Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Afghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi, who has dedicated her life to bringing education to refugee girls in Pakistan, has won the 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. According to a press statement of the UNHCR issued here, AqeelaAsifi, 49-year old, is being recognized for her brave and tireless dedication to …

AT-KABUL: The Attorney General Office (AGO) has called up two former Kabul mayors in the backdrop of corruption allegation leveled against them. Addressing a press conference, the AGO’s spokesman Abdul Basir Azizi said that Muhammad Younus Nawandish and Rohullah Aman, two former Kabul mayors, were summoned to give explanation over …

AT-KABUL: After deteriorating security situation on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway, the Afghan security forces has conducted an operation “Khanjar-II” in a bid to secure the busy highway for travelers, an official said. In a media statement issued here on Tuesday, the 201st Selab Military Corps in the eastern zone said that …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) expressed its deep concerns over raising incidents of child marriages across the country. The AIHRC said that efforts to put end to early marriages over the past 14 years, didn’t yield in any positive result. Qadria Yazdanparast, a commissioner of the AIHRC told …

“Pakistan can live for another century provided that Pakistan should not be used against Afghanistan” QUETTA: Chief of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), Mahmood Khan Achakzai, has said that the Pakhtuns are not terrorists and under a conspiracy, they are unwarrantedly dubbed as terrorists. Addressing the International Pashtu Conference …

Amid the horrors of war, the United States has overlooked Afghanistan by pulling out its troops. And the fallout is visible all around. This continues to be a year of tumult and heavy violence across the country, where both, civilians and troops are suffering unprecedented casualties. In the first half …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A teachers strike demanding residential plots closed down at least 71 schools in the southeastern Khost provinces. The teachers in Tanai and Gurbuz districts of the province launched a strike and said that they haven’t received the land plots allotted to them by the government. The teachers …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Special Electoral Reforms Commission (SERC) urged the government to form the election commissions’ selection committee this week. Seddiqullah Tawhidi, the deputy chief of SERC, said that the government should call members of the selection committee to hold meetings. He stressed that the office of administrative to …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) killed eight al-Qaeda fighters, including a senior commander, in Mokhtar Mina area of Gomal district of Paktia province. A press release issued by the NDS said the spy agency said that NATO’s Resolute Support (RS) also assisted them in the crackdown in which …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) or Lower House of the Parliament on Monday asked President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah to share important national issues with the lawmakers, aimed at finding viable solutions. Members of the Wolesi Jirga said the government officials should also tell the …