Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: A top U.S. diplomat Saturday called for more robust and effective action against Afghanistan government officials who indulge in corruption and fraud. Following the arrest of six senior Afghan police officials for drug smuggling charges, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, …

AT News KABUL: Some 65 per cent of Afghan population are still deprived from government, says the Integrity Watch Afghanistan, two decades after tens of billions of dollars were donated by international community to reconstruction of Afghan infrastructures. Sayed Ekram Afzali, head of the watchdog calls mismanagement in the government …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Poppy cultivation declined but potential opium production increased in Afghanistan last year, says the United States. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said this in the US government’s annual estimate of drug production on Friday. The report said Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation had decreased …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan plans to renovate temples of Hindu and Sikh communities – in what is seen as a rare move by the government to address woes of religious minorities who have called this country their home over the centuries. Ministry of Finance has unveiled a $650,000 budget plan …

AT News KABUL: Kabul police have detained at least seven people on charge of different crimes in fresh clampdown in the capital city within 24 hours. Seven people were arrested in connection to plundering, robbery, carrying illegal arms and crooking during crackdown by police, Kabul Police Press Disk said on …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Interior has denied the White House report about the surge of opium product in Afghanistan, saying that there has been significant reduction in narcotics product in the country as the counter narcotic police conducting several raids to destroy it. White House Office of National …

AT News KABUL: Election commission has said it is geared up for the conduct of a partial recount of contested ballots with the complaints tribunal already concluded its drawn-out investigations into myriad complaints alleging massive fraud in 2019 presidential race. This is as the electoral complaints commission announced Saturday that …

Over past few years, government of Afghanistan has oscillated from isolation and faux pas to debacle, and back – with its popularity at lowest ebb. Issues that haunt and magnify government’s default fall in sphere of governance, war, insecurity, political instability and corruption. Aside from the armed opposition and elusive …

AT News KABUL: At least 71 Taliban militants have been killed and two others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Saturday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

By Mansoor Faizy Afghanistan is a country where peace is still a distant dream for its citizens. Its people have suffered decades of unrest and infighting. Fighting has not subsided even as political and diplomatic efforts intensify. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of an imposed, grisly war. In one …