Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Italian troops to stay in Afghanistan through 2016 to combat increasing terrorism along with the coalition and Afghan forces, said the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi during at a press conference on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said that the Italian troops which serving a combat mission in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that its operatives have apprehended 11 members of the Jundullah terrorist group which is affiliated to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In addition one militant was killed in a gunfight with the NDS. A statement issued by the NDS here on …

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Tuesday expressed concern over terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, while a top Pentagon general told lawmakers the level of counter-terrorism co-operation from Islamabad has been unsatisfactory. “We are concerned about it,” Carter told members of the House Armed Services Committee when Congresswoman Susan Davis …

This is a special write up on the 42nd Death Anniversary of Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai, an epitome of Pashtuns’ rights and resistance against the British in India, and Pakistan. He was assassinated at the age of 66 by forces of intolerance in Pakistan. By Abdul Hayee Aryan: On December …

Under General Sharif, the Pakistan army is carrying out a low-intensity war against diversity of opinion. By Mohammad Taqi: Along with putting the Pakistani COAS on a pedestal, his media team was actively weeding out his detractors. Pakistan’s globetrotting Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has been peddling the …

Too much rant. Too little sense.  It looks ideas and rambling rants cluttered their brains. They speak most of the times about problems and very much little about the solutions. Then it must make any sense that we are winning against all the economic, social, political, and security evils? To …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Questioning Pakistan’s sincerity in the peace process of Afghanistan, Meshrano Jirga stressed that there must be an international guarantee that Pakistan will remain committed to Afghanistan. Fazel Hadi Muslimyar, Speaker of the Meshrano Jirga, said that peace talks with Pakistan have turned into an enigma. “We want …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance has committed to provide $4 billion USD annually for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) until 2020 year. While speaking at the NATO foreign ministerial meeting held in Brussels, he said that current commitment was until 2017 …

NEW YORK: Hitting out at Pakistan for using terrorists as “violent proxies”, Afghanistan has blamed Islamabad’s “unnecessary anxiety” over its ties with India for a sharp spike in civilian and military casualties that made 2015 the bloodiest year since 2001. “External support to the Taliban and other terrorist groups is …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Commenting on the current meeting held between President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the sidelines of the UN-sponsored climate change summit in Paris, Indian ambassador to Kabul said that if both countries want to see peace process, successful reduction in violence is …