Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkey has expressed readiness to mediate intra-Afghan peace talks in case of a request, the country’s Kabul envoy said Tuesday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Oğuzhan Ertuğrul said that the peace deal that was signed between the Taliban and the United States on Feb. 29 is …

AT News KABUL: The ‘tug of war’ between the feuding leaders Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah to take over control of the government has intensified after the president elect dismantled the Office of Chief Executive (OCE) and Abdullah faulting the credibility and legitimacy of his government on Wednesday. As political polarization is …

AT News KABUL: “Beyond a shameful deal,” said former NDS Chief, Rahmatullah Nabil, following the President Ashraf Ghani’s decree over the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners. He vowed that release of the Taliban prisoners is a desecration of the Afghan security forces, who suffered nearly 50,000 deaths during Ghani’s first …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan government has expressed concern over the increase of corronavirus cases in Afghanistan, saying that people should stay vigilant and pay serious attention in regards. Speaking to a news conference on Wednesday, President Ashraf Ghani’s Spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi said the government is working to adopt preventive …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped by 168 to 631, an increase of 36 percent; the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, the largest rise in absolute numbers since the contagion came to light on Feb. 21. The total number …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Wednesday voiced Tehran’s determination to restore sustainable stability to Afghanistan. The remarks by the Foreign Ministry official comes as Ashraf Ghani and his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, took the oath of office as the president of Afghanistan on Monday, …

China has been a paragon of a systematic fight against spread of the novel coronavirus pneumonia since its outbreak. China adopted draconian response measures; cities including the epicenter of the disease, Wuhan, were locked down during the epidemic in mainland China. That, intuitively, set a pattern for the rest of …

By Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: Afghanistan is one of the countries, where the longest violence has not only inflicted human casualties but also put severe damages to the country’s cultural relics and historical places. Many of the country’s ancient places have been destroyed and its unique relics looted or either …

Russian Foreign Ministry believes that emerging internal political crisis, exacerbated by two parallel inauguration ceremonies of Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah, can undermine the intra-Afghan talks AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Russia has called on the opposing political forces of Afghanistan to focus on reaching national reconciliation, instead of …

AT News KABUL: The capital looks just like a military fortress with Abdullah Abdullah’s gunmen blocking roads to a place housing offices of vice presidents. The city’s face reminds Kabul residents of the four-year long civil war (1992-1996), a horrific city with irresponsible gunmen walking or driving on the roads. …