Afghanistan Times

KABUL — As he listened, Wali Mohammad Darwazi’s worst fears came true. His 23-year-old son, Mohammad Rafi, had vanished two months before with several former classmates from Kabul University. Now, Darwazi was on the phone with one of the classmates, whom he had reached in Syria. “Rafi has been martyred,” …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani extended the term of the current parliament and said lawmakers would continue working until results of a new election were announced. The five year long mandate of the current parliament is set to be ended on June 22, but the election, scheduled for April, was delayed …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan will soon sign a trilateral transit and trade agreement which will enhance economic and trade relations between the three regional countries, Pakistani media reported on Friday. Accrding to Tajikistan Ambassador, Sherali S Jononov, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India will invest at least $9 million to build Charikar water supply system in central Parwan province which will be completed within a year, local official said on Friday. Quoted by Pajhwok Afghan News, the director of technical services, Himat said completion of the project will fill …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: More than a thousand terrorists have gathered along bordering areas of Afghanistan and Tajikistan which is said that will pose security threat for both South Asian countries. According to Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency, the issue was shared by a top-rank security official from Tajikistan during a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Iranian ambassador to Kabul, Mohammad Reza Bahrami, has rejected the the claim that the government of Iran is supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan by providing them cash and weapons. The Wall Street Journal the other day quoted Bahrami, as saying that they had not supported the Taliban …

AT-JALALABAD: Hundreds of residents of eastern Nangarhar province took to streets to protest against week-long power breakdown. The protestors blocked Kabul-Jalalabad highway for several hours. They blamed the government for turning its blind eye to the issue. According to sources, militants in Uzbin area have cut electricity transmission lines which …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Officials in Ghazni province have adopted a whole unique way to fight corruption as they shaved heads of two lecturers. According to a news report published by Khaama Press on Friday, the provincial Attorney General Office (AGO) officials have launched probe into allegations leveled against the two …

AT-KABUL: The US drone strike killed eight militants in the eastern Nangarhar province, said an official in the province. Hazrat Husain Mashriqiwal, spokesman for Nangarhar police, said that the US forces carried out the airstrike in Mohmand Dara district of the province. He added that the strike targeted two vehicles …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to Azerbaijan said that Afghanistan had the opportunity to join the important Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project which will help the country to speed up the rebuilding process. Mohammad Taqi Khalili told Trend News Agency, that Afghanistan could join the railway project through the Lapis Lazuli …