Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: A number of female students of Badakhshan University said that Taliban prevented them from entering the university because of their clothing and claims that some Taliban militants beat them. Today these students demonstrated and chanted in front of Badakhshan University. One of these students told local media in …

AT Kabul: Taliban Ministry of Education announced that the charity foundation “IDF” of Turkey is going to build schools in five provinces of Afghanistan. The memorandum of understanding for the construction of these schools was signed between Habibullah Agha Minister of Education of the Taliban, and Sheikh Mohammad Turan, the …

AT Kabul: The celebration of Halloween in South Korea left nearly 300 people dead and injured due to crowding and trampling. The Reuters reported on Saturday night, that 153 people were killed and 150 others were injured during this year’s Halloween festival in South Korea. So far, the main cause …

AT Kabul: More than a year after the closing of girls’ schools, a number of students and women’s rights activists gathered in Kabul to protest this decision and asked the interim government to take action in this regard. Protesters gathered on Saturday, in front of Maleka Soraya School on the …

AT Kabul: Joe Biden, the president of the United States, condemned the attack on house of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, and called it disgusting. Paul Pelosi, the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was hit by an assailant’s hammer at …

AT News Kabul: The price of coal, and home heating materials, has surged in Kabul as winter approaches amid a drastic humanitarian situation affecting more than half of the country’s population. Meanwhile the Islamic Emirate has formed a committee headed by the Economic Deputy Prime Minister to control the fuel …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in a phone conversation with the US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, addressed the need for dialogue among Afghans in the current situation. Karzai tweeted that they talked about the continuation of humanitarian aid from the US, and stressed on …

Local sources say that at least ten people were injured as a result of a bomb explosion in the mosque of Sheikh Mohammad Rouhani in the fifth district of Kabul on Friday. Abdul Nafee Takour, the spokesman of the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior, confirmed the incident and told the media …

AT Kabul: Four manufacturing factories, set up at a cost of $50 million, were inaugurated on Wednesday in Herat’s industrial park, local officials said. Nouruddin Azizi, Minister of Industry and Trade of interim government, said that despite claims of capital flying the country, more investments are made in than ever …

AT Kabul: Afghan-American activists have expressed indignation after reports suggested that a US Marine and his wife abducted a baby girl during the chaotic American military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year, reports said. The baby girl, barely 7-month-old at the time, had been pulled from the rubble after …