Afghanistan Times
Afghanistan is considered one of the poorest countries in the Asian-continent, but not that much in true scenes. Afghanistan has only three trillion dollars underground untapped resources. This is huge money, but of no use at the moment. Over 70 percent of the population is under poverty line. The Afghan …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 34 COVID-19 Cases, One Death in Last 24 Hours
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 34 new coronavirus cases and one death in the past 24 hours around the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic reached to 56,226 cases across the country. These new cases come out of …
Read More »‘Ceasefire Key for Success of Afghan Peace Push’
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A comprehensive and permanent ceasefire is critical for the success of the Afghan peace process, India’s foreign minister said in a meeting with his Afghan counterpart on Wednesday. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stressed that enduring peace in Afghanistan is important for the security and prosperity of the region …
Read More »49K Afghans displaced in last two months of violence
AT News KABUL: More than 49,000 people were displaced during the past two months as violence has been intensifying across Afghanistan. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report that the displaced people included children and women who were forced to leave their residence due …
Read More »Covid-19 Highly Relates Found in Bats, Pangolins
AT NewsKABUL: The Chinese research team says that evidence from surveys and studies have shown that corronavirus most highly related to SARS-CoV-2 were found in bats and pangolins. “These mammals may be the reservoir of the virus that causes COVID-19, due to the high similarity in genetic sequences between the …
Read More »Man Arrested For Sexual Abuse of Child in Kabul
AT News KABUL: A man was detained on charge of sexually assaulting an eight years old girl in PD3 of Kabul city, security official said on Tuesday. Kabul Police Spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz said that the case has been under investigation and would be sent to the judicial department. He was …
Read More »Karzai Terms Moscow Meeting Important Step Towards Peace
Former President Hamid Karzai said that the “Troika” meeting laid out agreement among the World’s biggest country on peaceful settlement in Afghanistan In the sideline of the “Troika” meeting held between the foreign ministers of Russia, U.S., China and Pakistan, Former President Hamid Karzai in an interview with Sputniknews …
Read More »Logar Governor Rejects District Fall to Taliban
AT News KABUL: Logar Governor, Abdul Qayyum Rahimi denied collapse of the district to the Taliban, terming the reports over falling of the districts as inaccurate. Earlier, there were some reports about the fall of the Charkh district of Logar into the Taliban. But provincial officials denied the reports, saying …
Read More »US vows to keep NATO in the loop over Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised on Tuesday to share Washington’s initial thinking on a looming deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. This as he meets with EU officials for a two-day summit in Brussels. He made the pledge ahead of meetings with European defense …
Read More »Afghan, Indian Officials Discuss Bilateral, Regional Cooperation
AT News KABUL: Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Haneet Atmar, who is on a three-day visit to India, met with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and discussed enhanced bilateral and regional cooperation and achieving lasting peace in Afghanistan. Taking to twitter after the meeting, Mr. Atmar said that both …
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