Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Political analysts and members of senate reject the idea of forming a new province inside the mountainous province of Badakhshan in the northeast, saying the idea would pave the ground for disintegration conspiracies and establishing another country in Afghanistan. Recently some ideas came out about the …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of lawmakers at the parliament (Wolesi- Jirga) have summoned the minister of interior, Massoud Andarabi on Friday late evening after verbal and physical dispute occurred between the security forces and people’s representatives in Pul-e-Charkhi area of Kabul. The dispute has lasted for hours and …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces have arrested a would-be suicide bomber before reaching to his goal in southern Kandahar province, security official said Saturday. Afghan National Police (ANP) identified and arrested a suicide bomber before to reach its target in PD8th in Kandahar city, ministry of interior …

AT News Report KABUL: The Stability and Partnership electoral team, led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has accused some unnamed figures in the Independent Election Commission of colluding with President Ashraf Ghani’s team for presided and organized the systematic fraud in the voting process. Addressing a press conference, second vice …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 10 Taliban fighters were killed and two bomb making factories of the group, were terminated in southern Helmand province. In addition to that nine Taliban rebels were wounded in several joint clearance operations carried out by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in …

With about a week remaining for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the preliminary results – scheduled for October 19 – of last month’s presidential election, the atmosphere of uncertainty is skyrocketing. There are constant claims of fraud since the day the vote was conducted as almost all of …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces in a clearing-operation conducted on Friday night, have wiped out Taliban rebels from Dasht-e-Archi district of northern Kunduz province, security officials said Saturday. Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) cleared Dasht-e-Archi district of insurgents and took control of the center and …

AT News Report KABUL: In a gathering in northern Baghlan province, a number of religious Ulema have called for direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban group in a bid to restore peace as violence surged. A religious scholar, Abdulbasir Hamidi has said that Afghans have been …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 76 militants were killed and 38 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 (ANA) …

AT News Report KABUL: Some presidential contenders urge the invalidation of the non-biometric ballots, warning to reject the results if the non-biometric votes were counted as valid ballots. Rahmatollah Nabil, one of the runners for presidency, accuses President Ghani’s electoral team of organizing rallies to try to validate the non-biometric …