Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: The Meshrano Jirga or Senate on Sunday session asked the government to immediately appoint a new mayor for Kabul city. Senator Farhad Sakhi told members of the Meshrano Jirga that there was no person to be held responsible for the uncertainty of the Kabul city. “Since acting mayor was …

RECORD numbers of migrants have burst through international borders this year as the number of ‘forcibly displaced’ people reaches 60m for the first time ever. LONDON: Experts say the global refugee crisis has led to there being one migrant for every 122 people on earth. The latest figures for migrants …

Even as India celebrated five years of being polio-free on Wednesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polio vaccination centre in neighbouring Pakistan and killed 15 people, mostly cops, there to accompany health workers setting out to give children polio drops. India’s last wild polio case was reported …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An Indian citizen Ayaz Sultan, who disappeared on October 30, 2015, has purportedly joined the Islamic State, also known as Daesh group in Afghanistan, The Hindu an Indian newspaper reported on Sunday. The 23-year-old Indian citizen Ayaz Sultan has gone missing from his hometown, Malwani area in …

AT-KABUL: At least 13 civilians have been killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted house of an Afghan official on Sunday in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said. The bomber targeted a meeting in third police district of Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar today morning. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) donated food packages to needy residents of seven districts of Kabul province. The food items were wheat, oil, bean, sugar and tea cost around 6.8 million Afghanis. Mohammad Naim Dindar, Secretary General of Afghan Red Crescent Society said that QRC donated …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) claims that the international financial supports for extraction of Afghan mines were considerably ineffective. Earlier, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a report about ineffectiveness supports of TFBSO and USAID assistance and said that $488 million cooperation in …

AT-KABUL: The counter-narcotics police discovered and confiscated over 62,000 kilograms of hashish in Kandahar province, interior ministry said Saturday. “The hashish was seized during an operation in the Zherai district of,” it said in a statement, adding that the hashish was set on fire in the presence of local officials. …

AT-KABUL: At least 94 Taliban fighters were killed and 24 others wounded in different offensives in the past 24 hours, the security organs said Saturday. “Afghan National Army in collaboration with Afghan National Police and National Directorate of Security conducted joint operations against insurgents in different areas of Nangarhar, Laghman, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmad Shekib Mustaghani, on Saturday said that Afghanistan is expecting positive outcome from the quadrilateral meeting held between representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China. Hinting to the commitment promised by the four countries in the quadrilateral meeting, …