Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai called upon media to play role for promoting national unity and bring positive change in the society. In a meeting with staffers of Afghanistan Times and Daily Dunia the other day, the former president said that Afghan media should devise a comprehensive policy which could strengthen …

  AT-KABUL: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, believed to be around 90-year old, breathed his last on Friday and replaced by his half-brother Salman. In a statement the royal palace said that the king died at 1:00 am local time, however did not mention cause of his death. The late king …

AT-KABUL: After a three-day by the Kurram Agency administration for Afghan refugees to leave the area, a number of elders of Afghan refugees urged the Pakistani government to avoid sending them back to Afghanistan until completion of the academic session of their children. They told Pakistani media outlets on the …

AT-KABUL: Afghan, Indian and Pakistani officials attended the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival in India where they discussed different issues including ways to strengthen ties between the three neighbors, media reports said the other day. Former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri expressed the need for a “high degree of optimism” in …

AT-KABUL: A Chinese professor who wrote the first Pashto-Chinese dictionary Che Hongcai and Chinese ambassador to Kabul Deng Xijun called on ex-President Hamid Karzai at his office on Wednesday. Che Hongcai, a 78 years old professor of Afghan languages at a university in China, granted a copy of the dictionary …

AT-KABUL: Following conflicting reports on presence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters in Afghanistan, spokesman to the ex-President Hamid Karzai said that the terrorist group operating under the label of the ISIS or Daish is the creation of Islamabad aimed to gain access to the energy-rich …

AT-KABUL: At least three tons of drugs were set ablaze in central Parwan province, said the Interior Ministry on Wednesday. The director general of the counternarcotics department at the Interior Ministry, Abdul Khalil Bakhtiar, said the drugs included heroin, hashish, opium and alcohol. He added that around 200 tons of …

KABUL: The ex-President Hamid Karzai has said that he is hopeful about the recent operations by Pakistan against terrorists, but there are no signs of change in Pakistan’s policy towards insurgents. The BBC Pashto Service on Wednesday quoted the ex-President Karzai, as saying that the situation would go better if …

KABUL: Fathiyah (name changed for protection reasons) has almost nothing, but says that she still feels rich. The mother of three lost her home and many of her possessions last year, when armed militants forced her family out of their village in northern Afghanistan’s Faryab province. The situation had become …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi: The Tap-e-Tajbeg Palace is one of the historical buildings built in 1795, in the era of Shah Zaman. Now it has been quietly changed in to a ruin due to civil wars in the capital in 1992. According to some historians Tajbeg is a Turkish word which means …