By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior has received 4.9 billion Afghanis in half-yearly revenue this fiscal year, against 3.8 billion of the past year. Minister of interior Wais Ahmad Barmak on Sunday said the ministry’s revenue reached Afs 4.9 billion. Speaking at explanation of four years MoI strategy, he …
Read More »Bringing Taliban to table of talks, impossible: Sherpao
AT-KABUL: A top Pakistani politician said that fetching the Taliban militant group to the table of talks is impossible, rejecting the Taliban’s offer for direct talks with the United States as unjustifiable. In an interview published on Sunday, Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman, Aftab Sherpao believed bringing the Taliban insurgents …
Read More »Editorial: Trump Afghan strategy, a red herring
After months of meticulous negotiations with military and political pundits, the U.S. President Donald Trump finally announced his new strategy on Afghanistan – as part of which he is contemplating having to deploy myriad 4,000 surplus troops in the war-weary country. It is very ironic, though, because Trump had talked …
Read More »Counter-terrorism sweeps: 131 insurgents killed
AT-KABUL: At least 131 Taliban militants were killed and 36 others heavily wounded in counterterrorism military raids across Afghanistan in the past day. Ministry of Defense in a statement said on Sunday that Afghan army staged joint military operations with the Afghan police and national directorate of security to sweep …
Read More »$22m earmarked to counter poppy cultivation in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: Afghanistan is planning to inject funds amounting to $22.5 million into counter-narcotics program in the eastern Nangarhar province. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) has signed an agreement with the local officials in Nangarhar to implement alternative projects at a cost of $22.5 million in a bid to curtail poppy …
Read More »Imposing a single identity on others leads us to crisis: Mohaqqeq warns
AT-KABUL: Deputy Chief Executive, Mohammad Mohaqqeq warned that “efforts to impose a single identity on other people, will lead the country to crisis”. “Some efforts are underway to remove identities and impose one identity on the others. Such efforts are infeasible. We are Afghanistanis (citizens of Afghanistan) and give sacrifices …
Read More »A glance at revenue collection of Afghanistan
Ajmal Rahimi-Afghanistan is one of those countries which have less national revenue output. Over the decades it is considered as one of the poorest country in the world, after the toppling of the Taliban regime, economic and social growth once again breath—but yet to fully. Afghanistan and the United States …
Read More »Breakthrough in counter-terrorism campaign;70 Taliban rebels killed in Uruzgan raids
AT-KABUL: In a spree of military raids in southern Uruzgan province, as many as 70 Taliban insurgents were killed and 15 more rebels wounded, a military official said on Saturday. Khwaja Yehya Alwai, spokesman for the Afghan National Army (ANA)’s 205th Atal Military Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the …
Read More »Loya Jirga gaining momentum
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Nations General Assembly Security Council has evaluated security situation in Afghanistan and discussed the importance and need for Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the face of the ongoing national controversies. General Assembly in its seventy-second session; agenda item 39; the situation in Afghanistan, has provided …
Read More »Five cops martyred in tumultuous Zabul
AT-KABUL: At least five policemen were martyred after the Taliban insurgents ambushed an outpost in tumultuous Zabul province, local officials said on Saturday. According to the police, the Taliban militants assailed a police outpost in Mullah Dina area of Qalat city and salvaged weapons, the TOLONews reported. According to Zabul …
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