Afghanistan Times
AT News KABUL: Many Taliban recently freed from Afghanistan prisons have rejoined the insurgency, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Dr. Abdullah Abdullah says, bringing a US-Taliban deal into disrepute which then undermines the goodwill gesture by the Afghan government for freeing thousands of insurgent inmates. “Honestly, I …
Read More »Abdullah rules out one country, two systems in wake of Taliban talks
AT News KABUL: Peace negotiations with the Taliban will never culminate in ‘one country, two systems’, said Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation. In a conversation with “Foreign Relations Council” think tank in the U.S., Dr. Abdullah ruled out the birth of two forms of …
Read More »Calls made for stronger media role in Doha talks
AT News KABUL: As Afghan government and Taliban are drawing roadmap for peace negotiations in Qatar, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Information and Culture and activists are demanding bigger media role in intra-Afghan talks. Media representatives must have a proactive role in peace negotiations in Doha, said Deputy Information and Culture Minister …
Read More »81,000 refugees returned from Iran in August
AT News KABUL: More than 81,000 Afghan refugees returned home from Iran within one last month, authorities said. Mohammad Reza Bahir, a spokesman for the ministry of refugees and repatriation said that the refugees came in via border gates in Herat. “Almost half of these refugees were forcibly deported from …
Read More »Afghanistan will never go back to dark days of 90s; Khalilzad
AT News KABUL: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad says that his country would not let Afghanistan to go back to the 1990s, when the country was burning in the flames of the civil war after the collapse of the Soviet-backed government. Khalilzad who was summoned to …
Read More »Militants cut off major highway linking Kabul to Ghor
AT News KABUL: The Taliban have blocked the Kabul-Ghor road for traffic for two days after the militants took control of the area, provincial officials said. Mohammad Mahdavi, a member of provincial council, said Wednesday that the insurgents have planted mines on the road. Mohammad Musa Kalim, district governor of …
Read More »Editorial: Flagging peace talks
With intra-Afghan talks stuck on technicalities in Doha, the level of violence across Afghanistan is terrifically high. Attacks by the warring sides have increased, with civilians being the victims of crossfires and bombings. Amid all this, there are constant calls for a ceasefire from various stakeholders of Afghanistan but to …
Read More »Four Daesh terrorists killed in Jalalabad
AT News KABUL: At least four IS-K or so called Daesh affiliates, were killed in a military operation conducted by the national directorate of security in Jalalabad, the capital city in eastern Nangarhar. Provincial governor’s office said in a statement that security forces sought to detain the terrorists alive but …
Read More »Afghanistan records 49 new cases of COVID-19
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 49 new coronavirus positive cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 39,145 across the country. Health Ministry said that out of 213 suspected samples tested in laboratories in the past 24 hours, 49 were reported positive. According to MoPH, 17 …
Read More »Shuffling in Afghanistan’s central bank roils Afghans
Among several other scuffles, mismanagement at the top rank government agencies is another factor – wreaking havoc in Afghanistan’s prone public institutions at this critical juncture. The abrupt terminations, hiring and rehiring in the government agencies are the other drive forces thought to be detrimental for the country’s already troubled …
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