Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: A member of senate criticized President Ghani for freeing Anas Haqqani, a senior member of the Haqqani network, calling the move “premature”. President Ghani said Tuesday that Haqqani along with two other Taliban leaders would be conditionally freed in exchange of the freedom of two lecturers …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: EU Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini said Tuesday they were awaiting preliminary results of Afghanistan’s presidential election to be announced. Addressing reporters after the EU Council of Foreign Affairs, she said the EU discussed post-presidential election situation in Afghanistan. “We are still waiting for the preliminary …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 39 militants were killed and five 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 Tuesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

The government of Afghanistan has decided to release Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid, three Haqqani Network commanders in exchange for the release of Kevin King, an American and Timothy Weeks, an Australian lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan who were kidnapped in 2016. It is unclear …

AT News Report KABUL: Some of presidential candidates protested the recount of the September 28 polls, calling for the formation of an interim administration and a runoff in the polls. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is one of the candidates who insists on the interim government and the resignation of the government leaders. …

AT News Report KABUL: Addressing at a press conference in Kabul, Presidential hopeful Rahmatullah Nabil has called on the Afghan masses to stand against “Fraudulent Votes”, emphasizing that the corrupted votes, which are under recounting by the Independent Election Commission (IEC), need to be separated and cleaned. Referring to a …

AT News Report KABUL: The 2nd Joint India-China Capacity Building Program for Afghan Diplomats is being held at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the Ministry of External Affairs of India from November 11 to 23 November 2019. 10 young diplomats from Afghanistan are participating in the Course, India’s External …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed regrets over the demise of prominent journalist, writer and human and women’s rights activist Qamara Achakzai Wakili. Karzai said that Ms. Wakili served the people of Afghanistan as a teacher, journalist and government employee, and wrote several valuable articles. Karzai called …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces have cleared Qarghan and Andkhoi districts of northern Faryab province from presence of the Taliban insurgents during latest operations. Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) conducted operations and cleared all villages of Andkhoy and Qarghan districts from Taliban presence, Ministry of …

AT News Report KABUL: Six Taliban mine planters were killed as their explosive devices went off prematurely in southern Paktia and northern Kunduz provinces, officials said on Monday. Four Taliban mine planters were killed by own bomb blast while they were planting a roadside bomb in Andar region, Chamkani district …