Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Kabul police have detained at least seven people on charge of different crimes in fresh clampdown in the capital city within 24 hours. Seven people were arrested in connection to plundering, robbery, carrying illegal arms and crooking during crackdown by police, Kabul Police Press Disk said on …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Interior has denied the White House report about the surge of opium product in Afghanistan, saying that there has been significant reduction in narcotics product in the country as the counter narcotic police conducting several raids to destroy it. White House Office of National …

AT News KABUL: Election commission has said it is geared up for the conduct of a partial recount of contested ballots with the complaints tribunal already concluded its drawn-out investigations into myriad complaints alleging massive fraud in 2019 presidential race. This is as the electoral complaints commission announced Saturday that …

Over past few years, government of Afghanistan has oscillated from isolation and faux pas to debacle, and back – with its popularity at lowest ebb. Issues that haunt and magnify government’s default fall in sphere of governance, war, insecurity, political instability and corruption. Aside from the armed opposition and elusive …

AT News KABUL: At least 71 Taliban militants have been killed and two 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 Saturday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

By Mansoor Faizy Afghanistan is a country where peace is still a distant dream for its citizens. Its people have suffered decades of unrest and infighting. Fighting has not subsided even as political and diplomatic efforts intensify. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of an imposed, grisly war. In one …

AT News KABUL: Amid a tough fight against militancy in Afghanistan, Kandahar authorities have said that more than 76 Taliban militants have been killed following ground and aerial military strikes by Afghan and foreign forces in the province. Sputnik quoted Kandahar Police Chief Spokesperson as saying that security forces staged …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of people in Ghor and Herat have called in droves for a swift start of the long-awaited negotiations between the Kabul government and the Taliban – expected to take place after a US-Taliban peace deal aimed at ending conflict in the country. There have been eleven …

AT News KABUL: Two key leaders of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist leaders were recently killed mysteriously in Kabul, Afghanistan, the group confirmed late Thursday night. Sheikh Khalid Haqqani, the former deputy chief of TTP and member of the group’s central committee, along with another commander Qari Saif Peshawari …

AT News KABUL: Northern Badakhshan province still does not have any suspected cases of the novel coronavirus, provincial health director said – a surety that came from findings of mobile health teams dispatched in 7 districts bordering Tajikistan. This is two days ago, authorities had said that borders to Tajikistan …