Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Sher Abbas Stanekzai, Taliban chief negotiator, says ceasefire with the US-led foreign forces is intact but there is no ceasefire with the Afghan government forces as it is not part of the US-Taliban agreement. “A separate agreement will be discussed and signed with the Kabul administration …

AT News KABUL: Afghan Air Forces (AAF) has targeted a gathering of the Taliban group in which the red unit commander along 15 Taliban fighters was killed in northern Balkh province, said officials on Tuesday.  The airstrike carried out in Kushinda district at around 1:10am local time, said 209 Shaheen …

AT News KABUL: The US Department of State has condemned the Iranian border police’s brutal act against the Afghan migrants, saying that Iran’s “cruel treatment” and abuse of Afghan migrants is horrifying. Following a report published by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission over the vicious behavior of Iran border …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s warring leaders—President Ashraf Ghani and his estranged ally Abdullah Abdullah—appeared inching closer to a rapprochement as presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi talked about positive progress made in the talks between the two camps. Without give further details, Sediqqi in a press conference said, “There is progress, the …

Blowing up power pylons and disrupting the supply of imported power in Afghanistan has turned into a tool of pressure for the illegal armed groups, who squeeze it at will when times are hard for them. Following last week’s blowing-up of a transmission tower in the capital that cut off …

AT News KABUL: The government has released another 102 Taliban prisoners as part of peace efforts to bring the deadly Afghan war to an end through negotiation. Javid Faisal, Spokesman of the National Security Council said in pursuant to President Ashraf Ghani, the government had released 102 Taliban prisoners yesterday. …

By Khan Wali Khan Basharmal No one knew what the Afghanistan election of 2019 would bring. Neither the international community, nor the Afghan people, not even the opposition to the current Democratic administration of President Ashraf Ghani. The election was fraught with its own logistical issues. The election date itself …

By Li Zhenghuan The current Covid-19 situation in Afghanistan is quite severe, with the number of confirmed cases keeping rising up. In the nearly two months lockdown, the pandemic has hit the Afghan fragile economy hard,  leading to unemployment, food shortages and prices increase and other problems. The lives of …

By Shokrullah Amiri According to the Afghan government figures reported on 4 April 2020, there are now 2894 confirmed cases of  COVID-19 with 90 deaths in Afghanistan. The 40 of these cases are employees and security officers of the Office of the President of Afghanistan and dead of 5 medical …

By Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo Deputy-Director, Agricultural Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Many uncertainties haunt the world’s campaign to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, but one thing is now sure: Global economic activity will suffer greatly, with large-scale consequences for the incomes and …