Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s first vice president survived an assassination attempt with only light wounds after a bomb detonated near his traveling convoy in Kabul city on Wednesday morning. Taliban didn’t claim responsibility for the attack on Amrullah Saleh, which killed at least ten people and wounded a dozen others. …

“Now that there’s regional and international consensus on Afghanistan peace, there are attempts to sabotage the process by targeting Afghan leadership” AT News KABUL: A top government official said that the government has released 6,300 Taliban prisoners as a measure to leave no room for the Taliban to make any …

Arwin Rahi According to a 2015 Gallup poll, India was the most loved country in Afghanistan, where the former’s approval rating was at 62%.[1] Five years later, although India’s approval rating among Afghans is still high, there are indications that India’s popularity is declining. There are two main reasons for …

Corruption has been one of the major causes for the failure of Government policies throughout last eighteen years since the United States toppled the Taliban regime in 2001. In the advent of formation of Government to fill power vacuum created after the Taliban regime was toppled by the invading forces, …

The impasse hampering the intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government has seemingly been broken with the completion of the prisoner swap process between the sides but some minor technical issues still exist on the way to the historic development in terms of bringing peace to the country. …

AT News KABUL: As ratcheted-up efforts to start peace talks coalesce with rising hostilities, Afghanistan army says Taliban have been defeated in the battleground. The Afghan government and Taliban insurgents are claiming upper hand in the fighting, with intra-Afghan talks looming and violence rising in epic scale. The army is …

AT News KABUL: Amid solid preparations for intra-Afghan negotiations, Dr, Abdullah Abdullah said Tuesday that both sides will be starting direct peace talks in coming days, appealing for calm with the militant group. “We have no enemy in our homeland,” Dr. Abdullah said, “And that’s why we should end enmity …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban insurgents on Tuesday attacked on Panjshir province and took a number of local residents hostage, local officials confirmed. The clashes between the militants and security forces continuing in Abshar district of the province. Mohammad Suhrab Suhrab, district governor put the number of assailants to around …

AT News KABUL: Former Spy Chief, Rahmatullah Nabil said that the Taliban would not sit for talks with the government team until a senior member of the group was released. “I think the Taliban will not start talks in Doha till the release of Haji Basheer Noorzai,” Nabil said in …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health on Tuesday said it has registered 26 new covid-19 patients while three other patients lost their lives to the virus during the past 24 hours. These cases were recorded positive from 160 suspected samples, according to the ministry. In this period of …