Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Second Deputy of Reconciliation Council, Assadullah Saadati calls the ceasefire and a post-peace governing system would be challenging issues to be discussed in the peace negotiations. In a session held Monday by the youth representatives, Saadati said that cease fire would be the top of government’s agenda …

AT News KABUL: A civilian lost his life in a latest suicide bombing outside a mosque in Paghman district of Kabul, the capital city, police confirmed. The blast occurred outside Bolsan Mosque in the district, a spokesman for Kabul Police, Ferdaws Faramarz said. One civilian was killed in the attack, …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan Journalist Center (AJC) has expressed its deepest concerns on the decision made by the government to remove the spokesmen for the provincial governors. The journalists called the scheme in contrast with the constitution that could prevent the media from accessing information. Earlier, a joint statement of …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 211 new positive cases of coronavirus and 15 fatalities in the past 24 hours throughout the country, said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Monday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 50,888 cases around the country. The …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah chairman of the reconciliation council is in Tajikistan’s capital city of Dushanbe where he met with Tajik officials discussing the ongoing peace efforts in Afghanistan. Abdullah’s office said on Monday that he met Taher Zakerzadah, Tajikistan’s parliament speaker, discussing peace in Afghanistan, bilateral relations and …

AT News KABUL: At least 29 Taliban militants, including two Chechnya terrorists, were killed and ten others were wounded during latest military operations conducted by the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar, Helmand and Logar provinces. The operations conducted in the last 24 hours, the defense ministry said on Monday …

Kabul has hit by a wave of deadly violence in the recent months in the wake of peace efforts to end the long fatal conflict AT News KABUL: A bomb blast that rocked Kabul, the capital city on Sunday morning killed at least nine people, the Interior Ministry said. The …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed condolences over the demise of Hajji Mohammad Karim Shah Khan, a tribal elder from Kandahar province. Karzai called Khan as a home-loving and an honest patriotic person to the country who served for strengthening national unity. The former president called Khan’s death …

AT News KABUL: Sima Samar, state minister for human rights wasa dismissed from her job by President Ghani. She confirmed her dismissal from office on Sunday, saying that the whole ministry was dissolved. Mrs. Samar said that her dismissal was proposed by the administrative office of the president and was …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns of increasing number of Afghans in need to humanitarian aids in 2021, saying that half of the country’s population is already needy to the aids. The Office has estimated Afghan population 40 million, while other …