Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations called on foreign forces to refrain from interfering in the Afghan peace talks. Addressing the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi called for strengthening international support to build a better future …

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai offered condolences over the death of veteran writer and author Azam Rahnaward Zaryab. Karzai said Friday in a statement that late Zaryab dedicated his life to serve Afghanistan’s literature and left tens of literary works behind. The former president called Zaryab’s death as …

AT News KABUL:  The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Najibullah Alikhil paid a courtesy call on the country’s Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Qureshi has congratulated the Ambassador on his appointment stating that Afghanistan and Pakistan had deep-rooted historic ties based on common religion, geography and culture. Referring to the …

China has always helped Afghanistan enhance its counter-terrorism capacity and supported Afghanistan’s efforts to fight terrorism and maintain national security, said Geng Shuang, China’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL:  China has called for international efforts to boost the Afghan peace process and to help …

Rahnaward Zaryab passed away in Kabul aged 77 – he was born in 1944 in Rika Khana area in Kabul AT News KABUL: A well-known novelist, journalist, intellectual, writer, public thinker and literary scholar Rahnaward Zaryab passed away in Kabul at a hospital on Friday morning. He was 77 years …

AT News KABUL: A man met a grisly end after his brothers killed him over a land dispute in Paghman district of Kabul province, Kabul police said on Wednesday. The police arrested two suspects, who are the victim’s siblings, said police chief spokesman Ferdows Faramarz. The suspects are under police …

Corruption has many forms and manifestation. With great wretchedness, corruption in Afghanistan is endemic and has infiltrated into all parts of the state, adversely affecting the ability of the Afghan government to maintain security and deliver basic public services. It also becomes public now, and increasingly embedded in social practices. …

AT News KABUL: The Amnesty International calls on the Afghan and Taliban negotiators to consider reduction of violence and ceasefire serious in during the peace talks. Taliban, who were expected to stop attacks on Afghan forces and civilians after signing a peace deal with the United States in February, did …

177 infections and 13 fatalities reported in the past 24 hours AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is to get the covid-19 vaccine within next seven months, health officials said on Wednesday. Afghanistan sees a little surge in the Covid-19 positive cases as 177 new infections and 13 deaths were reported in …

AT News KABUL: “We could provide some different foods for our families in the past, but this is very hard now to provide different meals,” Shima Hazrati, a teacher in Kabul city says. She believes that administration corruption is the main reason of Afghans’ miseries, saying that the people did …