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AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC) termed unemployment, drug addiction and insecurity as great challenges before youth. The Deputy Minister for Youth Affairs in the MoIC, Temor Shah Ishaqzai, while talking to a gathering of youth in Kabul, said that unemployment usually compel youth to join militant groups. …
Read More »Law on Access to Information: Authorities deny cooperating with media
By Safiullah Amani-KABUL: Nai Supporting open Media in Afghanistan, a watchdog, on Monday expressed concerns over the authorities cold-shoulder response to the media-persons when approached for information of public interest. Chief of the Nai said that despite approval of the Access to Information Law, the officials were using delaying tactics …
Read More »Two students, teacher killed in rocket attack on school in Logar
AT-KABUL: Two students and a teacher were killed when a rocket hit a school in the central Logar province on Sunday, said an official. The Ministry of Education in a statement said that the rocket hit Topak primary school in Baraki Barak district of the province. The rocket attack killed …
Read More »Senate ratifies Kabul-Ankara strategic pact
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Senate on Sunday approved a strategic cooperation agreement between Kabul and Ankara. The agreement was endorsed by Wolesi Jirga—the Lower House of the parliament—in May and later was sent to Meshrano Jirga, the Upper House. The strategic pact was signed between Afghan and Turkish presidents in …
Read More »Justice Minister vows to retake usurped state lands
Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Minister of Justice, Abdul Basir Anwar, on Sunday said that those who grabbed the state-owned lands in the past 13 years would be brought to the books. Addressing a press conference, the minister vowed that usurped properties would be retaken from the grabbers while enforcing the court …
Read More »Protestors in Kapisa call on govt to scrap intelligence deal with ISI
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An intelligence sharing deal between National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) this month has earned severe criticism across the country. Venting their anger, over 600 protesters took to the streets in the capital of central Kapisa province and condemned the NDS-ISI …
Read More »NDS busts Haqqani-linked terror group
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that a group of terrorists, having links with the Haqqani Network, had been busted in Paktia province. According to a press statement issued here, the NDS operatives arrested 10 terrorists led by Abdul Wahab Sherindil in Paktia. The detained alleged …
Read More »Rising number of IDPs is worrying: Watchdog
AT-KABUL: The Civilian Protection Group (CPG), a non-governmental organization, on Sunday expressed concerns over rising numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and demanded of the government to provide facilities to the IDPs and restore security in the restive provinces. Quoting local and international organizations, the group said that estimated 800,000 …
Read More »UAE pledges to equip Afghan forces
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pledged to equip Afghan security forces with modern weapons. This comes at a time that the Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum during an official trip to the UAE has recently urged the country to support Afghan forces. Sultan Faizi, media advisor …
Read More »Wolesi Jirga throws weight behind public uprisings
Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga said on Saturday that public uprisings were very effective to maintain law and order situation in those parts of the country where militants pose serious security threats. The lawmakers said that due to public uprisings the government was able to bring in …
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