Afghanistan Times
AT New KABUL: At least 18 Taliban militants have been killed and three others wounded during a crackdown carried out in southern Kandahar province. Afghan security forces supported by the Afghan Air Forces conducted operation against Taliban insurgents in Arghandab and Zherai districts of Kandahar, in which 18 Taliban rebels …
Read More »Over 1K Soldiers Graduate Military Training
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Monday said that 1,057 soldiers completed military training and graduated from Kabul Military Training Center. Out of 1,057 trained soldiers, 102 are female, who completed a 12 week military training, the ministry said in a statement. Army Chief of Staff General Mohammad …
Read More »China Urges ‘Orderly’ Foreign Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: China, which has stepped up its engagement for the success of peace process in Afghanistan, on Sunday called for the orderly foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Speaking in a press conference, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wang Yu expressed concern over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, …
Read More »Afghanistan Will Not Go Back To War Era, Assures Official
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is not expected to go back to the dark era of war, deputy defense minister Shah Mahmood Miakhil assured. Civil wars in the 1990s by the mujahideen groups changed Kabul city to a ruin. Now, the people of Afghanistan are worried they would witness another war …
Read More »Prominent Afghan Singer Dies in Exile
AT News KABUL: Afsana Nawabi, one of veteran and pioneer women singers passed away in Germany at the age of 70. She was recently suffering from cancer. Mohammad Taher Zohair, acting minister of information and culture, said Sunday that Paikar Soltan known by her stage name Afsana passed away in …
Read More »Russia under ‘Serious Criticism’ for Displacing a Wrong Map of Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The Russian Foreign Ministry has displaced a wrong map showing Pamir and Wakhan areas, located in the northern province of Badakhshan, out of Afghanistan’s territory. Two days ago, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a map which indicated a path from Pakistan to Tajikistan via Badakhshan’s areas of …
Read More »Abdullah Calls on Govt. Not To Register Tribes in e-ID Cards
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, head of reconciliation council called on the statistics department not to include different tribes in the electronic identification cards. The comment follows Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh’s reaction to the statistics department’s decision over registering small tribes in the electronic ID card. Danesh said on …
Read More »Afghan Leaders Call for United Position on US Peace Plan
Afghan leaders held meeting under the leadership committee of the High Council for National Reconciliation AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, head of reconciliation council calls on the Afghan political leaders to adopt a single position on a peace plan recently offered by the United States that urges an interim government …
Read More »‘Quetta Shura, a Title for Pakistan to Implement Evil Designs’
AT News KABUL: The First Vice President Amrullah Saleh says that Quetta Shur (Council) was “nothing else” but a title for the Pakistani military to implement their plans. Saleh in a statement on Sunday said that since he found that the Taliban lack “charismatic” figures. “Pakistan does not allow it,” …
Read More »One Dead, Four Wounded in Kabul Prison Riot
AT News KABUL: One prisoner has been killed and four others were wounded in the physical dispute erupted among the prisoners in Pul-e-Charkhi Central Jail located in capital Kabul, authorities said on Sunday. Farhad Bayani, a spokesman for the office of the prisoner administration said that the dispute occurred on …
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