Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Fighting in southern Uruzgan province between Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents has left thousands of families internally displaced, local officials said on Friday. TOLOnews reported that the internally displaced families have fled to the neighboring provinces. Provincial officials said that around 6,000 families have fled to …

KABUL: Pakistan has welcomed the peace agreement signed between the Afghan government and Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA). The agreement was signed by President Ashraf Ghani and the HIA leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday. In a media statement Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul said that Islamabad has consistently emphasized that there is no military solution …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Kazakhstan’s KazTAG news agency reported on Friday that approximately 100,000 tourists visit Afghanistan annually. According to the report, tourism sector generates one billion afghani ($14.5 million) a year. Spokesman for Ministry of Information and Culture, Haroon Hakimi, said the tourists visit 200 sites in 12 provinces of …

KABUL: An airstrike targeting Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Daesh, was conducted yesterday in the eastern district of Achin in which at least 15 civilians were killed and 13 injured. “UNAMA condemns the killing of at least 15 civilian men and the injuring of …

War is always ugly. It has no other face whether just or unjust. Thus, peace is peace. It cannot be made with one group while leaving the others to wage war. War has destroyed the country. However, it seems we are either very slow learners or do not want complete …

Dr Hani Baloch-“….an armed resistance movement takes place in the womb of oppression, its seeds are to be found in the eternal quest for equality and freedom.” Presently guerrilla war is being fought in many places between states and nations, like Baloch, Kurds, Palestinians, Tamile etc, for “national self-determination”. Guerrilla …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan’s leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday formally signed peace agreement. Long-awaited peace deal will be implemented now after the two leaders signed it. Peace talks with Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) started two years ago. “Ending war, rescuing Afghans from dependency on strangers and …

India says it conducted “surgical strikes” along de facto border, but Pakistan calls incident “cross-border fire”. India’s military says it has conducted “surgical strikes” on suspected rebels in Pakistan it suspects of preparing to infiltrate into the part of Kashmir it controls, a claim denounced by the Pakistani army as …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: After India, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, Afghanistan also come up to the fore and boycotted the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit to be hosted by Pakistan in November. The Presidential Palace Spokesman, Haroon Chakhansuri, confirmed to Afghanistan Times that no Afghan official would attend …

“Afghan government shall accept 80,000 deported asylum seekers or lose aid,” secret EU memo reveals AT-KABUL:  The European Union’s memo regarding Afghanistan has been leaked ahead of the Brussels summit making the aid to Afghanistan conditional on acceptance of at least 80,000 deported asylum seekers. Based on the leaked restricted …