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AT-KABUL: Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi, Rural Rehabilitation and Development Minister Nasir Ahmad Durrani and Urban Development Minister Sayed Sadat Mansoor Naderi met Wednesday to discuss financial plans and developing projects. Budget expenditure considering efficiency and effectiveness, submission of construction projects of the ministries and government administrations to the Ministry of …

‘Ending imports with support of domestic product’ By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Industrial Association (AIA) on Wednesday has signed an agreement with Afghanistan International Bank (AIB) to offer loans to the industrialists aimed at upgrading industrial factories across the country. “This is the first agreement signed with AIB for a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorist group had kicked off recruiting process to bring more fighters in their militancy rank as already hundreds of recruited fighters  dispatched to Achin district to receive terrorist training, local officials in central Logar province said on …

AT-KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in a meeting with the NATO commander for joint command, called on the removal of terrorist havens beyond the Durand Line. “General Salvatore Farina assured that the NATO is ready for cooperation with Afghanistan in all military sectors,” Abdullah’s office said Wednesday. Farina added that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed and wounded at least 35 loyalists of the Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorist group during the ongoing “Shaheen-25 operations” in eastern Nangarhar province, official said. The provincial governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, said that air and ground operations, carried …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Umer Zakhilwal has held constructive meetings with the civil and military leadership of Pakistan on Tuesday, where he emphasized on reduction of tension between the two countries. Zakhilwal said, “I had a “very good meeting” with Pakistan Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan security forces on Tuesday foiled a plot to assassinate Mohammad Zahir Wahdat, the governor of Sar-e-Pul province. “A suicide bomber was detained before manage to detonate his explosives near me,” the governor said. The bomber identified as Najmuddin son of Khairuddin, Wahdat said, adding that …

By Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: At least seven persons were killed and 20 other injured in a suicide attack on Tehsil Courts at Tangi town of Charsada district on Tuesday morning. The killed persons included a lawyer and two children. Conditions of at least three out of 13 injured that admitted in Lady Reading …

AT-KABUL: Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi on Tuesday met with Mark Bowden, deputy of special representative of the United Nations for Afghanistan and representatives from donor countries and organizations, finance ministry said. “They discussed on women’s economic growth program, commitments for Afghanistan’s self-reliance based on mutual accountability framework,” it said in a statement. …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan and the US officials discussed the ways of counter-narcotics efforts in a joint workshop held on Tuesday in Kabul. The US Ambassador to Kabul, Hugo Llorens reaffirmed his country’s support for Afghanistan’s counter narcotics objectives at the event, the US embassy said in a statement. “All of …