Nation

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hundreds of people came to the streets on Wednesday to protest against Pakistan’s aggression and cross-Durand Line attacks at the Torkham crossing. The protesters said that Afghans would never accept the Durand Line as permanent border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan’s intention to build a check post …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A solider gunned down four of his colleagues and wounded three others in the Jawand district of the western Badghis province, an official said on Wednesday, the latest of a series of insider attacks. “The insider attack took place in the Kotal Siah area on Tuesday,” Pajhwok …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is concerned about forcibly deportation of Afghan refugees and expresses strongly its worry about lack of extension of refugee card by government of Pakistan. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in a meeting with Mohammad …

Sartaj Aziz’s suggestion to Afghan government to offer Taliban something they can’t gain on battlefield indicates something which has not been spoken by Pakistani officials during last fifteen years. Analysis By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has recently said Afghan government should offer something to the …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Police said Tuesday that expats including foreign journalists can demand security services, if they think to face threats in the capital of Kabul. Chief of criminal investigations at Kabul police Feraidon Ubaidi told Afghanistan Times that for better security of the foreign citizens, Kabul police ordered …

AT-KABUL: 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 11 others were wounded in different operations within past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday. Defense ministry said in statement said that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and the National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted joint operations against insurgents …

AT-: Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai led an inter-ministerial delegation—consisting of senior civilian and military officials—to visit Islamabad, Pakistan, at the invitation of Mr. Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs. The Deputy Foreign Minister, accompanied by Dr. Omar Zakhiwal, Special Envoy of the President and …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the suicide attacks in Kabul and Badakhshan provinces that killed and injured a number of foreign citizens and innocent people. Presidential palace in a statement denounced Monday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul where 14 Nepalese were killed, nine people (five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians) …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Some 340 Afghan refugees had been detained during the past three days in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police source said. “Police have detained 340 Afghan refugees during the past three days,” Abbas Majid Marwat, Senior Superintendent of Police of Peshawar was quoted by Geo TV, as saying. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Monday gave vote of confidence to the nominee for defense ministry Abdullah Habibi, chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, and member of the High Council for Supreme Court Mohammad Zaman Sangari. Stanekzai achieved 161 votes out of …