By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Minister of Public Health, Firozuddin Firoz, on Monday said the ministry has failed to spend part of its development budget in past five months due to lack of capacity and human resources, and that this issue has affected healthcare services in the country. Firoz said that they …
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Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) on Monday expressed concerns over secret peace talks with the Taliban, and termed the closed-door-negotiations fruitless. The MPs said that talks between the Taliban and Afghan officials would end nowhere as Afghan security forces were rendering sacrifices without any pause. Monawar …
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TACOMA: The US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers in 2012 says he had lost compassion for Iraqis and Afghans over the course of his four combat deployments. The News Tribune newspaper of Tacoma used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain an eight-page letter former Staff Sgt Robert Bales …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah, during his visit to Tajikistan met with a number of Tajik leaders, including Tajik President, Emomali Rahmon, where they discussed expansion of bilateral ties between the two countries. According to the Chief Executive’s office, the Tajik President in his meeting with Abdullah …
Read More »KABUL: The nine deminers who were abducted by unidentified gunmen have been released in central Logar province, an official said on Monday. A day earlier, the Taliban militants abducted nine de-miners of Halo Trust organization along with their vehicle in Daud Khail area in Pul-i-Alam district. Din Mohammad Darwaish, governor …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The General Directorate of National Procurement (GDNP) on Sunday said that Afs520 million has been saved in 17 contracts of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) after assessment by procurement commission, chaired recently by President Ashraf Ghani. Chief of the GDNP, Yama Yari, said that in the 10th …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s premier spy agency, on Sunday rescued two children from the clutches of the Taliban, who were allegedly forced to carry out suicide attacks. In a press statement issued here, the spy agency said that its operatives carried out a raid in the …
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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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