Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Six passengers were killed and more than 20 critically injured, Thursday, in a traffic accident of two vehicles in southern Zabul province of the country, local officials said. A passenger bus bounded to southern Kandahar from Kabul crushed into a tanker truck in Shajoy district of the province this …

KABUL: Endorsing the Financing Strategy Agreement for the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), Afghanistan will receive $ 2.8 billion in grant assistance during the three years, a statement from the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday. From this assistance, the statement said that $1.2 billion would be provided to support …

Militancy and terrorism are the biggest and deadliest challenges to humanity in the current-day-world. Terrorism has been affecting the entire world, but the weaker nations are bearing the brunt. It becomes a painful moment when you find as a nation that your neighbor supports militancy on your soil. Often-times terrorists …

AT-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga said that Iran’s support for the Taliban is way more dangerous than Pakistan’s interference in Afghanistan. Senators in a plenary session of the Meshrano Jirga on Tuesday said that Islamabad is interfering in Afghanistan’s affairs for years now, but now Iran is also in the quest to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) said that peace parleys between representatives of the government and the Taliban in Norway are different from previous informal peace talks. According to sources, representatives of the government and the Taliban attended an international conference in Oslo, the capital city of Norway, …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban’s shadow governor for northeastern Badakhshan province has been killed in an airstrike the other night, said an official source. A military official said that the Taliban designated governor for Badkhshan, Maulvi Imamuddin, along with ten other militants has been killed in an airstrike in Jurm district of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The military forces of Russia and Central Asia must be prepared for any negative situation in Afghanistan after international forces are withdrawn, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday. “We see military cooperation with the Republic of Kyrgyzstan as a priority, and our cooperation is an important …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Following a string of defections and reported clashes with Daesh militant group, the Taliban on Tuesday warned the leader of ISIS against waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan. Daesh has never formally acknowledged having a presence in Afghanistan but fears are growing that the group is making …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Ministry of Urban Development Affairs (MUDA) on Tuesday assured people with average income of affordable housing schemes in the near future. Minister of Urban Development Affairs, Sayed Saadat Naderi, acknowledged that no poor-friendly housing project was initiated in the past 13 years. While briefing news reporters …

AT-KABUL: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has pledged to provide food stuff and non-edible items to hundreds of internally displaced families in different Afghan provinces. According to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Kabul and the National Disaster Management Authority of Afghanistan on …