Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 50 schools which were previously closed due to insecurity in the Chardara, Aliabad, Dashti-i-Archi and Gurtapa districts of the northern Kunduz province have been reopened. These schools were reopened after marked improvement in security situation in the province, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Karim …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  As many as 22 Afghans have been detained by police in Pakistan’s Punjab province during a campaign conducted by the government of Pakistan against undocumented refugees in the country. According to local media outlets, the Afghan refugees were held in Kot Momin area of Sargodha district on …

“Government shall not talk to minions of the United States and Pakistan. Peace process will not yield positive results. The bloodshed will continue without any pause as the US and Pakistan want to destabilize the region,”—SPA By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hundreds of Afghans, including women, young and elderly people, on Sunday …

In a shocking incident, which bears testimony to how insecure Indian capital city has become for foreign women, a 23-year-old Afghan woman was sexually assaulted at a leading New Delhi hospital. The victim, who was attending to her mother at Max Hospital in Saket area of New Delhi, was sexually …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Four Taliban insurgents were killed late Saturday night in a US drone strike in Baraki Barak district in central Logar province, official said. Maulvi Habib-u-Rahman, a senior Taliban commander, and his three associates were killed in drone attack later Saturday night in Chalozai area of the province, …

MAIMANA: Two Afghan security personnel have been killed and four others wounded as a result of internal clash and a mortar shell in Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said Sunday. The district police chief Maj. Sayed Juma said the firefight between special police units and intelligence forces …

The Afghan Taliban’s Supreme Council was not consulted over the election of a new leader following the death of founder Mullah Omar, the BBC has learned. Taliban sources said on Thursday that his deputy Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been chosen to head the militant group. But a spokesman told the BBC …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said that it has devised a draft of a 5-year strategic plan to return internally displaced people (IDPs) to their homes. The draft was presented to a session of directors of refugees and repatriation of 34 provinces. The Minister Refugees …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Daniel Fledman, during a meeting with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif, hopped that peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban would resume soon. The two men discussed regional security. Feldman appreciated Pakistan’s role in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a recently released report that the US forces in Afghanistan scrapped nearly $160 million of military equipment, which were meant to be given to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The SIGAR in its quarterly report to Congress …