Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: At least 33 Taliban militants have been killed and seven others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

The only potent source which people rely on and hope will ensure their rights and the public order is the current 16-year-old Constitution of Afghanistan. But recent developments show that with the help of apparent impunity, everybody has partaken in disregarding this supreme law in whatever way they could. January …

AT News KABUL: Former spy chief and presidential runner, Rahmatullah Nabil has said the Taliban would get access to the air defense system if the ongoing peace talks didn’t reach a positive solution by “this spring or summer”. “Given the recent developments in the region, I think if the US-Taliban …

AT News KABUL: Government has implemented an unprecedented pollution crackdown in recent days as tens of manufacturing factoring is being shut down. The effort is aimed at addressing Kabul’s infamous pollution and is feared to affect swaths of manufacturing sector. Tens of factories that produced smoke affecting air have been …

The incumbent President Ashraf Ghani had inherited a reserve aggregate of over $7.5b from the erstwhile president Hamid Karzai’s government when he took office in 2014 AT News KABUL: Sources close to government say that the government has demanded 10 billion Afs from Central Bank as it has faced lack …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s electoral complaints commission said Sunday it has identified more than 3,272 election offences out of thousands of complaints that could possibly lead to a runoff vote. Primary results of Afghanistan’s controversial presidential race were announced two weeks ago after over three months of drawbacks over allegations …

The incident in the neighborhood in western Kabul, which is often a scene of mugging, is the latest case of violent crime to affect the city, where crime rates and spree of street violence have soared AT News A 22-year-old young man was stabbed to death in Kabul after being …

AT News In the wake of the killing of a powerful Iranian commander in Iraq, there is a palpable fear among the Taliban that the latest escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States could badly en danger Afghanistan’s fledgling peace talks. The militant group is worried the rising …

AT News KABUL: Roland Kobia, the European Union Special Envoy for Afghanistan has expressed anxiety over the possibly damaged to the Afghan peace talks due to the recent escalation in Iraq, saying that “Afghanistan is again squeezed in power politics but this time the Game is not so Great.” The …

AT News KABUL: Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Idrees Zaman met with the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Kabul Ms. Alison Blake, on Sunday, where they shed lights over important issues. At the outset, both sides expressed concerns over the escalations in the region as well as discussed issues …