MoPH says 327 injured were shifted to hospitals By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 28 people were killed and 180 others mostly civilians injured in Kabul blast on Tuesday morning, officials said. “First an explosives-laden truck was blown up in the Pul-e-Mahmoud Khan neighborhood near a security office and latter an …
Read More »Abdullah postpones Pakistan visit
AT-KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah postponed his official trip to Pakistan after Kabul deadliest attack that killed 30 and wounded 327. Abdullah in his Twitter account said that after initial evidence of Tuesday’s suicide attack in Kabul, he decided to postpone his upcoming official visit to Pakistan. This visit was …
Read More »Afghan-Turk international expo held in Kabul
By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) as well as the Afghan and Turkish Industrialists and Trade Association (ATITA) jointly organized the sixth exhibition Tuesday in Kabul. 35 Afghan companies and 25 Turkish firms exhibited their products in 87 booths for four days that includes of electronic …
Read More »Over 200 people wounded in Kabul track bomb
KABUL: Around 24 people have been killed and at least 208 people were wounded in a truck bomb on the VIPs protection unit in the capital Kabul on Tuesday morning. A heavy explosion occurred in front of the unit in the 16th police district of the capital at around 9am, …
Read More »EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE AT RISK FOR CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN
KABUL – Children in Afghanistan increasingly struggle to access healthcare and education, the UN said in the report released Monday, ‘Education and Healthcare at Risk – Key trends and incidents affecting children’s access to healthcare and education in Afghanistan’. Jointly produced by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and …
Read More »Afghanistan asks trial for Setayesh’s murderer
By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of the Parliament as well as civil society activists on Monday called on the Iranian government to prosecute the brutal incident against Setayish Quraishi, a six-year-old Afghan migrant girl, raped and killed one week ago by a teenager Iranian boy. …
Read More »Around 200 militants killed, injured in raids: MoD
AT-KABUL: Some 200 armed insurgents were killed and wounded in separate raids during past 24 hours across the country, Defense Ministry said on Monday. Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a media statement, said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security …
Read More »Polio immunization drive kicks off in low-performing districts
By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health along with UNICEF and the World Health Organization kicked off the polio immunization campaign on Monday to vaccinate every childunder age of five years in the low-performing districts. The polio immunization campaign was launched in all districts of southern, eastern, southeastern regions …
Read More »Editorial: Nowhere is safe for Afghans
Afghan people are actually the most vulnerable in the world, more helpless than Yemenis, Iraqis and Syrians. Syrians are witnessing the flames of the war for five years and the war in Iraq in its eighth or ninth year and they are noticed as the war-hit people and are welcomed …
Read More »AISA opens first ever business innovation center in Kabul
Due to lack of government support 1024 factory are at the brink of collapse: Hafizi By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Monday opened its first ever business innovation center in Kabul to support innovators. “Through opening of business innovation center, a crucial step has been hold to …
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