Afghanistan Times
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Being backed by Pakistan’s paramilitary troops, more than 500 Taliban started attacking Afghan security forces installations in Dand-e-Pathan district of Paktia province, last week, said a security official. Abdul Basir Khpalwak, a border police commander in Paktia province, said that military of Pakistan has even been supplying …
Read More »Absence of regulations hampers key mining projects
AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MMP) of Afghanistan on Sunday said that due to absence of comprehensive regulations and legal procedures, major companies were not ready to invest in the country’s mining sector. Addressing a press conference here, the minister for mines Dawood Shah Saba said that the …
Read More »ACCI warns of protest over trader’s kidnapping
AT-KABUL: Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) warned that if the government failed to rescue the kidnapped businessman from abductors, the traders would stop importing food items and will go on a nationwide shutter-down protest. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, the deputy chief of ACCI, Khan Jan …
Read More »Islamic State attacks Pak army check-post
AT-KABUL: The Islamic State, also popular as Daesh, on Sunday claimed attack on Pakistani paramilitary forces’ checkpoint in Bajaur Agency. The group which has vowed to erase the Durand Line as it did in Syria and Iraq, told Afghanistan Times that its fighters attacked the Frontier Corps (FC), Pakistan’s paramilitary …
Read More »Electoral reforms package inconclusive: FEFA
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) on Sunday said the electoral reforms package is incomplete and need further improvement. Welcoming the Electoral Reforms Commission (ERC) recommendations, the FEFA’s Chief Executive, Mohammad Yusuf Rashid, said the package has positive as well as negative and complicated …
Read More »Spate of terror attacks in Kabul strained Afghan-Pak relations: Aziz
“Only pushing the Taliban to the table of peace negotiation wouldn’t suffice, making the talks result-oriented is a must,” Aziz AT Monitoring Desk: KABUL: Adviser to the Pakistan’s Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz said the recent spate of terrorist suicide attacks in Kabul undermined the burgeoning …
Read More »Afghan couple stoned to death on adultery charges
Kabul: An official said Sunday, a couple accused of adultery was stoned to death by armed militants in northern Afghanistan. “A couple was found guilty of adultery charges during a Taliban court hearing in Qalai Sorkh area of Sozma Qala district,” said Hamid Elmi, head of media relations department in …
Read More »No change in Pakistan’s policy towards Afghanistan: PkMAP
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Senior leader of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Senator Usman Khan Kakar said that Pakistan has not changed its policy towards Afghanistan and was still hell-bent on annexing the latter as its fifth province. He said that Islamabad was pursuing the policy of “strategic depth” and …
Read More »279 cadets, including 15 Afghans, pass out of Army’s OTA
CHENNAI: Fifteen cadets from Afghanistan were among the 279 cadets commissioned as officers on completion of their training at the Indian Army’s Officers Training Academy here on Saturday. General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief of Army’s Eastern Command, Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi reviewed the passing out parade in which the cadets took part, …
Read More »Daesh vows to eliminate Durand Line
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), aka Daesh in South Asia, has pledged to eliminate the Durand Line and annex Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan with Afghanistan. An Afghan online news portal Khaama Press, quoted Abu Talult Al Khurasani spokesman of the multinational terrorist group, as …
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