Afghanistan Times

“Without improved economy, administration and army, Afghanistan will not have a future at all. Afghanistan will disappear, will fall apart,” says Putin’s special envoy to Afghanistan AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Russia’s special envoy to Afghanistan said that Moscow has no peace plan for the war-hit country. In an exclusive interview with …

Unity among Afghans is stronger than calculations of the anti-Afghanistan elements. The civil war period is a dark chapter of Afghanistan’s history but we cannot change. It is also true that Afghans came under one roof for defense of the country. They will continue to do so no matter how …

By Maj Gen Ashok K Mehta (retd)-EVERY successive year, for over a decade now, New Delhi is rated in surveys as the most popular country in Afghanistan. This year, it bagged 64 per cent of the vote. Afghan Ambassador to India, Shaida Abdali, calls India a national partner. At this …

AT-KABUL: Farah police chief said the Taliban corpses were transferred to Tehran and their funerals held there. “Iran has cooperation with the Taliban. Dead bodies of the insurgents were transferred to Iran and they even held funeral for them,” said the Farah police chief, Toryallay Abdeyani. However, Iranian ambassador to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Leader of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP), a political party of neo-nationalists based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, stressed on participation of Afghanistan in Moscow trilateral consultation process on Afghan conflict and peace process. In a statement, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said that the Moscow trilateral consultation process …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three Afghan migrants killed and 10 others, including six children, wounded in traffic accident in Serbia. The Serbian interior ministry said the other day that a passenger car, driven by a suspected smuggler, swerved off the road and hit a barrier in a quest to flee from …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Following scores of deadly incidents that took lives of 14 journalists in the country, Nai-Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, a watchdog, said that 2016 was a bloodiest year for journalists in Afghanistan “Nai has recorded 415 cases of violence against journalists. Fourteen journalists were killed and 23 …

While the government and people of Afghanistan make efforts for more strengthening the so-existing ties with the neighboring countries, authorities of the latter countries, unfortunately, seem not to welcome the efforts and are trying to display an unfriendly image to their war-torn neighbor. The recent Moscow session in which diplomats …

AT-KABUL: At least 13 civilians were wounded after a Taliban fired a mortar shell hit a residential house in the eastern Nangarhar province, a security official said Friday. Provincial governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani said the incident took place in the Torghar locality of Batikot district early morning. “Seven children and …

The unity government has initiated different steps to improve security situation and reform state institutions. Some of the efforts were productive. Unfortunately, most of the steps did not yield good results because nepotism, corruption and mismanagement are ripe for greed and fraud. There is no denying that trust deficit between …