Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Top U.S. and NATO led commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller alongside with Acting Defense Minister, Asadullah Khalid has held a meeting with prominent political leader, Abdul Rashid Dostum in northern Jawzjan province, where they discussed issues related to the country’s stability and peace process. “Gen. Miller …

AT News KABUL: Kabul has marked the top of the world’s polluted city, said the Assessment by Air Visual, a US and Swiss based air measuring company, adding that the city “has reached hazardous level of polluted wither.” But the National Environmental Protecting Agency has put the measures to a …

Globally, the number of HIV-infected people is steadily rising but the number of newly-affected people has decreased by 40pc since 1998. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 7,200 people in Afghanistan are estimated to be HIV-positive. This is while the World AIDS Day was observed on …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 65 militants were killed and nine others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

AT News KABUL: A deadly car bombing plot has been foiled during an operation conducted by the Afghan security forces in Kabul on Sunday night, official said Monday. Deputy Spokesman for Ministry of Defense, Fawad Aman said that security forces of 111 Quick Reaction Unit have discovered and neutralized a …

AT News KABUL: Members of parliament called on the government not to threaten political and human rights activists and stop pressure on them. The legislatives said Monday that the government was responsible to investigate murders of political activists. They said the government needed to protect the lives of political activists …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai is in China to attend the Sustainable Development annual conference, where he called consensus a need for stability in the region. Karzai said in his speech that the region needed peace and stability, thus, he added that to gain stability a consensus should …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of supporters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah came to streets in the provinces of Faryab and Takhar on Monday to protest the independent election commission for not invalidating thousands of votes they claim are fraudulent. The rallies were organized by Abdullah’s electoral teams who have been …

AT News KABUL: Some members of parliament accused President Ashraf Ghani and his government of misusing the national budget, calling for implementation of the constitution’s article 69 on him. The lawmakers said Monday that millions of Afs had been used by the president under the pretext of operative money. They …

Already having more than enough on its plate in terms of dealing with electoral crisis and peace with insurgents, Afghanistan is also faced with yet another huge challenge of dealing with narcotics – something that is the main source financing terrorism and contributing to the unabated corruption in the country. …