AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is believed to welcome Afghanistan and Liberia as its two new members from its list of least developed countries (LDCs). The 10th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya from 15 to 18 December 2015. According to the WTO-bearers …
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Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Kabul has invited Afghanistan to join the recently established Islamic military coalition. The 34-state alliance is aimed at elimination of terrorism from the Muslim countries through exchange of intelligence information, military and security, training and providing equipment and forces where required. The …
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By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Government departments owe three billion Afghanis in unpaid electricity bills to the Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), spokesman of the power distribution company said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, Sidiqullah Tawhidi said that 25 government departments owe over Afs2.7 billion. All the government entities …
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AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) named Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, Baz Mohammad Mobariz, 27, as police ambassador, to encourage people to lend their support to Afghan National Police (ANP). Mobariz will represent ANP in international MMA events. Seddiq Seddiqi, spokesman for the MoI, said that the ministry appointed …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Paywond Afghanan Association (PAA) on Tuesday released a report revealing that female prisoners were deprived of their legal rights since arrest till end of the imprisonment term. The survey covered Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and Helmand provinces, where 53 people including inmates, released prisoners, legislative officials and …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Russian government has developed special programs to help Kabul and Islamabad to fight narcotics, a senior official said the other day. “In accordance with the Russian president’s order after the session of the State Council presidium, anti-drugs programs have been developed to help the relevant services …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, during a press conference in Kabul the other day said that the country would buy around 200,000 tons of wheat from Turkmenistan at less than 250 USD per ton and also intending to buy another 600,000 tons from Kazakhstan. Ghani said that he …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 11 civilians including children and women have sustained injuries when a rocket shell struck the residential area in Marja district of Helmand province on late Monday, the official said. The rocket was fired by the Taliban militants during their attack on security checkpoint. The provincial …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif is expected to visit Kabul soon in order to hold talks with the Afghan officials re resumption of second round of peace talks with the Taliban. Pakistani media reported that Gen. Sharif would be accompanied by a high-level …
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Comprehensive debates had taken place from time to time over failures and successes of the United Nations since its establishment in October 1945. The failures are more than successes. However, it is not what perturbs Afghans but the war-weary nation is upset over failure of this supreme global body to …
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