputes with Afghanistan and India, Chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan on Tuesday said that peace was impossible to achieve without having friendly relations with the neighboring countries. Addressing a ceremony in connection with the death anniversary of his …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Afghanistan Protection and Stability Council (APSC), the country’s major opposition party, called on the National Unity Government to take practical steps for protection of journalists and freedom of speech. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, the spokesman of APSC Massoud Trishtwal said that journalists …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that six terror groups were busted in different provinces within the past two weeks. In a press statement issued here, the intelligence agency said that its operatives have successfully broken up six terror groups during crackdowns in Logar, Kandahar, Helmand, …