NAGPUR: India is planning to build affordable homes in Afghanistan meant for refugees in the country, as a part of its efforts to rebuild the war torn nation. There will be focus on sectors like irrigation and distribution of medicines too, said M Subbarayudu, the joint secretary for development partnership …
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AT-KABUL: Ten police officers and a woman were killed after gunmen opened fire at them outside a mosque in the northern province of Jawzjan, local officials said Saturday. The incident took place late Friday in Sardar village of the Darzab district when the officers were coming out of a mosque …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Deputy Head of Iranian Railway Company, Hossein Ashouri said Iran’s and Afghanistan’s railways to connect in early 2018, Mehr, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday. “Iran has constructed a railroad till border with Afghanistan, however the remaining railroad inside Afghanistan is expected to be ready …
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AT-KABUL: At least six leaders of the Islamic State (IS), aka, Daesh terrorist group were among 47 other militants killed in an air and ground operations carried by the Afghan security forces in Haska Meean and Bati Kot districts of eastern Nangarhar province,” the provincial press office said in a …
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Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: Reluctance on the part of rulers from both the neighbouring countries of recognizing each other’s sovereign and autonomous status is considered the main cause behind sealing of Pak Afghan border thus putting at halt all sort of trading and travelling. Not for the first time but formally, …
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Even their Pakistani Identity Cards wouldn’t help them as Punjab police and Federal Investigation Agency would block these cards after their arrests. By Afrasiab Khattak-It is official now. The Punjab police has issued written instructions to its personnel to keep an eye on people with Pashtun/Afghan dresses and food habits …
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Citizens Charter Program to cover the whole communities within one month By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) on Saturday said that 6,000 National Solidarity Program (NSP)’s development projects had been halted due to insecurity across the country in the past 14 years. The Ministry said …
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All set to criminalize the evil practice of “Bachabazi”—sexual exploitation of young boys who are forced to dress up like girls, and women, with a scenery penalties to those involved in the heinous act. The “play boy” at somehow become a subculture in the country, and the poor children have …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five engineers working for a road construction company were kidnapped by Taliban militants in eastern Logar province, local officials said on Saturday. The abduction took place late Friday in the Mohammad Agha district, said district governor Mohammad Nasir Amin. “They were travelling in the area without contacting …
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Hundreds of people from the political activists, members of civil society and other Kabul citizens gathered Friday to protest rocket firing by Pakistani army on the eastern areas of Afghanistan. The protesters demanded immediate stop of the shelling which has been reportedly targeting villages in the provinces of Nangarhar and …
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