Afghanistan Times
AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are fighting Taliban insurgents in Kunduz province with high morale, a high-profile security official said on Wednesday. The Afghan National Deputy Chief of Staff, Gen. Murad Ali Murad said that Afghan security forces had repelled Taliban’s recent attack …
Read More »Electricity returns to Kunduz
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) on Wednesday said that power had been reconnected after repairing of broken power cables from Tajikistan to Kunduz province. The power utility head for the northeastern zone, Eng. Hamidullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News the cables had been cut off during a …
Read More »Afghan govt failed to resolve problems: AGA
By Basir Qazizada KABUL: The Afghanistan Governors’ Association (AGA) mostly made of the former provincial governors on Wednesday expressed concerns over the failure of the National Unity Government (NUG) in delivering to the promises. The (AGA) members said that they would chalk out new plan to overcome the current problems …
Read More »Lashkargah won’t fall to Taliban: Official
By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: There is no major concern regarding the collapse of the Lashkargah city, the provincial capital of Helmand, to the Taliban insurgents, a provincial official said. Fareed Ahmad, an official at the Information Directorate, told Afghanistan Times that after deployment of around 100 US troops in the …
Read More »I intensely refuse to recognize the Durand Line: Begam Nasim Wali Khan
By Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay-Begam Nasim Wali Khan is the leader of Awami National Party (Wali) and wife of famous Pashtun politician late Abdul Wali Khan. Her husband was the first opposition leader in Pakistan and the founder of Awami National Party (ANP). Begam Nasim is the step mother of …
Read More »People want change in political system: Survey
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) on Tuesday released a survey, in which 51 percent of the people interviewed have said they want parliamentary system. The survey has interviewed 34 law experts and members of parliament and received 800 individuals answer through questioner in the aspect …
Read More »Husband kills wife, mother-in-law in Herat
AT-KABUL: A man shot his wife and mother in-law dead in the western Herat province, provincial officials said on Tuesday, an incident likely because of family problems. “Efforts are underway to detain the culprit,” provincial police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said. Ahmadi did not provide more details regarding the killing …
Read More »Iran ready to build oil refinery in Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Iranian Oil officials expressed the country’s readiness to build joint oil refineries in Afghanistan, Iranian MEHR news agency reported Tuesday. “A new storage tank will soon come to stream in South Khorasan Province saying “Birjand Oil Tank Farm with a capacity of storing 100 thousand barrels of …
Read More »89 insurgents killed in raids: MoD
AT-KABUL: Eighty-nine Taliban insurgents were killed and 15 others injured in different parts of the country in the past 24 hours, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Tuesday in a statement. The statement added that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and the national directorate of security …
Read More »Abdullah won’t work as he did previously: Amrullah Saleh
AT-KABUL: Former head of the intelligence agency has said that the chief executive Abdullah Abdullah will not work for the so-called ‘National Unity Government’ as he used to in the past two years. “Abdullah will talk to the president in three rounds,” Amrullah Saleh, who is supporting Abdullah, said, adding …
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