Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Members of parliament ask for a revision over the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States, arguing the pact did nothing for security improvement. The Ghani-administration signed the controversial security pact with the United States on its second work day on September 30, 2014, a document that former …

AT-KABUL: At least146 militants have been killed and117 have been wounded in military crackdown conducted by national security forces over the past day, according to military authorities. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has reassured Afghanistan that it would support President Ghani’s peace plans to negotiate and reconcile with the militant Taliban movement, ZamanNews reported. Yusuf Bin Ahmed Al Uthaymeen vowed support to the efforts of President Ghani of calling upon …

AT-KABUL: National Directorate of Security – NDS – on Wednesday said its operatives had discovered and confiscated a truck loaded with ammonium nitrate in Paktika, which they believed would have been used for terrorist activities. NDS special detachment operatives succeeded to discover and seize a Hino model truck full of …

AT-KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says it would complete investigations over the fake ID cards within two weeks, while the parliamentarian election is to be launched in 40 days. “A committee is assigned to investigate the counterfeited ID cards and it will share the result of its work with …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan asks for more assistance from international donors to the drought-hit regions, saying there was a 61 per cent decrease in rainfall and snowfall last year. Drought is now another problem government and people have to confront with besides insecurity and war. State ministry for disaster management says it …

Political figures held a meeting on Wednesday to seek a solution to crises. Hamid Karzai, Sebghatullah Mojaddedi, Haneef Atmar, Yunus Qanooni, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Karim Khalili and other prominent politicians and national figures unanimously denunciated the Bilateral Security Agreement with U.S. as a futile platform and demanded it be revised. In …

AT-KABUL: Provincial officials have said that the toll from Tuesday’sfatal suicide bombing on a protest gathering in eastern province of Nangarhar has climbed to 68 and 165 wounded. A suicide bomber rammed into a throng of protestersin Mohmand Dara districton the highway between the eastern Jalalabad city and the Torkham …

School is a place where students going to purse knowledge – this has nothing to do with military, ideological and political issues. It is just a place where children go with sole aim of studying –nothing else. But on Tuesday a schoolboy was killed and three schoolgirls injured in one …

The recent wave of violence that left hundreds of security forces and civilians dead, underscores the growing insecurity in Afghanistan despite measurements taking by government to end long-year hostilities via announcement of ceasefire. But nothing has changed rather truce caused more bloodshed and the level of insecurity reached the poling …