Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The United States’ new offers to Taliban during the negotiations has caused the peace deal postponed, sources familiar with the talks say, as the deal was expected to be finalized earlier. Meanwhile, political parties have welcomed latest progresses in the US-Taliban talks, saying that an intra-Afghan dialogue …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US Defense Minister Mark Esper assured his country’s presence in Afghanistan to make sure the country won’t return into terrorism nest. “US will not leave Afghanistan alone until the complete defeat of terrorist groups, and we will continue till we reach this goal.” This comes …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US Congress is allowing the Pentagon to spend up to $15 million this year for logistical support for peace talks in Afghanistan, Rollcall.com reported. But the Pentagon said it is “likely” that some of the funds will at least indirectly help the Taliban. This is …

AT News KABUL: The use of foreign currency, especially the Pakistani rupees, has been utterly banned in eastern Nangarhar province. The development made after a week of campaign against using of foreign currency, particularly the Pakistani rupees. From today (Sunday) all the transaction would take place in the Afghani currency …

AT News KABUL: At least 57 Taliban militants have been killed and 18 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 …

Byt Rajkumar Singh The initiative for establishing a regional cooperation association was taken in 1977 by Zia-ur-Rehman, the then president of Bangladesh.” It was with the yearning to bring some measure of stability and peace, and to improve the subhuman conditions of eternal poverty and misery” of new born Bangladesh …

AT News KABUL: Sources privy to the Taliban group have said that the American officials have pressured the Taliban to agree to a ceasefire, as well as intra-Afghan talks, prior the peace deal. However, the Taliban’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen has once again emphasized that the insurgent group wouldn’t participate in …

Afghanistan has many natural resources, especially in terms of water and mines, but they haven’t been tapped effectively so far. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran have a long history of conflict over scarce water resources – largely over Afghanistan’s infrastructure-building on the Helmand and Kabul rivers despite it’s a legitimate right and …

AT News KABUL: Since 18 years, there have been no building constructed for the provincial hospital in eastern Nuristan province and health services in the province are nearly equal to naught, local residents grumbled on Friday. Local inhabitants claimed that even minor diseases couldn’t be treated in the province and …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of religious scholars from northern Jawzjan province on Friday called on the warring parties to put an end to the ongoing war and work for peace in the country. They gathered in Shiberghan city, the provincial capital, requesting the Taliban to positively answer the call for …