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AT-KABUL: As many as 40 security personnel have been freed from the Taliban’s run prison during a joint raid by Afghan and US Special Forces in southern Helmand province. The US forces headquarters in Afghanistan said in a press release that Afghan and US forces raided a Taliban-run prison in …

India’s delay in taking a clear position on the negotiation between the Taliban and the Pakistan government might end up justifying Pakistan’s current strategy for the Taliban, The Hindu was told by Amar Sinha, Ambassador of India to Kabul. Mr Sinha said that the recent attack on Taliban leader Mullah …

At least 14 people were killed and another six wounded when a mortar allegedly fired by Afghan National Army (ANA) troops hit a mosque in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Friday, residents said. Elders of the district had gathered in a mosque in Wotali village when …

By Malik Achakzai: Having his paternal connection to the Ahmed Shah Abdali’s top general and the conqueror of Panipath, Barkhurdar Khan Achakzai, and maternally his lineage comes from Abdullah Khan Achakzai, the martyred and sparkle of the first Anglo-Afghan war, for Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai aka Khan Shaheed his political …

Taking people from poverty to decision-making is the state’s responsibility. How active citizens and effectives states can change the fare of the poor population is a matter of concern and honesty. When the state and those in whose hands lies the power remain unconcerned and crooked, how change will take …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Afghan Women Network (a cluster of civil society activities for advocacy of women rights) alleged the murky negotiation process with Taliban has impacted membership of women in High Council of the Supreme Court (HCSC) in a serious way. Shafiqa Habibi, a member of AWN said that after …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that its operatives have seized a huge cache of weapons of the Haqqani terrorist network in central Logar province. A statement issued by the NDS here on Thursday stated that its operatives have seized a huge weapon cache from the Haqaani network …

AT-KABUL: Office of the Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum confirmed that the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansoor has sustained injuries during infighting in Quetta city of Balochistan. Sultan Faizi, a spokesman of Dostum, told Afghanistan Times that Mansoor was injured during infighting in the residence of Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi …

“ANP has no space for extremist and radical ideologies,” says Sediq Sediqi AT-KABUL: Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) released a survey report about trends of radicalization among the ranks of the Afghan National Police (ANP) in which over 68 percent respondents said that corruption exists among the ranks of …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Monday organized a day long regional seminar on counterterrorism and extremism in the “Heart of Asia” in Kabul. The seminar titled “Regional Seminar on Counter Terrorism and Extremism in the Heart of Asia” was aimed to boost up regional cooperation in …