Afghanistan Times

  By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: To improve agricultural productivity and profitability, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) has laid foundation stone of 13 agricultural laboratories here on Tuesday. Construction of the laboratories will complete within next one year at a total cost of one million USD, provided by the World …

AT-KABUL: The provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP) Afrasiab Khattak said that the report about the death of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah is part of a campaign in Pakistan to externalize terrorist problem. Pakistani media claimed that Fazlullah was killed in a US drone strike in …

AT-KABUL: At least 12 Taliban militants were killed and five others injured as Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) widens crackdowns on the insurgents. Ministry of Defense in a media statement on Tuesday said that Afghan National Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) launched …

KABUL: A cop defected to the Taliban has killed 10 policemen in a remote check-post in southern Uruzgan province, an official told Afghanistan Times. “Last night, the infiltrator opened fire on his ten fellow policemen and killed all of them, before joining the Taliban in Chinarto district of Uruzgan province,” …

Daesh, also known as Islamic State, controls around a third of Syria and Iraq. The terrorist group has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. It has also destroyed historical sites, beheaded people and slaved young girls and children. Daesh evil tentacles in Afghanistan are seen in …

KABUL: A two-day meeting on peace and stability in Afghanistan in Doha has called for an immediate end to military confrontation mustvia political cooperation within a legitimate framework. Organized by the Canadian Nobel Peace Award-winning NGO Pugwash, the non-official event on January 23-24 was attended by approximately 55 participants, who …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said its operatives arrested seven terrorists in the southeastern Logar province. “Intelligence operatives arrested the rebels in a joint operation with national army and police in Azra district,” it said in a statement. Three caches of ammunitions were seized in the district, in …

KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai on Monday flew to China to attend a conference on the Afghan peace process, his office said. “The former president was formally invited by the Shanghai Institute for International Studies to attend the peace conference,” his spokesman Yousuf Sahar said. He said Karzai would speak …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Radio-Television Union (ARTU) on Monday strongly condemned the attack on Kabora production staff, asking the government to form a special unit for ensuring media security across the country. “The media outlets call on the government to establish a special police unit to ensure their security …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP) called terrorism the common threat to both Pakistan and Afghanistan, urging Islamabad to pave grounds for a joint “offensive” with Kabul in a bid to eliminate terrorism in the region. Calling the terrorists as enemies to the two countries, the party secretary …