AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Officials in Ghazni province have adopted a whole unique way to fight corruption as they shaved heads of two lecturers. According to a news report published by Khaama Press on Friday, the provincial Attorney General Office (AGO) officials have launched probe into allegations leveled against the two …
Read More »Drone strike kills eight militants in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: The US drone strike killed eight militants in the eastern Nangarhar province, said an official in the province. Hazrat Husain Mashriqiwal, spokesman for Nangarhar police, said that the US forces carried out the airstrike in Mohmand Dara district of the province. He added that the strike targeted two vehicles …
Read More »Afghanistan can join BTK railway project: Afghan envoy
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to Azerbaijan said that Afghanistan had the opportunity to join the important Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project which will help the country to speed up the rebuilding process. Mohammad Taqi Khalili told Trend News Agency, that Afghanistan could join the railway project through the Lapis Lazuli …
Read More »Afghanistan to launch online marketplace
Afghanistan plans to launch its first online marketplace to allow local businesses to export products directly to world markets, an official said Thursday, the latest effort to boost the country’s stalling economy. The Afghanistan International Commodity Exchange Market will aim to provide businesses access to international traders online and boost …
Read More »Airline crew refuse to deport Afghan woman
The crew of an Austrian Airlines plane refused to deport an Afghan woman who is due to be returned to Bulgaria in accordance with the Dublin Regulation. 12 of Laila P’s supporters followed the police car she was being taken to the airport in and handed out flyers explaining why …
Read More »China bans Ramadan fasting in mainly Muslim region
Civil servants, students and teachers prevented from fasting and restaurants ordered to remain open in Xinjiang region. China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open. Most Muslims are required to fast from dawn to …
Read More »Road accident claims six lives in Afghanistan’s Zabul
AT-KABUL: Six passengers were killed and more than 20 critically injured, Thursday, in a traffic accident of two vehicles in southern Zabul province of the country, local officials said. A passenger bus bounded to southern Kandahar from Kabul crushed into a tanker truck in Shajoy district of the province this …
Read More »Afghanistan to receive $2.8 billion from ARTF
KABUL: Endorsing the Financing Strategy Agreement for the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), Afghanistan will receive $ 2.8 billion in grant assistance during the three years, a statement from the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday. From this assistance, the statement said that $1.2 billion would be provided to support …
Read More »Of Iran, Daesh and govt’s silence
Militancy and terrorism are the biggest and deadliest challenges to humanity in the current-day-world. Terrorism has been affecting the entire world, but the weaker nations are bearing the brunt. It becomes a painful moment when you find as a nation that your neighbor supports militancy on your soil. Often-times terrorists …
Read More »Iran’s support for Taliban more dangerous than Pakistan’s interference: Senate
AT-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga said that Iran’s support for the Taliban is way more dangerous than Pakistan’s interference in Afghanistan. Senators in a plenary session of the Meshrano Jirga on Tuesday said that Islamabad is interfering in Afghanistan’s affairs for years now, but now Iran is also in the quest to …
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