Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan Analysts’ Network rejects reports made by the independent election commission on the voters’ turnout in the Saturday’s presidential election as questionable. The network said Tuesday that the figures of turnout were different in many provinces. It cited the commission’s report in Wardak province that …

AT News Report KABUL: A presidential candidate claims that the number of people took part in Saturday’s election was not more than one million. Sayed Noorullah Jalili, said on Tuesday that ballots more than one million would be counterfeited, calling on the election commission to separate credible and incredible ballots …

AT News Report KABUL: The ministry of foreign affairs said on Tuesday that a delegation from government would meet Taliban representatives in the near future. Meanwhile, Taliban’s political office in Qatar has also said that peace was a desire of Afghans and nobody would make obstacles. Taliban’s office has said …

 AT News Report KABUL: Russia has a plan to organize a meeting on the Afghan peace process in Moscow this month, says a senior diplomat. Representatives from Russia, the United States, China and Pakistan would take part in the international meeting, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan said. Zamir Kabulov, …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has applauded the courage of Afghan voters, poll workers and security forces for making the presidential election possible. In a tweet, Pompeo stressed the need for transparency in upcoming stages and investigation into complaints. “We applaud the courage of Afghan …

AT News Report KABUL: Some political analysts warn that a new electoral crisis would happen, a statement after two allegedly frontrunners in the presidential election (Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah) claimed victory. Abdullah on Monday told reporters that he was the winner of the fourth election, an allegation that encouraged …

AT News Report KABUL: Ministry of Education (MoE) has said it has granted loan facilities to around 1,650 needy teachers in Kabul province in the past seven months. MoE in a statement on Monday said that the teachers were in the city and districts of Kabul. Moreover, around 200 teachers …

AT News Report KABUL: A presidential candidate Rahmatullah Naibl has accused the leaders of the National Unity Government (President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah) for a low turnout of the Afghan masses on September 28th presidential elections, calling it a hard slap in the face of them.  In …

AT News Report KABUL: The Chairman of the Afghan Senate or Upper House of Parliament or (Mishrano Jirga), Fazel Hadi Muslimyar has warned the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to consider the none-biometric votes as valid, saying that he would force the commission to count these votes casted by people across …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan National Security Advisor, Hamdullah Mohib has held a meeting with UN Secretary General, António Guterres on Monday in New York, where both sides discussed the Afghan election, security issues and the peace process. The National Security Council in a statement said that Guterres has declared …