Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Political and military experts think that Taliban militants have been armed with modern air defense weapons that enable them down planes, pointing to two air incidents on the same day. A foreign helicopter crashed on Monday in Ghazni province’s district of Deh Yak. Simultaneously, an airplane of …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of interior has announced the dismissal of central Panjshir police chief, Mohammad Ishaq Tamqin due to his failure in detention of a fled criminal, Hassib Qua-e-Markaz, who earlier had escaped from the security forces’ crackdown.   Meanwhile, in a video clip published in social media, …

AT News KABUL: Moscow has said that ISIS, known as Daesh extremist group, has not been defeated in Afghanistan – contrary to what Afghan security forces say that Daesh extremist is defeated.      “Tensions are running high in Afghanistan. The armed opposition, as represented by the Taliban movement, has brought …

AT News KABUL: Some political experts accuse the government of monopolizing peace negotiations, alleging that the act had hampered the national process. The analysts said Monday that presidential office emphasizes on peace, but from other hand, offers conditions that means monopoly in the peace efforts because government leaders do not …

AT News KABUL: A Pashtun young politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Manzoor Pashteen – the man leading protests accusing Pakistan’s army of human rights abase, has been arrested for alleged criminal conspiracy and sedition.   Pashteen was taken into custody along with nine others from his Pashtun …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan has stopped ground shipments of export cargos from Afghanistan into its port of Waga – a ratcheting up of Pakistan’s transit pressure to have hit Afghan exporters for several times, a government spokesman said Monday. “Several cargo trucks carrying fruits headed to India have been sent …

AT News KABUL: A Pashtun young politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Manzoor Pashteen – the man leading protests accusing Pakistan’s army of human rights abase, has been arrested for alleged criminal conspiracy and sedition. Pashteen was taken into custody along with nine others from his base …

AT News KABUL: Amid painstaking negotiations in Qatar to broker a peace deal, the Ministry of Defense has said the military is ramping up operations to counter an increase in Taliban attacks which are inflicting heavy losses to the belligerents. Defense authorities have said that a bevy of counterinsurgency raids …

While efforts for inking a peace agreement and observing a ceasefire with the Taliban by the US are on, the constant victimization of Afghan mere mortals is still raging on. A recent horrible incident that happened in northern Balkh province has resulted in the killing of seven people from a …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan leaders have been engaged in forging a comprehensive and single peace plan to galvanize the process of peace talks and also feasible and comprehensible in facilitating Afghan-to-Afghan talks once peace deal is brokered between the United States and the Taliban, said a former government official …