Afghanistan Times
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A 22-year-old Afghan man who is suspected of having stabbed seven men in a town in southern Sweden, leaving three of them in critical condition, was remanded in pretrial custody for at least two weeks on Friday. The Eksjo District Court added that there was a …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 13 New Cases of COVID-19 in Past 24 Hours
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 13 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the ministry of public health said on Friday. These cases come out of 1,430 suspected samples. Three patients have fully recovered n from COVID-19 during the same period of time. Afghanistan now has …
Read More »Religious Scholar Killed in Kabul
VP Saleh Says his Assassination Plot Foiled AT News KABUL: A religious scholar has been shot dead in an unknown armed men attack in Kabul just in some minutes after the First Vice President Amrullah Saleh talked about failed assassination plot to kill him. Kabul Police confirmed that Faiz Mohammad …
Read More »Commando Forces Rescue 34 Hostages from Taliban Captivity
AT News KABUL: The Afghan Commando Forces have freed 34 hostages, including military personnel during a night raid in western Herat province, officials said on Wednesday. They were released in an operation conducted by the Special Forces of the Afghan Commando against a Taliban prison in Korocha village of Adraskan …
Read More »Peace in Obnoxious with Ghani’s Presence in Power: Massoud
AT News KABUL: A senior member of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, Ahmad Zia Massoud says that peace would not be ensured if President Ashraf Ghani remained in power. Speaking to a news conference on Wednesday, Massoud backed the proposals of a participatory government in which the Taliban group could also offer …
Read More »Karzai Condemns Night Raid in Paghman
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned a night raid launched in the Arghandi area, Paghman district of Kabul province, in which three civilians were killed. The former president denounced the attack as a clear cruelty against the people of Afghanistan. In a statement, Karzai said Wednesday that …
Read More »Moscow Likely to Host Intra-Afghan Talks’ Next Rounds
AT News KABUL: Moscow will likely replace Doha for hosting the next rounds of the ongoing intra-Afghan negotiations, a Russian diplomat said on Wednesday. “Despite reports on restarting of meetings about peace by the negotiating teams after a 45-day lull, we need to acknowledge that there is still an impasse …
Read More »Khalilzad discussed participatory Govt in meetings with Afghan politicians
AT News KABUL: The United States envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad who is in Kabul, has offered his new plan about the Afghan solution to the government and political figures of Afghanistan, an official at the US department of state said. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity, …
Read More »Targeted-Killings of Journalists Threaten Free Media in Afghanistan
These attacks serve one purpose to spread fear and limit the freedom of speech – these evil designs of the anti-media elements must fail By Basir Media is one of the main elements of a democratic society. It reveals and probes truths naturally and impartially. The poisonous circles in a …
Read More »Editorial: A New Idea Floats to End War
The U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad visited Kabul and met with Afghan leaders, almost all key and influential figures with aim to discuss new steps for accelerating the peace process, but this time with new approaches and a new plan. Indeed his full intention was to resume discussion …
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