Afghanistan Times
‘400km square lands newly contaminated with landmines, unexploded devices’ By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Despite spending of millions of dollars in mine clearance program in the past decades still mine blast and unexploded ammunitions deemed as big challenge in Afghanistan, as averagely 142 people being killed or sustained injuries by mine and …
Read More »Using extremism won’t serve Pakistan, West’s interests: Karzai
AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai says that the use of Taliban and extremism would not serve Pakistan and the West’s interests in Afghanistan. He called Taliban as part of the Afghan population, used by Pakistani authorities. “Unfortunately, our brotherly country Pakistan with the West and some other countries felt that …
Read More »18 drug traffickers arrested
AT-KABUL: Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) has arrested 18 drug runners in the past one week, security officials said on Monday. “Eighteen drug smugglers were apprehended by CNP through different crackdown and were handed over to Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) for further criminal proceedings,” CJTF said in a statement. It …
Read More »59 militants killed in raids
AT-KABUL: At least 59 insurgents have been killed in counter-terrorism operation carried out by Afghan security forces during past 24 hours across the country, security officials said on Monday. In a statement issued here, the Ministry of Interior said the counter-terrorism operations have been conducted in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar, Khost, …
Read More »‘Over 1,100 children a day expected to drop out of school’
AT-KABUL: More than 400,000 children in Afghanistan – over 1,100 per day – are expected to drop out of school this year due to growing instability and a spike in forced returns from Pakistan, Save the Children analysis has shown. The stark projection comes on the first day of the …
Read More »War on Daesh of utmost important
Rabbani leaves for US to attend anti-Daesh summit By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salahuddin Rabbani on Sunday left for the United State to attend anti-Daesh summit, which is going to be held on 22nd March at foreign ministerial level. Despite other militant outfits, the Islamic State (IS) …
Read More »No limitation for exchange of old currency: DAB
AT-KABUL: The Central Bank (Da Afghanistan Bank) on Saturday declared that no limitation will be adopted for exchange of old Afghan currency. DAB governor Khalil Sediq said that exchange of old Afghan currency will be followed continually without any time limitation in the country. He said that only exchange of …
Read More »Afghan banks to remove from Banking Gray list: DAB
AT-KABUL: Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) on Saturday said that Afghanistan has addressed all the requirements has been set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and it will be taken off the gray list of the organization within three months “DAB has met all requirements of the FATF regarding money …
Read More »60 insurgents killed in military operations
AT-KABUL: At least 60 Taliban militants were killed and 34 others were wounded in different operations within the past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD)said that Afghan National Army (ANA) with the cooperation of Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) …
Read More »Moscow supports Afghanistan’s peace process
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Russia has pledged to support the Afghan government police of durable peace and stability in the war-hit country, the National Security Council (NSC) said on Saturday. In a press release issued here, the NSC said that Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed the commitment at a meeting …
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