Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Residents of northern parts of Kabul city whose houses have been built in higher lands than the other parts of the capital, are severely suffering shortage of water. They say they have to walk long distances in search of potable water in the Khwaja Boghra neighborhood, …

Explosions, gunfire and deaths have become the daily norm as have fear and anger. But after forty years of violence, peace is finally a possibility in Afghanistan. Many will recall the day a ceasefire is announced – when gunfire stops, complex attacks are not conducted and people celebrate in the …

AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday called the recent appointment of a new advisor by President Ashraf Ghani as a ‘direct interference’ in the election process. The CEO in a statement said that the appointment of Noor Mohammad Noor as an advisor to the …

AT News Report KABUL:  A number of tribal elders and religious scholars in the southeastern Paktia province on Tuesday urged the Taliban group to announce an armistice before Eid-ul-Adha and take concrete steps towards a lasting peace in the country. The participants of a gathering called on the Taliban to …

AT News Report KABUL: The Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) on Tuesday announced that almost two million Afghan children worked in hazardous conditions, which rendered them mentally and physically unwell. A 12-year-old Ahmad works in a forging workshop from dawn to dusk every day in the …

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said that protesters’ sustained acts of disruption are pushing “our city, the city we all love and many helped to build, to the verge of a dangerous situation”. Lam, speaking at a news conference, pledged resolute action to maintain law and order …

AT News Report KABUL: The United States and Taliban are expected to finalize their peace deal within eight days, Pakistani Ambassador to Kabul, Zahid Nasrullah Khan says, if true, a big victory for the two sides, while the government of Afghanistan still remains in sidelines. The eighth round of negotiations …

AT News Report KABUL: At least five staffers of the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) have been killed when seven others received injuries after an explosives-rigged bicycle hit their shuttle vehicle in capital Kabul on Tuesday, officials said. Spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Nasrat Rahimi said that a sticky …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 40 Taliban fighters have been killed and another six injured in western Herat province in what local officials on Tuesday labeled it an ‘internal fight’ between rival factions.   However, the Taliban group claims attacking a base of ‘pro-government uprising’. Deadly battles for turf …

AT News Report KABUL: The Presidential Palace in reaction to Taliban’s statement said that Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) is fully prepared to protect the compatriots against threat and thwart any attempt aiming at disruption of election. The Taliban group termed presidential elections as misleading and illegitimate, and …