AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Islamabad has decided to begin registration of unregistered Afghan refugees next month. The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) of Pakistan has been assigned to register all unregistered refugees within six months. The process is expected to start on July, 25. The NADARA will set up 21 …
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AT-KABUL: Political and security affairs analysts tagged Pakistan’s policies towards Afghanistan as “dual and deceptive” and said the ties were more about geo-strategy than geo-economics as Afghan traders were forced to remain struck by bureaucratic hurdles in the neighboring country. In a monthly gathering of the Rana Think Tank, the …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Ministry of Defense (MoD) rejected the recently published report which claimed 75 increase in Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) casualties in the current year. Spokesman for the defense ministry, General Dawlat Waziri, acknowledged increase in security forces casualties, but said that figures in the report were exaggerated …
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KABUL — As he listened, Wali Mohammad Darwazi’s worst fears came true. His 23-year-old son, Mohammad Rafi, had vanished two months before with several former classmates from Kabul University. Now, Darwazi was on the phone with one of the classmates, whom he had reached in Syria. “Rafi has been martyred,” …
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AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani extended the term of the current parliament and said lawmakers would continue working until results of a new election were announced. The five year long mandate of the current parliament is set to be ended on June 22, but the election, scheduled for April, was delayed …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India will invest at least $9 million to build Charikar water supply system in central Parwan province which will be completed within a year, local official said on Friday. Quoted by Pajhwok Afghan News, the director of technical services, Himat said completion of the project will fill …
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AT-JALALABAD: Hundreds of residents of eastern Nangarhar province took to streets to protest against week-long power breakdown. The protestors blocked Kabul-Jalalabad highway for several hours. They blamed the government for turning its blind eye to the issue. According to sources, militants in Uzbin area have cut electricity transmission lines which …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Officials in Ghazni province have adopted a whole unique way to fight corruption as they shaved heads of two lecturers. According to a news report published by Khaama Press on Friday, the provincial Attorney General Office (AGO) officials have launched probe into allegations leveled against the two …
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AT-KABUL: The US drone strike killed eight militants in the eastern Nangarhar province, said an official in the province. Hazrat Husain Mashriqiwal, spokesman for Nangarhar police, said that the US forces carried out the airstrike in Mohmand Dara district of the province. He added that the strike targeted two vehicles …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to Azerbaijan said that Afghanistan had the opportunity to join the important Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project which will help the country to speed up the rebuilding process. Mohammad Taqi Khalili told Trend News Agency, that Afghanistan could join the railway project through the Lapis Lazuli …
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