Afghanistan Times

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in its report said that due to limited access to judicial system, women victim of domestic violence inevitably used traditional mediation rather than court adjudication in resolving their cases. The report titled “Justice through the Eyes of Afghan …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Legal adviser to the Afghan president on Sunday said that despite spending millions of US dollars in past 13 years over the capacity building programs for women, the projects have failed to empower women. Addressing a conference here, Abdul Ali Mohammadi said that economic status of women …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Hundreds of civil society activists on Sunday took out to the streets and staged peaceful demonstration to give vent to their anger over brutal massacre of innocent people in Jalalabad City. Condemning the deadly suicide blast, they said that killing of the people could not be justified …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Norwegian and Indonesian officials have agreed to strengthen cooperation on Afghanistan. The triangular cooperation will help the Afghan government to overcome different challenges and speed up the development process. According to Jakarta Post, an Indonesian newspaper, the agreement was announced on the sidelines of the commemoration of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Since highways are getting insecure and passengers are being kidnapped, residents of Zabul province called on the government on Sunday to ramp up security measures along leading highways particularly Kabul-Kandahar road. Commuters face a great threat following a marked surge in militant attacks on passengers on highways, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 20 people were wounded in a clash between two parties over land dispute in Balkh province, official sources said. Chief of the provincial council Mohammad Ibrahim Khair said the clash took place on Sunday morning in Dash-e-Shadian area of the provincial capital, Mazar-e-Sharif. He …

MEHTARLAM: Security officials detained a group of militants in eastern Laghman province, thwarting a looming terror bid, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Sunday. In a statement, the NDS said that Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and the spy service in a joint operation detained …

KABUL: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that his country and neighboring Afghanistan have agreed on intelligence and security cooperation as part of efforts to combat illicit drugs trafficking and terrorism, Iranian Media reports Sunday. In a joint press conference with his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in Tehran, Rouhani …

They did it for the first time. And their attack was really horrific. It shook the brain of the security apparatus as well as the nation. Now we are faced with a double whammy. When we were desperately yearning the Taliban must quit violence, here came another devil—Daesh (the ISIS). …

By Dr Florance Ebrahimi In a major assault on the Afghan security forces Taliban killed, wounded or kidnapped at least 33 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Jurm district of north-eastern Badakhshan province. Northern Province of Badakhshan has been relatively peaceful as compared to other unstable and war …