Afghanistan Times

With deadly violence spiking around the country, a slight hope has once again emerged for its de-escalation or hopefully for its end as the Afghan and Taliban peace teams have returned to the negotiation table. The resumption of talks after a long pause, is taking as a good omen that …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 18 new infections of coronavirus and one death in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health said Tuesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,664 cases around the country. The new cases were recorded out of …

Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The world today is caught between a pandemic of the century and momentous changes never seen in the last one hundred years. Human society is going through the most serious pandemic in the past century, and the world economy is witnessing the worst recession …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the western Ghor province said that drug dealers intentionally seek to deteriorate the security situation in the province in order to pave the ground for drug trafficking. Based on a survey conducted by the National Statistics and Information Authority there is 46 percent increase in …

AT News KABUL: Money exchangers have ended their working strike in Kabul on Monday after meeting President Ashraf Ghani, promised to meet their problems. Presidential Palace Deputy Spokesman, Dawa Khan Minapal said that the money exchangers had met with the President Ghani on Sunday evening, and they were convinced to …

AT News KABUL: Four miners were killed and three others received injuries after a gold mine collapsed in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local officials said on Monday. Provincial Police Spokesman, Sanaullah Rohani said that the incident occurred on Sunday evening in Raghistan district of the province. The wounded people …

AT News KABUL: First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh claims that “special Pakistani drills” are used in terrorist attacks carried out in Kabul. “We have evidences that Taliban have received special drills from Pakistan and place them in Toyota vehicles to blast on the road sides,” Saleh claimed on Monday. He …

“Mom, please wake up, mom please get up,” the two kids, one of them covered in blood, were heard screaming – their video broke the hearts of millions of people in Afghanistan. AT News KABUL: People in the capital city were so angry when they saw a video went viral …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs says that Mawllavi Mujeeb Rahman Ansari’s recent remarks pave the ground for flaring up the war against “innocent people” in Afghanistan, and termed it as “enemy propaganda”. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that such statements were in …

AT News KABUL: Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, leader of Jonbesh-e-Milli (National Movement), a political party, says an interim government was acceptable to maintain the current governing system. Earlier, other political figures had spoken about the interim administration since the intra-Afghan negotiations began in September in Qatar. “If this system is …