Afghanistan Times

There is much obstacle to peace, but there are several strong reasons to believe Afghanistan could eventually become a peaceful country. US has signed pace deal with Taliban and the Afghan government releasing Taliban prisoners in an effort to end the war and enter to the next level of talks …

AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said it has recorded 168 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 3,392 across Afghanistan. Out of 701 suspected samples, 168 came positive, a statement issued by the ministry said. 67 new cases were …

AT News KABUL: There is more hope than before for slowing the COVID-19 pandemic, as the infections are rapidly rising in Afghanistan. “Confirmed cases are lower today than those of past two days,” said Deputy Minister of Health, Wahid Majroh, at a press conference on Wednesday. He said latest statistics …

AT News KABUL: The Presidential Palace has termed the Afghan migrants killing by the Iranian border police an “unforgivable crime”, saying that the ministry of foreign affairs is seriously investigating the incident. “Cruelly and inhumanity treatment that caused to the martyrdom of a number of our innocent citizens in the …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed condolences over the death of Mujahid Kakar, a journalist who passed away due to cancer. Karzai called Kakar as an inspiration to professional journalism and one of pioneers in reporting, who served in institutionalizing of freedom of speech in the country. The …

AT News KABUL: In a chain destruction of electricity pylons, two more were blown up in Parwan province, some 60 kilometers north of capital Kabul, according to the power company Breshna. The company said Tuesday in a statement that thee pylons were damaged in the Golghondi, highlander area close to …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Sher Abbas Stanekzai, Taliban chief negotiator, says ceasefire with the US-led foreign forces is intact but there is no ceasefire with the Afghan government forces as it is not part of the US-Taliban agreement. “A separate agreement will be discussed and signed with the Kabul administration …

AT News KABUL: Afghan Air Forces (AAF) has targeted a gathering of the Taliban group in which the red unit commander along 15 Taliban fighters was killed in northern Balkh province, said officials on Tuesday.  The airstrike carried out in Kushinda district at around 1:10am local time, said 209 Shaheen …

AT News KABUL: The US Department of State has condemned the Iranian border police’s brutal act against the Afghan migrants, saying that Iran’s “cruel treatment” and abuse of Afghan migrants is horrifying. Following a report published by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission over the vicious behavior of Iran border …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s warring leaders—President Ashraf Ghani and his estranged ally Abdullah Abdullah—appeared inching closer to a rapprochement as presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi talked about positive progress made in the talks between the two camps. Without give further details, Sediqqi in a press conference said, “There is progress, the …