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AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani reiterated that the legislative and presidential elections would be held timely, with the first in October and the latter in April next year. Ghani’s comments come while the armed opposition groups have recently intensified reactions to the government’s preparedness for the two elections, targeting voter registration …

KABUL: Foreign donors have flooded Afghanistan with more money than it can absorb, exacerbating corruption and fuelling the drawn-out conflict, US independent auditor John Sopko has said in an interview with AFP. The comments by the US government’s special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR) followed the recent stinging assessment …

The dilemma of tinted vehicles is the new controversy. Following a recent row of terrorist activities, it is feared that terrorists are carried in tinted cars. Amid the uncertainty, law enforcement has begun a marathon crackdown on vehicles with heavily tinted windows to take illegal and suspicious vehicles off the …

AT-KABUL: Gunmen in northern Baghlan province on Sunday morning abducted six Indians working in a power company, provincial authorities said. The Indian employees were abducted while they were traveling to an under-construction electricity sub-station in Khwaja Alwan district, said provincial governor’s spokesperson. Mohammad Haqmal confirmed that the abducted Indians were …

AT-Kabul: More than 9.9 million children are expected to get vaccinations against polio across the country within one week as part of a major health campaign by the government, according to officials. The ministries of public health and education on Sunday unveiled a second round of National Immunization Days (NIDS) …

AT-KABUL: An explosion in a mosque in the eastern Khost province on Sunday killed at least 14 people and wounded 36, local authorities said, marking a rise in election-induced violence. The mosque was being used as a voter registration site. An explosion hit ‘Yaqobi’ mosque at a time when locals …

AT-KABUL: A roadside bomb on Sunday claimed the lives of at least seven civilians and left another wounded in northern Faryab province, officials said. Faryab Governor Spokesman Jawid Bedar said that at least seven civilians were killed after a roadside mine went off early in the morning somewhere in Almar …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan welcomes the US proposal over a joint campaign with Russia in fight against terrorism, presidential office said Sunday, calling the alliance of both powers in favor of a robust war on terror. John Nicholson, general commander of the US and NATO troops in Afghanistan had earlier said that …

AT-KABUL: Afghan markets are not harmed by the decrease in business relations with Pakistan, the chamber of commerce and industries said, amid an unprecedented reduction in the two countries’ relationships. Khan Jan Alokozai, deputy head of the chamber, said that the commercial decrease badly harmed Pakistan’s economy and even some …

The commencement of the electronic National Identity Cards (e-NICs) is absolutely aimed at unifying the country—this is the intention only and doing the opposite would be in the great interest of the enemies who always making effort to divide us by one way or another. Definitely, the magnitude of e-taskira’s …