Afghanistan Times

As the political tensions rage in Afghanistan, the international community has also become fed up with the never-ending wrangling among Afghan politico. The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on all Afghan political actors to refrain from taking steps that would escalate tensions and undermine political stability. The jousting for …

BEIJING: No new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection were reported Tuesday in 26 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland, according to health authorities Wednesday, Xinhua has reported. The Chinese mainland reported a total of 406 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, including 401 in Hubei, one in Shandong, Shanghai and …

AT News KABUL: Political leaders including former president Hamid Karzai, presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Mohammad Karim Khalili, Mohammad Mohaqqeq, Hajji Din Mohammad, ANwarulhaq Ahadi, Batur Dostum and Salahuddin Rabbani held a meeting in Rabbani’s residence on Wednesday and discussed the problems and crisis came out after the announcement …

AT News KABUL: President Donald Trump in a speech in India said on Tuesday that he is expecting a peace agreement with the Taliban very soon to formally end the war in Afghanistan and withdraw some U.S. troops. “We’re pretty close in signing an agreement,” Trump told reporters Tuesday in …

Karzai Suggests Continuation of National Unity Govt AT News KABUL: Since a few days, former president Hamid Karzai and jihadi leader Abdulrab Rasoul Sayyaf have stepped in to intercede in the election dispute between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, as tensions risk ratcheting up into deeper political divide and casting …

Afghanistan had confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus pneumonia on Monday as numbers spike in Iran AT News KABUL: Afghan authorities have announced sweeping precautionary measures in the country’s west as they scramble to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Confirmed cases surged from one on Monday …

AT News KABUL: Amid a one-week reduction in violence between Afghan, US forces and the Taliban fighters, the security officials in southern Kandahar said that the Taliban had violated the agreement, setting attacks on three districts of the province. Provincial Police Spokesman Jamal Nasir said the Afghan Security Forces have …

AT News KABUL: Local officials in northern Badakhshan province said that a number of Taliban fighters have forcibly married teenage girls in the wake of ongoing weeklong violence reduction that so far went well. According to the provincial officials, four girls who are between 12-13 years old were forcibly married …

The Afghan masses have become immensely tired of war and bloodshed. They wish nothing but peace in their motherland. The past decades of war took almost everything from them, but failed to bring down their morale for peace to eventually be restored. Once peace prevails, the Afghan masses – as …

By Sabawoon Ahmadzai The national labor conference in Kabul April-May 2018 brought to light a number of issues impacting the Afghan labor force, which need to be redressed to fix the growing unemployment and underemployment rates in the country. In Afghanistan, there is currently a significant lack of decent subsistence …