Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) on administration corruption says the procurement system faces 37 main challenges. It said Wednesday that the measures taken by the procurement department are symbolic and political in which officials tried to pretend fake achievements. Mortaza Noori, an official from MEC said …

AT News KABUL: Troubles made after the new Central Bank governor’s appointment, still remain unsolved with conflicting reasons. Ajmal Ahmadi was appointed by President Ghani as the acting Central Bank governor. He immediately fired five senior officials that was followed by reactions from government, parliament and people. The Central Bank …

AT News KABUL: The United States keeps pressuring Taliban to stay committed in implementing of a February 29 peace deal the two sides signed which allows Washington to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that in his recent phone call with the Taliban …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban group claimed that they have released 732 members of the Afghan security forces since the start of the prisoner swap process to facilitate the intra-Afghan talks. Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban Qatar based political office’s spokesman said the group had released 20 Afghan security forces last …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The UN Security Council has encouraged the Afghan government and the Taliban to work toward an early start of peace negotiations. In a press statement, the members of the Security Council welcomed steps taken so far by the two sides to move toward the start of …

Afghanistan reported a drop in new coronavirus cases for the six consecutive days on Wednesday as Kabul sought to stamp out the risk of further infections by taking further steps to contain the virus and its wild spread. The Public Health Ministry said 319 new coronavirus cases were recorded with …

AT News KABUL: With 319 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, Afghanistan now officially has 31,836 coronavirus cases across the country. Covid-19 positive cases slightly decreased, but still 28 patients have lost their lives to the virus. 1,520 patients were also recovered during this period. The Ministry of …

China said that it will take necessary countermeasures to firmly safeguard its national interests in response to the United States’ decision to end special treatment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a regular press briefing, adding that the …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 30 Taliban insurgents in retaliation to their attacks on their checkpoints in three provinces, security officials said on Wednesday. In addition to that, 12 others Taliban rebels were also wounded in these attacks. Taliban fighters coordinately assaulted security forces …

AT News KABUL: NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg said it is too early to talk about US and Coalition troops pull out from Afghanistan, but he said the decision would utterly reliant on the ground situation in Afghanistan. To avoid Afghanistan from becoming once again a safe haven for the …