Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of Abdullah Abdullah’s supporters staged rallies Sunday in the northwestern province of Faryab to protest the “electoral fraud”. The protesters asked the independent election commission meet their requests and revoke the 300,000 votes that Abdullah (one of presidential candidates) claims are fake. The protesters warned of …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan senate committee has held a gathering to approve the annual national budget, a number of senators have accused the Acting Finance Minister, Hamayoun Qayoumi of money laundering. The summit was held with the absence of acting minister but the deputy financial minister, Zahid Hamdard has …

AT News KABUL: Some political elites believe that the ground has been paid for ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan and that the involved sides should not lose this opportunity. The politicians in a gathering held on Sunday has emphasized on creation of national consensus regarding Afghan peace process. “Peace …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health in a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the international day of countering the Human Immunodeficiency Viruses HIV, has said that nearly 3, 000 HIV cases have so far been recorded in Afghanistan. The gathering was held to improve public awareness about the …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission calls on the government and other entities engaged in disabled people’s issues to resolve their problems. The commission criticized the government for not taking the disabled problems serious, saying that there was no position for disabled people in the government’s senior …

AT News KABUL: An American military newspaper reports that the US air attacks launched to target Taliban militants, have caused increase in civilian casualties. The Stars and Stripes writes that in a very recent incident, civilians were killed and wounded in a US airstrike in Afghanistan’s province of Khost, adding …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan Council for Peace and Salvation (ACPS) on Sunday has said it would work on a draft along with different political parties and civil organizations to find way how to cope with current crisis across the country. Addressing a press conference titled “peace conference and essential proposal …

AT News KABUL: At least two people have been killed after Taliban insurgents opened fire on residents of Sar-e-Pul province who took out to the streets to protest against bad behavior of the Taliban group there, security officials said on Sunday. Ministry of defense in a statement said that six …

By Mohammad Mosa Ahmadzai Quarter of children in Afghanistan is deprived of education due to the current conflict and extreme poverty. Poverty deprives many Afghan children and force them to work from dawn to sunset in sever conditions to earn and support their extended families as they are the only …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Freed Taliban hostage Timothy Weeks says he never gave up hope he would be rescued during three “long and tortuous” years in captivity in Afghanistan. Speaking publicly for the first time since his release as part of a complex prisoner swap almost two weeks ago, the …