Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkey plans to host an Afghan peace conference in Istanbul in April, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, ahead of a deadline for a US troop withdrawal. Though Mr. Cavusoglu did not specify the date, but a source told Afghanistan Times that the conference would …

AT News KABUL: Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan (NAI) is accusing the government of escaping its responsibility to investigate cases related to the killings of journalists. NAI accused the intelligence organizations for not being able to investigate the cases of journalists-killings. The CEO of NAI, Mujeeb Khalwatgar in a press …

Former President Hamid Karzai saddened by her demise AT News KABUL: A female lawmaker representing Kunduz province, Fatima Aziz passed away due to an illness, the head of the parliament’s secretariat Abdul Qadir Zazai said on Friday. She was 47 and was suffering from cancer for almost a year. According …

Hopes High on Turkey Meeting to End War By Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: In the wake of the U.S.’s new proposal for the Afghan peace process and formation of the next government system, some top anonymous sources in the government talked about a senior meeting similar to the Bonn-Conference to …

AT News KABUL: At least 78 Taliban rebels have been killed and 49 others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, defense officials said on Wednesday. The Afghan security forces supported by Afghan Air …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 23 new COVID-19 infections across the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,917 around the country. According to the ministry the new cases …

AT News KABUL: The Center for Protection of Afghan Women Journalists (CPAWJ) says they have received and registered more than 100 cases of violence against women journalists in the past one year in 20 provinces. Journalism is a risky job in Afghanistan, but it is believed to be more difficult …

Such attacks have had a devastating impact on Afghanistan’s vulnerable civic space, press freedom, and related democratic rights AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) and 40 other civil society organizations from around the globe, in a letter to the UNSC and UNAMA, highlight the wave of journalists’ killings …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan ministry of education says schoolgirls under the age 12 are not allowed to sing in public ceremonies where men attend. The ministry said in a statement on the social media on Wednesday that reads ban of schoolgirls less than 12 years cannot sing in public …

AT News KABUL: Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, Head of the Negotiation Team of Afghanistan and some members of the negotiation team met with Deborah Lyons, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, in Doha. At the beginning of the meeting, the head of the negotiation team spoke about the recent developments …