Afghanistan Times
By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA Since the US and the Taliban signed an agreement early this year, prospects for end of the war and start of negotiation between the Afghan Government and the Taliban have become very vivid. According to the US envoy for Afghan peace, Ambassador Zalmai Khalilzad, the accord …
Read More »Editorial: Trump siding with the Taliban?
As experts state, the type of a future government and human rights would prove to be the key sticking points between the negotiating teams of the Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban. However, official discussions to elucidate that that’s the case haven’t even happened yet. It’s been a week since …
Read More »No letdown on education of girls
AT News KABUL: Standard Education Support Foundation has said that there should be no deal on education of the girls during the intra-Afghan negotiations. The foundation has welcomed the peace efforts to end the 40 years of war, but urged the achievements gained in educational fields during the last two …
Read More »China donates $7m in food aid to Afghan flood victims
AT News KABUL: China has donated foodstuff including wheat and rice to the flood-affected people in Afghanistan, Afghan officials said. Bahauddin Jilani, state minister for disaster management, said Sunday that totally 5,266 tons of wheat and rice were donated at a cost of 550 million Afs. He said that the …
Read More »Authorities to clamp down on illegal mining in Parwan
AT News KABUL: Officials in Parwan province assure to prevent illegal mine extractions. The comments came Sunday after illegal demining of chromite in the Koh-e-Safi district sparked controversies, with residents blaming powerful individuals of being behind the business. The chromie mine was discovered some 10 years ago in the Akhundzadagan …
Read More »Rising civilian casualties unnerves Karzai
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed deep concerns over the increasing civilian casualties by the recent bombing attacks. “We have witnessed violence in the country recently that has inflicted casualties on a large number of our country-fellows,” Karzai said Sunday in a statement. “The recent tragic incident in …
Read More »No civilian casualties in Kunduz raids; Defense Ministry
AT News KABUL: Defense Ministry on Saturday rejected claims about civilian casualties in a series of attacks in northern Afghanistan. People in Kunduz claim that 15 civilians have been killed and several injured in the wake of an aerial raid by security forces in KhanAbad district. They said the first …
Read More »Civilian casualties rise amid escalating insurgent attacks
AT News KABUL: Security officials say that the recent bombing attacks have increased civilian casualties. According to the officials, two civilians were killed and more than 20 injured in two bombing attacks Saturday in the provinces of Balkh and Paktika. “In two bomb blast incidents in the Janikhil district of …
Read More »Anxiety simmers after U.S. embassy warnings on possible attacks
AT News KABUL: People in different provinces of Afghanistan have been worried in the wake of a warning issued Saturday by the US embassy that terrorist attacks would probably target government’s civilian servants in the upcoming days and weeks. The human rights activists call on the war parties not to …
Read More »Watchdog alarmed by escalating hostilities in Afghanistan
Continued violence hampers peace talks AT News KABUL: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission sees rising violence and hostilities as a blow to ongoing peace talks between the government and Islamist militant Taliban. Escalating hostilities is very alarming and could hamper intra-Afghan peace talks if violence remains high throughout Afghanistan, head …
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