Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The parliament says it had assigned a team to assess the armed clashes between residents of Wardak province and the nomads over pastures. The decision came after some Pashtoon lawmakers, accused their colleague Ghulam Hossain Naseri of taking arm against the nomads. But other legislators on Monday …

Although there were claims and reports in the past that the US President Donald Trump was hell-bent on extricating from the Afghan quagmire, a recent explosive and newly-released book by his former national security advisor John Bolton only substantiates them. The bombshell book, “The Room Where It Happened,” has revealed …

AT News KABUL: With 234 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, Afghanistan now officially has 29,715 cases across the country. The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said that out of 651 suspected samples, 234 were positive—a scene of slight reduction for a 6th consecutive day in a …

AT News KABUL: The outbreak of coronavirus has impinged upon the implementation of major construction projects in the central province of Bamyan, local officials said. The government has stopped Bamyan’s main road and construction projects because of the coronavirus pandemic and its implications. The project of asphalting of 178 km …

AT News KABUL: Financial implications of the COVID-19 outbreak have been stark and overwhelming for Afghanistan as the Ministry of Finance estimates the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in lost revenue of around $285 million in Q2 of 2020. Acting Minister of Finance, AbdulHadi Arghandiwal, has told VOA that custom revenues …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan and Iran have agreed to step up efforts to strengthen security along mutual borders, amid an avalanche of public fury and expressions of concerns over atrocities of Iran police against Afghan migrants, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. The agreement was made during the …

AT News KABUL: A senior U.S. military official in the region, Kenneth McKenzie, has warned the Taliban insurgents that they have a ‘little time’ to fulfill their commitments for peace, the reduction in violence in particular. McKenzie who holds the US Central Command, had earlier said that his country had …

AT News KABUL: Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has met with US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, the embassy tweeted on Tuesday. They stressed the importance of “coordination of our approaches on Afghanistan,” the statement said on Monday. Special attention was given to countering international terrorism, it added. …

AT News KABUL: Iran has agreed to grant legal documents to the Afghan immigrants living, a move which would legalize their stay and reduce their grievances. The agreement was part of a joint statement signed by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and his Afghan counterpart Hanif Atmar in Tehran. According …

Ironically, while the peace process is steadily progressing, the violence is also raging in Afghanistan. Contrary to the expectations tied to the Feb.’s US-Taliban peace pact in terms of reduction in violence, as a matter of fact, if anything, the war and violence have only increased. It means that war …