Afghanistan Times

Nadeem Alizai: Comment KABUL:  Officials in the public health ministry proudly provide data about cancer patients in the world but when one ask them about data regarding Afghans suffering from the deadly disease, they become down in the mouth. Absence of complete and correct data raises some serious questions such …

Fourteen years, Afghanistan started off a journey that many believed would soon stop and the country will see the Taliban back in power within no time. But it didn’t happen. Afghanistan made a tremendous journey from being a completely failed state to a country with signs of change and potentials …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC) insecurity has battered tourism industry over the past few years. The acting Minister of the MoIC, Musadeq Khalili, told Azadi Radio that around 700 tourists have visited historical sites in Afghanistan this year. Khalili described insecurity and lack of proper …

AT Monitoring-KABUL: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expressed its concerns over sharp increase in Afghan refugees’ repatriation from Pakistan. It said that thousands of Afghan families are repatriating to Afghanistan to escape harassment. Following the terror attack on a military-run school in Peshawar on 16 December, 2014, Pakistan has …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The production capacity of Ghori Cement Factory is dwindling as the factory is faced with lack of electricity for past week, said officials, criticizing the government for inattention of local products. Chief Executive of Afghan Investment Company, Islamuddin Ahmadzai, said the president has several times stressed that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Militants have blown up a girls school and a health clinic in eastern Kunar province, said official on Saturday. Kunar police chief, Abdul Habib Sayidkhil, said the incidents took place in Nari district the other night. He said that a number of unknown gunmen blown up a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Officials in Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said preliminary work on transferring electricity to Ghazni, Logar and Paktia provinces has kicked off and the provinces would get power supply within two years. The officials said an agreement would be signed with Turkmenistan officials within a month to …

KABUL: The Attorney General Office (AGO) on Saturday rejected the recent media reports about sending a list including names of the AGO attorneys charged with corruption to the president. Spokesman to the AGO, Abdul Basir Azizi, in a press conference denied sending new list of “corrupt attorneys” to the Presidential …

AT-KABUL: At least seven armed Taliban fighters were killed in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Afghan National Police in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) conducted clearance operations against insurgents in …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that intelligence personnel succeeded to discover and confiscate huge cache of ammunition in Logar and Ghazni provinces. In a press statement issued here the spy agency said that in separate crackdowns against terrorists the NDS discovered and seized large cache …