Afghanistan Times
AT-KABUL: Unknown armed men killed a policeman and his spouse in Shuhada district of Badakhshan province, police sources said on Sunday. The provincial police chief, Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari, told media that unidentified assailants broke into the house of Noor Rehman and opened fire on the cop and his wife, …
Read More »British ambassador calls on Rabbani
AT-Kabul: British Ambassador to Kabul, Karen Pierce, called on the Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani and discussed different issues of mutual interest. Rabbani in the meeting with Ms Karen Pierce thanked Britain for the continued support to Afghanistan, and briefed the ambassador on Thursday’s visit of high-level Afghan delegation to …
Read More »Kabul PC members meet Masoud, discuss public issues
AT-KABUL: Members of the Kabul Provincial Council (PC) called on the special envoy of the president on reforms and good governance, Ahmad Zia Masoud, and discussed pressing public issues. In the meeting held the other day, the Kabul PC members underlined increasing unemployment rate, poverty, kidnappings, killings, and weak economy …
Read More »Independence Day preparations in full swing
AT-KABUL: With the Independence Day round the corner, the nationalist fervor is gripping the atmosphere and preparations for celebrating the national festival are picking up in the private and state institutions. Preparations for the 96th Independence Day in Afghanistan has begun in the different places of the country. Major cities …
Read More »British special forces back in Afghanistan tackling Taliban, Daesh terrorists
Elite SAS, SBS and US special forces taking part in military operations almost every night as insurgent forces close in on the capital Kabul British special forces are back at war in Afghanistan, fighting both Islamic State terrorists and the Taliban. Just a year after David Cameron said the war …
Read More »Why Afghans won’t mourn death of Hamid Gul, former ISI chief and ‘father of the Taliban’
The former chief of Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), the powerful intelligence agency of Pakistan, died of brain hemorrhage in Pakistani resort town of Murree late on Saturday. He was 79. General Hamid Gul, a controversial military figure and protégé of former military dictator of Pakistan General Zia ul-Haq, led the …
Read More »Indonesian passenger plane crashes in Papua region
Villagers say they have found the wreckage of a plane which earlier went missing with 54 people aboard. Villagers in eastern Indonesia’s Papua region say they have found the wreckage of a plane which went missing in the province with 54 people aboard, an official has said. “The plane has …
Read More »Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada killed in terror attack
Punjab home minister Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack on his political office in Shadi Khan village. His death was confirmed by Dr Syed Elahi, advisor to the chief minister of Punjab. Several others died in the bomb blast. The impact of the explosion caused the …
Read More »“HERO” AFGHAN REFUGEE SAVES HUNGARIAN HOMELESS MAN’S LIFE IN BUDAPEST
A 16-year-old Afghan refugee sleeping rough in the Hungarian capital Budapest has been hailed a hero for saving the life of a homeless man in front of a soup kitchen in Bérkocsis utca, District VIII, in the early hours of Thursday afternoon. The drunken, homeless man was injured when he …
Read More »Ayman al-Zawahiri’s audio message and Afghan Taliban
Afghanistan still remains in the throes of a bitter conflict. And the bitterness led to a new wave of tensions between Kabul and Islamabad. When the Pakistan-brokered peace talks faltered after the death reports of Mullah Omar and the situation turned more tense after a deadliest spate of attacks in Kabul, now foreign press …
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