Afghanistan Times

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The university lecturers Wednesday went to the street and staged protest against presidential decree over higher education law. They asked for the cancellation of the decree. The professors called the decree against civil services and higher education law and contrary to constitution. The protestors marched from Kabul …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Interior Minister Noorulhaq Ulumi has sacked some police officers over the two security incidents took place in Kabul, the ministry said in a statement. “The officials were dismissed over a rocket attack near Italian embassy and torching a girls’ school in Kabul city earlier this week,” it …

AT-KABUL: A large number of Taliban militants were killed and injured during an operation launched by the security forces Tuesday night in southern Helmand province, an official said Wednesday. “The operation was launched with cooperation of NATO air force in Gereshk, Marjah, Sangin and Khanshin districts in which different types …

AT-KABUL: Scores of people staged demonstration Wednesday in Kabul to protest government over the growing insecurity in the eastern Nangarhar province. Protesters said insecurity had a significant increase in Nangarhar, threatening people’s lives. Mirwais Amarkhel, a protester said that people were cruelly killed by armed insurgents while the government officials …

AT-KABUL: President of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan claimed Wednesday that foreign intervention was the main reason of terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said that the exploitation of the establishments of the two countries were part of foreign agenda. In a statement,Khan said that the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During a media interaction at the Pentagon, Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, Brigadier General Wilson Shoffner, had praised the capability of Afghan security forces. Taliban were unable to hold ground in Afghanistan as Afghan security forces got better in their performances …

AT-KABUL: Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has strongly condemned the terror attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda. Denouncing the attack in strongest possible terms, Hamid Karzai said that such attacks are against Islamic teachings and human values, adding that attacks on people living on both sides of the …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and Chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan strongly condemned the terror attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda (BKUC) on Wednesday. In a telephonic conversation, both Hamid Karzai and Asfandyar Wali Khan termed attack on the university an attack on …

Terror attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda has proved once again that war against terrorism and extremism in the region has utterly failed and the militants are still enjoying support. The groups that were termed “strategic assets” have gone gory. The godless militants have killed at least 21 …

KABUL: Across the Durand Line and in other parts of the world, on Wednesday Afghans have observed the 28th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also widely known as Bacha Khan. Born in 1890, in the town of Utmanzai in what was formerly known as the ‘North West Frontier …