AT-KABUL: The Meshrano Jirga or Upper House of the Parliament strongly denounced the US drone strike on a funeral in the southeastern Khost province and asked the government to investigate the tragic incident. Deputy Chairman of the Meshrano Jirga, Muhammad Alam Ezidyar, on Sunday strongly condemned the US drone strike …
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NEW DELHI: State-run SAIL-led consortium’s ambitious multi-billion dollar steel and power project in Afghanistan is believed to have hit a roadblock due to security as well as operational and economic feasibility concerns. While a top-ranking source in the Steel Ministry said that the project has been put in “cold storage”, …
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AT-KABUL: Hundreds of Afghan and foreign Taliban fighters overwhelmed a remote district Saturday in northeastern Afghanistan in an area where the government’s influence has waned over the past two years, provincial officials said. Afghan security forces and the Taliban are locked in a battle for control over a remote district …
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AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai strongly denounced the US drone strike on a funeral in the southeastern Khost province. According to reports a drone strike on a funeral killed more than 30 civilians in Khost province. Hamid Karzai in a press statement issued by his office termed the drone strike as …
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AT-KABUL: Roadside bomb blasts have killed 12 civilians in southern Kandahar and Urozgan provinces. Muhammad Nayab, the spokesman for Uruzgan governor office, told Afghanistan Times that at least six people of have been killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb struck a civilian vehicle in Dihrawood district of …
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Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Parliament, on Saturday urged the government to introduce reforms in electoral bodies and provide details about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security and Pakistan’s ISI. A number of lawmakers said they are not allowed to …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that a group of four alleged suicide organizers detained in eastern Laghman province. The NDS said in a press statement that the spy agency personnel arrested the four alleged suicide organizers during an operation in Qarghaee district. The suspects named …
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AT-KABUL: Nearly 96 Taliban fighters were killed and 61 others were wounded in crackdowns carried out by security forces in different provinces. The Interior Ministry on Saturday said in a statement that the Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the National Directorate of …
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On May 11, Home Minister Rajnath Singh had informed Parliament that a Red Corner Notice was in existence against Dawood, accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts. New Delhi: India has identified at least five or six locations in Pakistan of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and the latest intelligence …
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“We want friendship with the people of Pakistan. We want all kinds of agreements with them. But we cannot accept any deal with the military and ISI of Pakistan as they have always pursued enmity with Afghanistan,” the former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. By Rahim Sarwan KABUL: Former Afghan …
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