Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government said that 200 students of the Nangarhar University had links with the Taliban, Daesh and Hekmatyar-led Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan. Leading a delegation to probe support for the militant groups by the Nangarhar varsity students, the presidential advisor Qamaruddin Shenwari told BBC that the university students who …

AT-PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and the district administration has sealed the Imam Ghazali Medical University in Peshawar. Facing uncertain future, the Afghan students asked the provincial government to reopen the university. Afghan students during a news conference in Peshawar said that their …

In a rare show of cooperation, the Afghan Taliban have allowed the government to reopen schools in territories it overran after bloody battles earlier this year. Afghan officials say they have struck an informal agreement with Taliban insurgents to reopen 51 schools in two districts of Helmand Province in southern …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Afghanistan and Pakistan opened important day-long talks on trade and economic issues on Monday. Due to tensions between the two countries over Taliban’s increasing terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, meeting of Afghan-Pak joint economic commission in August was canceled. “The issues to be discussed in the meeting include …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Resumption of peace talks would be of no use, unless Pakistan target militants on its soil, said the deputy spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani. Sayed Zafar Hashemi told Radio Azadi that Kabul would be ready for resumption of talks with the Taliban militants, only if Pakistan takes …

It is not the lack of resources but the unequal distribution of the wealth behind the vicious circle of poverty. When it comes to poverty, child labor cannot be ignored as the two are inevitably bound together. If you want to end child labor, you will have to fight poverty. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Central Statistics Organization (CSO) with financial support of the UNICEF launched a new mobile application called “Afghan Info” here on Monday in order to provide information of different governmental organizations to smart-phone users. This is the first time that Afghans can access the Central Statistics …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The First Deputy Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) Abdul Zahir Qadeer alleged the National Security Council (NSC) of supporting Daesh. Qadeer said that the NSC created obstacles for him when he launched operations against Daesh. The NSC does not provide equipment to the Afghan Local Police …

AT-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga (WJ) or Lower House of the parliament on Monday approved three agreements with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) unanimously. The OIC convention on counterterrorism includes a preface and 49 articles. The inter-governments land-locked countries agreement includes one preface and 17 articles. The OIC food security scheme …

AT-KABUL: The National Workers’ Union of Afghanistan (NWUA) on Monday criticized the government for its failure to control inflation. Criticizing the government for its failure to launch crackdown on hoarding to control rising commodities prices, the head of NWUA Marouf Qaderi said the authorities should formulate policy to control the …