Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: A powerful explosion rocked Kabul city around 6pm on Friday. Initial reports indicate that a car bomb was detonated in the vicinity of Spanish Embassy in Sherpor neighborhood. Sherpor area is highly barricaded as Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum residence is located in the area and most of the …

AT-KABUL: A suicide blast carried out by a foreign women killed three children and an operative of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in eastern Nangarhar province, said a local official on Friday. Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor office, told Afghanistan Times that Afghan forces during a search …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani said that peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban will start within few weeks. Speaking at a press conference here on Friday, President Ghani said that Pakistan has vowed to facilitate the peace parleys. Showing meticulous optimism about results of the upcoming peace parleys, …

AT-KABUL: Construction works of the long awaited Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project will kick start in Turkmenistan on Sunday. President Ashraf Ghani is also expected to participate in the ceremony. The project is expected to create 50,000 jobs in Afghanistan. President Ghani while talking to newsmen said that Afghanistan has …

AIHRC must share the list of war crimes with public: Protestors By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hundreds of people swelled into the streets on Thursday and called on the government to kick off war crimes trials. The protestors marched from Dehbori square to Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)’s office chanting slogans …

Stop kangaroo courts, say women rights’ supporters   By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Ministry of Hajj and Islamic Affairs (MoHIA) and Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) observed the World Humans Right Day on Thursday here on Thursday. Speaking at the ceremony, AWN said that violence against Afghan women have not declined in the …

AT-KABUL: The chief of National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil stepped down on Thursday. His resignation was approved by the National Unity Government whereas unnamed sources said that General Massoud Andarabi was appointed as acting NDS chief. General Andarabi was Nabil’s deputy. Nabil was reappointed as an acting NDS …

At last, some of kind of signs of hope emerged. Afghanistan and Pakistan co-chaired the ‘Heart of Asia Conference—Fifth Istanbul Process. The bigwigs from across South Asia, China and the world, made the conference influential. It was marked by a warm welcome by high authorities in Pakistan to the visiting …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghanistan Drug Report 2015, released on Wednesday revealed that 12.6 percent of adults in Afghanistan are drug addicts. The Survey has been conducted by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics in a joint venture with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The Minister of Counter …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said that National Interdiction Unit (NIU) and Crisis Response Unit (CRU) in cooperation with Afghan air forces conducted 34 counternarcotics operations across the country over the past one week and seized around 86.172 tons of narcotics. Deputy Minister of Interior for Counternarcotics, …