Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: The 2nd Joint India-China Capacity Building Program for Afghan Diplomats is being held at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the Ministry of External Affairs of India from November 11 to 23 November 2019. 10 young diplomats from Afghanistan are participating in the Course, India’s External …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed regrets over the demise of prominent journalist, writer and human and women’s rights activist Qamara Achakzai Wakili. Karzai said that Ms. Wakili served the people of Afghanistan as a teacher, journalist and government employee, and wrote several valuable articles. Karzai called …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces have cleared Qarghan and Andkhoi districts of northern Faryab province from presence of the Taliban insurgents during latest operations. Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) conducted operations and cleared all villages of Andkhoy and Qarghan districts from Taliban presence, Ministry of …

AT News Report KABUL: Six Taliban mine planters were killed as their explosive devices went off prematurely in southern Paktia and northern Kunduz provinces, officials said on Monday. Four Taliban mine planters were killed by own bomb blast while they were planting a roadside bomb in Andar region, Chamkani district …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 37 militants were killed and three 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 Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

AT News Report KABUL: Walid Tamim who is charged with three embezzlement and other corruption cases, has been appointed as deputy finance minister for custom offices and incomes, the attorney general office says. Officials in the attorney general say that Tamim’s cases were under investigation and would be shared with …

AT News Report KABUL: The Stars and Stripes reports that the US military would use the largest warplane equipped by laser weapons in the war in Afghanistan. It quoted US military officials as saying on Sunday that the AC-130 Ghostrider gunship flies over Afghan airspace almost every night and is …

A new blow to the Afghan presidential election came on Sunday as the incumbent CEO Abdullah Abdullah, also a presidential candidate and longtime rival of President Ashraf Ghani, withdrew his team of observers from the ongoing official vote recount process – which the Independent Election Commission (IEC) began despite opposition …

AT News Report KABUL: An airstrike in central Logar province has killed the assassins of the Paktika judges, who have lost their lives in a Taliban ambush in Mohammad Agha district of Logar last week, military officials said Sunday Head of Logar provincial council, Hasibullah Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News …

AT news Report KABUL: The level of women presence in the security forces rankings has been increased to 30 percent, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in report. According to SIGAR, the female number in the Afghan security forces has jumped up from 4,495 of last year …