Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan has suggested the Taliban to agree on an unannounced ceasefire, days after a high-level delegation of the militant group met the country’s foreign minister as part of a push to revive the Afghan peace process, according to a media report on Monday. The US too …

AT News Report KABUL: Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad and an interagency team, whose talks with Taliban halted despite nine round of discussions, is traveling to Belgium, France, and Russia and meet with the its leaderships on ending Afghanistan’s war. In Brussels and Paris, ambassador Khalilzad will …

AT News Report KABUL: Addressing a ceremony organized to commemorate the first death anniversary of General Abdul Razeq, the Interior Minister, Massoud Andarabi on Monday has said the Taliban leaders have no control on their fighters as the group’s leadership have been scattered in Qatar and Quetta. “Their provincial leaders …

AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive of the National Unity Government, and one of presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah has held a meeting with US visiting Congressional team to Kabul, headed by the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, where he said that the Afghan people are …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 33 militants were killed and one other 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 Report KABUL: The Stability and Partnership electoral team, led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, has demanded for the suspension of head of the secretariat of Independent Election Commission and its security advisor after some reports over conducting of a raid by security forces on National Tally Center of …

AT News Report KABUL: Political analysts and members of parliament say that the United States is concerned over political situation in Afghanistan, saying that two senior American officials came to Kabul with the aim of managing a probable crisis after the result announcement of the presidential election. The Kabul News …

AT News Report KABUL: The Chinese government is to host representatives from Afghan government and political leaders to sit in front of Taliban negotiators in the third round of the intra-Afghan dialogues, according to reports. Taliban representatives held talks with Afghan politicians including former president Hamid Karzai twice in Russia …

By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA Afghan defense and security institutions and their affiliate organizations are the main pillars of the State of Afghanistan and are guardians of the people, constitution, national riches and national interest of the country. At this turbulent time, Afghan defense and security organizations are positioned in the …

8th Herat Security Dialogue (HSD-VIII) By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: The question today is not why peace is missing in Afghanistan? The question is from which window we, the Afghan masses can get peace back to our motherland. It should be us, the Afghans, to raise the question that why war …