Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: At least 23 drug runners pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and were sentenced to year behind bars in the past one week. A statement issued by the courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said that four drug traffickers sentenced to16-30 years’ incarceration after examining their dossiers …

AT News KABUL: Kabul police has detained a most dangerous criminal who were involved in several organized crimes in the city and suburbs. Aminullah, aka, Commander Ayan, was captured during operation conducted by Afghan national police and intelligence operatives in PD 17th on Monday night, Spokesman for Ministry of Interior, …

AT News KABUL: At least 117 Taliban militants have been killed and 17 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 Tuesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

By Ziaullah Akhtar Having been affected by the decades of turmoil and lost almost all the infrastructural institutions including hospitals, Afghans have chosen Pakistan as a cost effective and an accessible destination for treatment. Though people get convenient cure in the hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan, but still there are some …

The changing dimension of development and the international movement for the development of women have created a policy perspective for gender equality which recognises both women’s and men’s needs and, most importantly, their healthy interactions. Against this backdrop of situation, Dreze and Sen viewed that gender equality and social justice …

AT News KABUL: The Counter Criminal Police on Monday has arrested three people on charge of sexual assault on a 10 years old girl in northern Badghis province. Provincial local officials has earlier said that a ten years old girl have been sexually assaulted by a number of individuals in …

AT News KABUL: The independent election commission says they were waiting for a third tribunal to decide on Shafiq Zamani, head of the body’s Kabul branch. Zamani has apparently passed an exam to gain the post, but now he is facing controversies and the electoral body says the third court …

AT News KABUL: The armed opposition groups make at least one million dollars from illegally demining of gold and lapis lazuli mines in the northeastern Badakhshan province, civil society activists in the province claim. The activists said Monday that big parts of mines in Badakhshan are in control of the …

Sources suggest Taliban’s ruling council agreed to enforce a temporary ceasefire, while group’s spokesman said Taliban has no intention to do so AT News KABUL: There is conflicting reports coming out from Taliban leadership in regards to the ceasefire as the group did not scrutinize to be in the same …

AT News KABUL: At least 23 Taliban militants were killed and 27 others injured, after Afghan security forces conducted operation in southern Kandahar province. Ministry of Interior on Monday in a statement said that 23 Taliban militants were killed and 27 others wounded during a clearance operation carried out by …