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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An Iranian official has called Afghanistan as a strategic market for the Iranian businessmen. Deputy Mines, Industries and Trade Minister Mojtaba Khosrotaj on Monday pointed to Iran’s upcoming exclusive exhibition in Kabul, saying that such exhibitions were venues to hold dialogues with other countries and introduce the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: German interior minister said his country would help Afghanistan financially to reintegrate returned migrants. Thomas de Maiziere’s remarks in a visit to Kabul on Monday were overshadowed by the latest in a series of deadly suicide bomb attacks. “Germany, with some 850 soldiers in Afghanistan as part …

According to the international organizations, around 2.5 million Afghans live below the poverty line. Nearly 1.53 million people face food insecurity and 7.53 million others are threatened by food insecurity. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans suffer from malnutrition and hunger. Skyrocketing price hike and inflation are adding to the injury. …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Tuesday said that it has drafted a strategy to irrigate dry lands in order to increase wheat production. The strategy would lead the country toward self-sufficiency in wheat production within next four years, the ministry said. To finically support …

AT-KABUL: The “Voice of Caliphate” radio station of the Islamic State (IS) which is also known as Daesh, was destroyed in a US airstrike last night in eastern Nangarhar province. “Daesh radio station was operating since December last year. The radio station was destroyed and its five staffers were killed …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Women’s Affairs Minister on Monday criticized the political parties and social organs for their “symbolic existence”, asking them to take real steps for empowering women in the country. “Despite the existence of dozens of political parties and social societies, there has been no significant changes in the …

AT-KABUL: As many as 300 different projects will be carried out at a cost of five million dollars in southeastern Paktika province in the next solar year which will begin on March 21 this year, a local official said Monday. The rural rehabilitation and development director in the province Najibullah …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Kabul Municipality (KM) on Monday inaugurated a road after reconstruction in the west part of the city. The road has been reconstructed with the 3.35km length and 15.5 meters width with concreted pavement and electricity service in the Pul-e-Sorkh neighborhood at the third police jurisdiction …

Pakistan’s intensifying crackdown on terrorists is likely to victimize Afghans living there, many of whom could be forced to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan hosts about 1.5 million registered and about one million undocumented Afghans. After the 2014 terrorist attack on the army-run school in Peshawar in which more than 150 people …

India also nods for the third phase of 92 small development projects in Afghanistan AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Sawaraj on Monday in New Delhi. Indian primer reiterated New Delhi’s commitments to help Afghans in building …