Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Residents in the eastern province of Laghman the other day have took out to the streets to give vent to their anger over killing of at least three civilians in an operation carried out by Afghan security forces. Residents claimed that the operation was carried out …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Economic relations between Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are developing dynamically, Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said at the opening of a trade exhibition promoting Afghan products, Trend has reported. According to the minister, Afghanistan – Azerbaijan trade turnover increased by 30 percent in 2018, and by 23 percent …

AT News Report KABUL: Six Daesh rebels were killed in a US drone strike in the Pachir Agam district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Friday. Provincial Governor Spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Afghan News the drone strike happened in the Sulaimankhel locality on Thursday night in which …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says that its computer system that is linked to the biometric has been inactive for the past one week. A German computer company responsible for technical issues of the election commission’s computer system, has sent experts for the solution, but an …

Despite pulling off a safer presidential election than expected, Afghanistan’s 28th polls are scrambling with legitimacy issue due to low turnout, in which the two front-runners already claimed victory before ballots are tallied and signaling they would not accept defeat. Election officials have hailed the recent election as the “most …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says experts from the German company of DERMALOG have been called to come to Kabul for resolving of problems affected its computer system that was hacked earlier. According to reports, Indian hackers broke the commission’s computers benefiting a certain presidential candidate …

The right of access to information is essentially the lifeblood of an informed citizenry because otherwise, in the absence of information, people remain in dark and unaware regarding their government’s performance. Afghanistan has made considerable progress since the Access to Information (ATI) Law was approved by the president in 2014 …

AT News Report KABUL: The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) claims of threats posed by some candidates and their supporters not to reveal evidences it holds about fraud cases in the September 28th presidential election. Naeim Ayoubzada, head of the body, said on Wednesday that they have reliable evidences …

AT News Report KABUL: The US Embassy in Kabul in a tweet on Wednesday called on “everyone to respect the time required” for the Afghan election organizations to finish processing the votes, saying it is “better to be right than fast.” This comes US deputy ambassador, Karen Decker after visiting …

AT News Report KABUL: The International Day for the Universal Access to Information was marked Wednesday in Kabul amid dozens of complaints made by journalists and media runners about many challenges they are facing in access to information. Reporters say that government officials do not share timely information with them …