The Kabul Times Daily

The Kabul Times Daily
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Founder(s)King Mohammad Zahir
PublisherAzadi Print House
Editor-in-chiefNik Mohammad
Founded1962
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersAzadi Print House, 620 Eighth Avenue
Kabul, Afghanistan
CountryAfghanistan
Websitethekabultimes.com

The Kabul Times Daily (Dari: روزنامه کابل تایمز; Pashto: کابل ټایمز ورځپاڼه) is a state-run English-language newspaper in Afghanistan, initially established on February 27, 1962, as The Kabul Times. As of 2018, it had a daily circulation of 47,000 and is offered in both print and online formats.

Following the Saur Revolution, The Kabul Times was renamed Kabul New Times and began to print Communist rhetoric that was reminiscent of days during the Cold War and was highly confrontational towards Western culture.

The paper briefly stopped publication during the US-led invasion, resuming in March 2002.[1] Following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the editor-in-chief Hamidullah Arefi resigned; after a brief period of vacancy, Nik Mohammad was appointed as new editor and the paper was renamed The Kabul Times Daily.[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Kabul Times' 55th anniversary". Bakhtar News Agency. February 27, 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
  2. ^ supperadmin (2017-09-05). "The Kabul Times. · Contact Us". thekabultimes.gov.af. Retrieved 2022-05-18.


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