Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The U.S. envoy for Afghan peace is facing backlash for failing to curb violence with his peace effort, as the Taliban is expanding by leaps and bounds. The Afghan Senate on Monday said the United States should press the Taliban more to make them relent and engage …

AT News KABUL: The government of Afghanistan has said to release the remaining prisoners of the Taliban but in condition if the group adopts practical measures toward reduction of violence to help facilitate the long-awaited intra-Afghan talks. So far over 2,700 Taliban inmates were freed form Afghan custody as part …

AT News KABUL: Afghan National Police have discovered and seized 95kg opium during a fresh crackdown in southwestern Nimroz province. Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) cell carried out an operation in Darwishk village of Kong district, in which discovered and confiscated 95kg opium, said a statement issued by the Ministry of …

AT News KABUL: Special US Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad discussed the steps required for the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations during his meeting with Pakistan Army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, the American embassy in Islamabad said on Monday.Khalilzad visited Islamabad on Sunday and held talks with Bajwa on the Afghan peace process. He is …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan Chambers of Commerce and Industries has sounded the alarms of a precipitous decline in business and trade in northern Balkh amid an ever-galloping insurgent violence and rampant administrative corruption. Trade has plunged by a whopping 80 percent in Balkh, said Arash Younisi, head of the provincial …

AT News KABUL: The government has several times said that the Daesh terrorist group had been suppressed, weakened or even uprooted in Afghanistan, while the terrorist group claims responsibility for several attacks across the country. It took responsibility for three big attacks recently in Kabul and Nangarhar. The terrorist group …

AT News KABUL: Increasing crimes in the capital like armed thefts and target killings caused police to adopt new counter-crime plans. According to the plan, the taunted glass vehicles and unlicensed ones as well as weapons without permission are banned in Kabul. A joint command comprised of representatives from ministries …

AT News KBUL: A NATO official opposes any foreign troop drawdown as “hastily” before Taliban’s commitment peace. “This will be hurriedly to pull out of Afghanistan before a comprehensive peace agreement,” Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO’s former senior civilian representative to Afghanistan said on Sunday. The Taliban signed a peace deal …

AT News KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Sunday urged the Iranian authorities to investigate the burning and killing of Afghan refugees by Iranian police in the city of Yazd last week. Following the deaths of three Afghan refugees in a car fire in Iran, Mr. Karzai said …

AT News KABUL: Afghan Ministry of Defense has said that Iranian officials vowed to prosecute those behind shooting a car in Yazd which killed three Afghan migrants. Three Afghans were killed and four injured in Iran’s central Yazd province after their vehicle was shot at by Iranian police, starting the …