Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Farmers across Helmand are protesting that the wheat crop is being smuggled to Pakistan with considerably cheap prices. Wheat smuggling has even triggered a spike in flour prices in the southern Helmand province, farmers have said. If the government didn’t pay attention to the issue, they said that …

AT News KABUL: Ahmad Khaled Jalili lost his older brother in an armed clash between government forces and Taliban militants less than three weeks ago in the northern province of Baghlan. “My brother was one of thousands of youth who left this world with the peace-loving heart. He used to …

AT News KABUL: The U.S. point man on the peace process Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Wednesday and held a meeting with President Ghani, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, and former president Hamid Karzai. Khalilzad briefed the Afghan leaders on the progression of his …

AT News KABUL: The U.S. Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said he believes Trump administration will not pull American troops from the war in Afghanistan unless intra-Afghan negotiations culminate into lasting peace in the war-weary country. If the US leaves Afghanistan, Kinzinger said, the Taliban will use Afghanistan against the United …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan, Russia and the United States are set to hold a trilateral video conference in July-mid to discuss facilitating intra-Afghan negotiations, said Russian envoy for Afghanistan. Zamir Kabulov, Moscow’s point man on the matter, said the meeting would be held on 15th of June. “The negotiations will …

AT News KABUL: A recent military operation on the outskirts of Kabul city has unnerved former President Hamid Karzai, who strongly condemned the raid as an aberration. Mr. Karzai said the military raids are themselves a dilemma and that they do not present a solution to the Afghan dilemma and …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed condolences for the death of a veteran poet Haidari Wojudi. In a message, Karzai called Wojudi a famous and mystic poet, who starting composing of poems in his teen ages and wrote a number of articles about the classic literature of Farsi …

The Afghan peace process is on an upward trajectory in terms of progress and is inching the country closer to peace and stability. Invalidated speculations are floating that say the long-awaited intra-Afghan talks between the government and the Taliban would be held by the end of this month at the …

AT News KABUL: National Directorate of Security said on Wednesday that a large weapon cache belonging to the Taliban has been seized along with a drone used by the insurgent group. The intelligence agency said in a statement on Wednesday that the cache was discovered in the Batikot district and …

AT News KABUL: With 684 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, Afghanistan now officially recorded 22,143 coronavirus cases across the country. 21 deaths and 324 recoveries were reported during this period, counting the total dead as 405 since the spread of the virus in the society around three …