Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga (WJ) on Wednesday welcomed recommendations made by the Special Electoral Reforms Commission (SERC) and asked the government to start distribution of electronic identity cards (e-ID cards). A number of lawmakers said that distribution of the cards is key to holding free and fair polls. Assadullah …
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TEHRAN: Iran’s Ambassador to Kabul Mohammad-Reza Bahrami and Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani discussed rewriting border signs and documents in Kabul. The Afghan government plans to increase the number of its customs offices alongside borders with Iran to make more income and to fight drug trafficking from Afghanistan to narcotics …
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AT-KABUL: Taliban insurgents on Wednesday claimed that dispute within the group ranks over the leadership has ended as Mullah Omar’s family pledged allegiance to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor. After death report of Mullah Mohammad Omar leaked, a major rift was seen between the new leader of the group, Akhtar Mansoor, …
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Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Khana-e-Ahzab Milli, a cluster of political parties, and representatives of different civil society bodies criticized the National Unity Government (NUG) on Wednesday for failure to create employment opportunities and pave ground for increased participation of youth in the government. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the political …
Read More »Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Employees of the electronic national identity cards (e-NID) department protested prolonged delay in payment of their salaries on Wednesday here. Around 100 employees of the department gathered before the parliament and chanted slogans in favor of their demands. They said that salaries of 1,000 staffers of the …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Minister of Urban Development Affairs, Sayed Sadat Mansoor Naderi, urged Russian business tycoons to invest in Afghanistan’s real estate sector. Naderi who is on a trip to Moscow, leading a government delegation, said that his visit to Russia is aimed to convince Russian officials to invest in …
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Historically close, ties today are being driven forward by many shared interests. By M. Ashraf Haidari: India remains an integral part of Afghanistan’s steady progress in institutionalizing peace, pluralism, and prosperity. Ties between Afghanistan and India go beyond the traditionally strong relations at the government level. Since time immemorial, the peoples of …
Read More »AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief of the Women Affairs Directorate of Daikundi said that cases of girls fleeing forced marriages in the province have increased. Zakia Razai said that forced marriages cause girls to leave homes in order to marry a person of their choice. She furthered that it is hard …
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The Obama administration has included Afghanistan in the list of major drug producing countries. The US President Barack Obama acknowledges that Afghanistan has remained the world’s largest poppy producer in the last 15 years, but gave us no clue about the spread. Most probably he wanted to blanked the fact …
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AT-KABUL: At least four people, including the chief of district police crime branch, were killed and 41 injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Paghman district of Kabul on Wednesday morning. The Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said that a suicide bomber rammed an explosive filled vehicle into the …
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