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AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Education (MoE) has signed contracts with three foreign publishing companies to print 16 million textbooks for school students within next four months. The contracts were awarded to two Indian companies and one Vietnamese publication center. The minister for education, Assadullah Hanif Balkhi, signed the contracts with …

Ministry of Higher Education got more budget than last year, says Ministry of Finance By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) has cancelled evening shifts in all public universities this year while presenting “inadequate budget” as an excuse. Spokesman for MoHE, Mohammad Azim Noorbakhsh, said that this …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: US President Barack Obama in a rare visit to the Pentagon for delivering remarks on his strategy to fight Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) said that United States would partner with nations like Afghanistan to support security forces to defeat terrorist networks. Obama while briefing …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least three foreigners were wounded, after a suicide attacker targeted foreign troops’ convoy in Shah Shaheed area in Kabul on Tuesday morning. According to initial report a suicide attacker driving a Corolla model car has targeted the convoy of foreign forces in Shah Shaheed area of …

AT-KABUL: As many as 66 armed Taliban fighters were killed and 53 others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security …

KABUL: A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of NATO troops in capital Kabul on Tuesday morning, leaving at least three foreigners injured, Kabul Police said. Ebadullah Karimi, spokesman for Kabul Police told Afghanistan Times a suicide bomber, driving a car full of explosives, targeted vehicles convoy of foreign troops …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Tens of civil rights activists on Monday staged protest demonstration in front of the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque and termed the appellate court’s verdict ‘unfair’ about dropping death penalty for men who were involved in Farkhunda’s mob killing. Earlier, the primary court sentenced four men to death …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday said that Afghan Air Force (AAF) would be equipped with 20 Super E29 fighter jets by the end of this year. Spokesman to the defense ministry, General Dawlat Waziri, said that E29 is good aircraft when it comes to close combat …

AT-KABUL: Armed Taliban militants have attacked four check-points of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) in Wata Pur district of Kunar province, security official said. Provincial Police Chief, Abdul Habib Saidkhel, told media that last night a policeman and two insurgents were killed in the clashes …

AT-KABUL: Civil society activists in northern Balkh province urged the government for explanation over brutal killings of policemen in Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province and alleged negligence of concerned security agencies. Civil society activists in a gathering on Monday expressed their condolences to the bereaved families of the victims …