Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: A delegation consisting of government officials and political figures left Wednesday for Russia to participate in a peace meeting scheduled to be held in Moscow. A delegation from Taliban militants are also going to participate in the meeting planned to be held on Thursday. Abdullah Abdullah, head …

AT News KABUL: President Ghani’s adviser and representative for Pakistan Umer Daudzai says a “completely impartial government” would be one of the options, adding that Taliban do not want an interim and participatory administration. “Afghanistan has its owner and nobody can impose a decision on this country,” Daudzai said Wednesday …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 28 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths in the past 24 hours across the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak has reached to 56,044 around the country. The new cases come positive out of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The U.S. President Joe Biden says that it will be “tough” for the U.S. to meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan but that the complete drawdown won’t take much longer. The deadline to end America’s longest war six weeks from now was …

By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The 25th February 2021 was a special day for the Chinese people. At a grand gathering to mark the nation’s poverty alleviation accomplishments and honour model poverty fighters, Chinese President Xi Jinping solemnly declared a complete victory in the fight against poverty as …

AT News KABUL: The U.S. Forces in Afghanistan have conducted airstrikes on the Taliban hideouts in the southern Kandahar province. The U.S. Forces Spokesman, Sonny Leggett said in a tweet on Wednesday that the strikes were carried out in Spinboldak and Zhari districts of Kandahar within the past 48 hours. …

                                                Summary by Matin Royeen Ph.D Introduction:  In the past forty years, the Afghan people have paid a very heavy price due to protracted violent conflict.  The bloody Communist coup of 1978 followed by ten years of former Soviet invasion in December of 1979 and the brutal civil war caused …

Afghanistan Seeks Continued Regional Support to Durable Peace AT News KABUL: The government has formed a delegation consisting of 16 people to participate in the Moscow meeting planned to be held on the peace process in Afghanistan. The meeting is slated for Thursday (March 18). The Afghan government’s delegation is …

AT News KABUL: Journalists in the relatively secure province of Bamiyan in the center of Afghanistan express concerns over what they say “restrictions in access to information”. In a resolution issued Tuesday, they called on the local government not to spare sharing information with the media based on the information …

AT News KABUL: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is warning of bad consequences if the U.S. and the international donors cut aid to Afghanistan. “Eighty percent of Afghanistan’s budget is funded by the U.S. and the (other international) donors,” said John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector to …