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Afghanistan plans to launch its first online marketplace to allow local businesses to export products directly to world markets, an official said Thursday, the latest effort to boost the country’s stalling economy. The Afghanistan International Commodity Exchange Market will aim to provide businesses access to international traders online and boost …

The crew of an Austrian Airlines plane refused to deport an Afghan woman who is due to be returned to Bulgaria in accordance with the Dublin Regulation. 12 of Laila P’s supporters followed the police car she was being taken to the airport in and handed out flyers explaining why …

Civil servants, students and teachers prevented from fasting and restaurants ordered to remain open in Xinjiang region. China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open. Most Muslims are required to fast from dawn to …

AT-KABUL: Six passengers were killed and more than 20 critically injured, Thursday, in a traffic accident of two vehicles in southern Zabul province of the country, local officials said. A passenger bus bounded to southern Kandahar from Kabul crushed into a tanker truck in Shajoy district of the province this …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban’s shadow governor for northeastern Badakhshan province has been killed in an airstrike the other night, said an official source. A military official said that the Taliban designated governor for Badkhshan, Maulvi Imamuddin, along with ten other militants has been killed in an airstrike in Jurm district of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Following a string of defections and reported clashes with Daesh militant group, the Taliban on Tuesday warned the leader of ISIS against waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan. Daesh has never formally acknowledged having a presence in Afghanistan but fears are growing that the group is making …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Ministry of Urban Development Affairs (MUDA) on Tuesday assured people with average income of affordable housing schemes in the near future. Minister of Urban Development Affairs, Sayed Saadat Naderi, acknowledged that no poor-friendly housing project was initiated in the past 13 years. While briefing news reporters …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that four Taliban insurgents were arrested in an operation in Kandahar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that its operatives succeeded in arresting the Taliban commander along with his three fighters in a special operation conducted …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Tuesday said that maternal health was its top priority and would continue to upgrade mother healthcare services in the country. In a media statement issued here, the deputy minister for finance and administrative affairs of MoPH, Abdul Basir Sarwar, said the ministry was …

AT-KABUL: At least 109 armed Taliban fighters were killed and 96 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) …