Afghanistan Times

Kabul says it has no negative impact as 96pc operations conducted by Afghan security forces. Taliban welcome the move as good advancement and practical measure AT News KABUL: The drawdown in the number of the foreign forces does not put a negative impact on the war in Afghanistan, authorities said …

By Jamshid Fedaie I found out after collecting information from different sources that a false file and trial of former mines and petroleum minister, Wahidullah Shahrani has had different dimensions: In September, 2018, the Supreme Court asked Wahidullah Shahrani to go to the court. Shahrani met Zaman Snagari, Barat Ali …

AT News KABUL: The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads is an article published in “The Intercept”. Its writer Andrew Quilty, concluded a research on the CIA backed Afghan unit and its American partners’ operations that are sometimes directed at health clinics, madrassa dormitories, or civilian homes, resulting in killings of civilians …

AT News KABUL: A number of unknown gunmen have shot two police officers dead in Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar province. Provincial Governor Spokesman, Ziaulhaq Amerkhail said that the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon in Narenjbagh crossroad of Jalalabad city. The gunmen were riding a motorbike, he added. …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 46 new positive cases of coronavirus and three fatalities in the last 24 hours throughout the country, said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Saturday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic, has now reached to 53,981 across the country. The …

AT News KABUL: At least 21 Taliban insurgents have been killed and seven others were wounded during latest crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the last 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday. Taliban planned to attack over Afghan security checkpoints in Zherai district of …

AT News KABUL: The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads is an article published in “The Intercept”. Its writer Andrew Quilty, concluded a research on the CIA backed Afghan unit and its American partners’ operations that are sometimes directed at health clinics, madrassa dormitories, or civilian homes, resulting in killings of civilians …

The US has reduced the number of its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500. This is as part of outgoing U.S. President, Donald Trump’s plan as to what he describes, “Ending the endless war”. The plan has been functionalized despite a congressional prohibition of the move and rising levels of violence …

Kabul, and Islamabad need to focus on shared infrastructures, such as building roads like the Peshawar-Kabul and Quetta-Kandahar motorways, and railways, like connections between South Asia and Central Asia which would go through Afghanistan and Pakistan benefiting the whole region, and making Afghanistan a key connectivity hub. By Farhad Naibkhel …

The government has recently decided to be serious in maintaining and reconstructing some historical sites and monuments which is good news since the rich culture of Afghanistan had been almost ignored due to war pressures and other problems the government and people of Afghanistan are confronting. The ministry of information …