Afghanistan Times
AT-KABUL: The Kabul office of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent (UAERC) in collaboration with the United Arab Emirate (UAE) embassy based in Kabul has decided to build a school in southern Nimroz province. A press statement emailed to Afghanistan Times, the UAE embassy said that the Kabul office …
Read More »Afghanistan, Iran railways to be linked in early 2018
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Deputy Head of Iranian Railway Company, Hossein Ashouri said Iran’s and Afghanistan’s railways to connect in early 2018, Mehr, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday. “Iran has constructed a railroad till border with Afghanistan, however the remaining railroad inside Afghanistan is expected to be ready …
Read More »Six Daesh leaders among 47 killed
AT-KABUL: At least six leaders of the Islamic State (IS), aka, Daesh terrorist group were among 47 other militants killed in an air and ground operations carried by the Afghan security forces in Haska Meean and Bati Kot districts of eastern Nangarhar province,” the provincial press office said in a …
Read More »Sealing Pak Afghan crossing is of no interests
Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: Reluctance on the part of rulers from both the neighbouring countries of recognizing each other’s sovereign and autonomous status is considered the main cause behind sealing of Pak Afghan border thus putting at halt all sort of trading and travelling. Not for the first time but formally, …
Read More »‘Insecurity put off 6,000 NSP projects’
Citizens Charter Program to cover the whole communities within one month By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) on Saturday said that 6,000 National Solidarity Program (NSP)’s development projects had been halted due to insecurity across the country in the past 14 years. The Ministry said …
Read More »Engineers kidnapped in Logar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five engineers working for a road construction company were kidnapped by Taliban militants in eastern Logar province, local officials said on Saturday. The abduction took place late Friday in the Mohammad Agha district, said district governor Mohammad Nasir Amin. “They were travelling in the area without contacting …
Read More »‘Islamabad keen to purge tension with Kabul’
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Islamabad has given a green signal to easy the recent ongoing tensions with Kabul in spirit of a mutual respect and cooperation, but, however the country did not decide yet to reopen Pak-Afghan crossing points, the Pakistani officials said the other day. Pakistani Foreign Office Spokesman, Nafees …
Read More »Two soldiers killed in Helmand
AT-KABUL: At least two troops have been killed and three others received injures in a suicide car bombing in southern Helmand province, an official said on Friday. Confirming the bombing, the provincial governor spokesman, Omar Zwak said that incident occurred after a suicide car bomb exploded near to any army …
Read More »Afghanistan never supports any terrorist outfit: Abdullah
By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Blaming Afghanistan for supporting terrorist outfits is not realistic, rather it is a move in order to divert minds, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah said today, while calling on regional countries for honest cooperation in war on terror. Abdullah in a gathering in Kabul to …
Read More »Pakistan should be included in UN black list for its crime of supporting terrorism: Protestors chanted
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hundreds of Kabul residents including politicians and civil society activists on Thursday took out to the streets to give vent to their anger against Pakistan for its “continuing support to the militancy, and the recent shelling on resident areas in eastern provinces of the country. While chanting …
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