Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: After five days of continued fighting, Omna district of southeastern Paktika province has fallen to the Taliban, local officials said on Sunday. A security officials who wish to remain anonymous said that the district had been under siege for the past five days, and were collapsed on Saturday night. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Hezb-e-Islami Party of Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has said that they party is close to a final declaration on peace deal with the government, a source close to the group said. Negotiations regarding peace deal have concluded and preparation are underway for a final …

AT-KABUL: Following Ministry of Finance decision, the government will stop Safi Airway operation due to owe and taxes, the ministry of civil aviation said on Sunday. Safi Airways is indebted of over $17 million as the company has not paid taxes and debts from the solar year of 1390-1393, Ministry …

Justice is very expensive in Afghanistan as the research and survey reports reveal. Most of officials and influential people are using the laws for their own benefits. The law of the land is helpless before the armed groups. The recent clash between the two groups in the capital city, Kabul, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province thwarted an attempt to smuggle military equipment, including drone parts to Pakistan, a security official said on Sunday. One official wishing to go unnamed told Pajhwok Afghan News that Special Forces were dispatched from Kabul to eastern Nangarhar province …

AT-KABUL: At least one hundred-seventeen Taliban insurgents were killed and forty-three others wounded in different clearance operations conducted by the Afghan security forces across the county within past 24 hours, security officials said on Sunday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense, said that the Afghan National …

AT-KABUL: A passenger bus struck with a fuel tanker in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province Sunday morning in which at least 36 passengers died and 26 more were injured, an official said. The deadly accident took place when a passenger bus struck with a fuel tanker in Shahrisafa district of Zabul …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Saturday said that it will distribute 280 tons of saffron bulbs in order to increase saffron cultivation across the country. “Farmers would receive 230 tons of bulbs from MAIL and the rest 50 tons will be given by non-government relevant …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Kunduz-Takhar highway has been reopened for traffic after two weeks of conservative closure, a provincial official said on Saturday. Police chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh, told Pajhwok Afghan News the highway had been cleaned of militants during operations in Dokan Adam, Malarghi and Qushlaq Andarabiha of …

The Taliban are looking for financial sources to fund their subversive activities as the turf war intensifies. The war has stepped into final stage because those supporting insurgency in Afghanistan are under crippling pressure. International community has become tired of asking the certain actors to stop supporting the Afghan militants. …