AT News Report Kabul: A Taliban delegation, led by Abdul Ghani Baradar, have left Qatar for Indonesia on Friday morning, the militant movement’s mouthpiece said. A Taliban Spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, in a brief statement said that at the head of an eight-member team, Mullah Baradar would hold talks with Indonesian …
Read More »Police chief for Khogyani district killed in Taliban assault
AT News Report KABUL: District Police Chief for Khogyani district and two security personnel were killed when the Taliban stormed the police headquarters on Thursday night in the southern province of Ghazni, the provincial police said in a statement on Friday. Samiullah Popal, the acting police head for Khogyani district, was among two other security …
Read More »Nine wedding guests killed in Nangarhar roadside bomb blast
AT News Report KABUL: At least nine wedding guests were killed and another four were injured on Thursday morning after their mini-truck, they were traveling in, struck by a militant placed roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province, officials told Afghanistan Times. The blast took place against the mini-truck today morning …
Read More »11 die, 45 wounded in Kabul multiple blasts as top US Gen. visits
AT News Report KABUL: At least eleven civilians have been killed and 45 others were wounded in three consecutive blasts in Kabul, the capital city, on Thursday morning. The attacks, in which Taliban claimed one of it, came amid visits by two senior US officials to Kabul in order to …
Read More »Karzai calls for US withdrawal after Trump’s nasty remarks
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai, said in reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s nasty statements on wiping Afghanistan off the face of earth, said that Afghans are averse to the US presence in their country, calling the US to get out of Afghanistan. Trump said on …
Read More »Durand Line is a line, not boundary
AT News Report KABUL: A US Congressman, Brad Sherman, during a meeting with Pakistani Premier Imran Khan has called upon the US government to persuade its Afghan counterpart to officially accept the de-facto Durand Line. He made the remarks during a meeting with Khan after a Congressional reception him. “We …
Read More »Kabul police detained 10 drug dealers
AT News Report KABUL: At least 10 drug traffickers and sellers have been apprehended during police crackdowns in various provinces, a statement from the police said Wednesday. The Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) arrested six drug dealers during anti-drug operations in the 8th, 10th, 17th police districts and the …
Read More »“We endeavor to take 10m human out of poverty”
AT News Report KABUL: As a reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s reckless remarks on Afghanistan, the Europe Union Special Envoy to Kabul, Ronald Kobia, said Europe Union is looking forward to respectfully back and rebuild Afghanistan and take over 10 million people out of poverty in this country. …
Read More »Editorial: Reckless remarks
Amidst commencing of US Special Envoy Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad’s 8th round of peace talks, President Donald Trump has made anger the Afghans with his remarks during bilateral talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House. Afghanistan has demanded the United States to clarify about remarks made by President …
Read More »Over 63,000 MoE workers biometrically registered
AT News Report KABUL: The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Wednesday announced that biometric registration of 24 percent of its employees have been completed – a process that is aimed at further transparency. The fundamental information about at least 63,000 employees of MoE had been entered into a single biometric …
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