Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Following the news on injury or death of their leader, Taliban on Saturday released audio message, purportedly from their Amir, to prove their leader is alive. Akhtar Muhammad Mansour in message which has been recorded over radio, dismissed the claims on his death “untrue and propaganda” by enemy, aimed …

Local media reported Saturday about treatment of Mullah Mansoor in a Karachi hospital, the port city of Pakistan. Though the reports could not be confirmed independently but had sent a wave of suspicion over motives of Pakistan. The so-called Taliban’s commander-in-chief Mullah Muhammad Akhtar Mansoor has been in the headlines …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation Development (MRRD) signed 74 development projects worth approximately $ 229 million with Community Development Councils (CDCs), here on Saturday. Funded by Asian Development Bank and Afghanistan Development Budget, the uplift projects will cover Balkh, Smangan, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Panshir, Ghor, Bamyan, Logar, Laghman, Takhar, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During his meeting with the Swedish Prime Minister the other day in Sweden, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that those Afghan asylum-seekers who are not accepted by the Swedish government would be repatriated. Issue of the Afghan illegal immigrants has been on the agenda of President Ghani …

Mayor acknowledged fuel theft by truck drivers of cleanliness department of KM Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Everyday a huge amount of waste is produced in Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul. As the city lacks trash containers in congested areas and proper waste management system, therefore, these wastes are dumped beside the roads, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Observing the International Volunteer Day in the capital Kabul on Saturday, over 200 hundreds of youth volunteers took part in cleaning two major parks and planting trees in the Ahmad Shah Baba Maina—(a township on the outskirt of the Kabul city). The campaign by Ahmad Shah Baba …

AT-KABUL: At least 33 Daesh fighters have been killed and four others wounded, in a joint operation by security forces, national directorate of security and police, in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province that lasted 24 hours. Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Husain Mashreqiwal told Afghanistan Times that Afghan national police …

“Former President Hamid Karzai condemned shell-firing in Wardak” AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has assigned a commission to investigate the recent incident of mortar shell firing in Maidan Wardak province that led to killing of 10 civilians and injured six others. According to reports, mortar shells fired …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) said that economic conference on Afghanistan, which is going to be held in Berlin, will encourage foreign investors to invest in Afghanistan. Deputy Head of the AISA, Muhammad Ebrahim Shams, told Azadi Radio that the conference will assess investment opportunities in Afghanistan. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) said that rifts among leadership of the Taliban militants have widened. The council urged the Taliban fighters to join the peace process. According to reports, the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansoor recently succumbed to his injuries. Office of the Vice …