Nation

By Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Insecurity, frequent political turbulences, withdrawal of foreign security forces, disappointing attitude of the government are counted as major factors for slow economic growth in the country. A government which is mostly run by donations has only one option to free itself from foreign influence and that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistani Federal Minister for Commerce and Industries said that facilities and incentives would be provided to Afghanistan under the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) aimed at increasing trade activities between the two neighboring countries. In a meeting with office-bearers of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: New Zealand is seemed confused over the Afghan mandate mission, because its defense ministry has not finalized the future course of actions and assistance. New Zealand’s defense ministry said that it would make a decision very soon about presence of the country’s security personnel in Afghanistan as …

AT-Kabul: Four persons were killed and 12 others all civilians wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into foreign forces’ convoy in Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on Friday, a security official said. Hazrat Husain Mashriqiwal, spokesman for Police told Afghanistan Times the attack was …

AT-KABUL: Taliban coordinated attack on an Afghan court complex in northern Afghanistan ended after seven hours firefight, where at least 16 people, including five police officers, were killed and more than 65 others were injured on Thursday, provincial officials said. The incident took place in Mazar-e-Sharif city, the capital of …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) vowed that within the next two weeks all health challenges in the governmental and private hospitals would be improved and people will not face with urgent health services in the hospitals. Nonstandard of health services in the governmental and private hospitals, importing …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL:  A presidentially-assigned probe team to investigate into the alleged discrepancies in the fuel contracts of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has submitted its report to the President Office on Wednesday. Talking to journalists in a press conference on Thursday, Hamidullah Farooqi, head of the probe team said …

AT-KABUL: Afghan solider, who killed one and wounded seven foreign soldiers, was serving in Afghan military for the past two years and took part in several counter terrorism operations, an official said. Military officials in eastern Afghanistan told Afghanistan Times on Thursday that the soldier identified as Abdul Azim, a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The second deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mohammad Mohaqiq, said that efforts are on to secure safe release of 31 kidnapped passengers through mediation of tribal elders. He assured that all the 31 Hazara passengers are alive and efforts are on to secure their release through negotiations. …

AT-KABUL: An Afghan army soldier opened fire on American troops in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday killing one NATO service member, said Nangarhar police chief. Fazel Ahmad Sherzad said that NATO troops in retaliation killed the assailant and wounded two Afghan officers. He added that the incident took place in …