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AT-KABUL: Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, Acting Minister of Financeand Chief Advisor on Infrastructure to Presidential Palace and Mr. KhalilSediq, Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank on Monday announced the result of IMF4th review of Afghanistan Economic and Financial Reforms. “After evaluating the Commitments, in the fourth review, the Executive Board of IMF …

With determination and effective contribution of the French Medical Institute for mothers and Children (FMIC) staff, the institute was able to receive ISO 9001: 2008 certification for Quality Management System (QMS) of patient care and support services in March 2009. FMIC became the first health care organization in Afghanistan to …

AT-KABUL: Military officials have said they are stepping up efforts in a bid to tighten security in tumultuous Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province. Pro-government forces have teamed up with security forces in eastern parts of the district to reinforce security in the area, with an ongoing campaigning period and …

AT Monitoring Desk-In an unprecedented move, the two neighboring countries of Afghanistan, India and China are undertaking a collaboration in Afghanistan. The two countries will partner to train Afghani envoys and diplomats starting next month, according to media reports citing government sources. A portion of the training will take place …

AT-KABUL: The National Security Directorate said Monday it has killed at least 8 members of the Islamic State group in raids in eastern Nangarhar province, the latest operation against IS strongholds there. A statement issued by National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that intelligence special detachment operatives have conducted operation …

By Pashtana Durrani-Most of the schools in the rural areas are shut down because of security risks or that they don’t have enough resources to run the school. Which leads to students not attending school, and that leads to stunted learning curve-children especially girls dropping out from schools. The children …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan asks for more assistance from international donors to the drought-hit regions, saying there was a 61 per cent decrease in rainfall and snowfall last year. Drought is now another problem government and people have to confront with besides insecurity and war. State ministry for disaster management says it …

AT-KABUL: The members of senate are concerned over the intensifying insecurity and increase in civilian casualties. They emphasized at their Tuesday session on calling the Loya Jirga to end the current crisis. They said that the security, political and economic situations were going towards crisis day by day, accusing the …

AT-KABUL: More than one hundred and forty Taliban militants have been killed andsixty two insurgents have been woundedinintense crackdowns conducted by Afghan defense and security forces over the past two days, officials said. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan NationalArmy (ANA) in collaboration …

AT-KABUL: While 41 days are left for a complicated Wolesi Jirga and council districts election, criticism over electoral commission’s independence and system efforts of orchestrating ragging election, is still highly persist. Grand National Coalition of Afghanistan said government has submitted a list of 400 candidates to the Independent Election Commission …