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AT-KABUL: Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs calls the unemployment rate above 40 per cent. “Although there is no new survey regarding unemployment rate, but it can be above 40 percent in the country,” Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Nasrin Oryakhil said Sunday. She said that based on a …

AT-KABUL:  The counter-narcotics police have arrested two smugglers with 23kg drugs in Parwan province, a provincial security official said Sunday. Salim Noori, spokesman for Parwan police, said that the smugglers were arrested in an operation with 23 kg crude hashish in the Jabul Sraj district. “The arrested smugglers had skillfully …

Tariff increased by 25pc in 15 provinces to recover losses By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The state-run power distribution company announced Sunday that the cost of electricity would increase by 25 per cent in 15 provinces, underling fall of Afghani against the US dollar as major reason. The electricity cost two …

AT-KABUL: Sixty-four Taliban fighters were killed and 50 others wounded in different crackdowns in the past 24 hours, security officials said Sunday. In a press release, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) with the collaboration of the Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security …

AT-KABUL: Armed Taliban insurgents shot dead the wife of a police officer at his house in Darqad district of Takhar province, a security official of the province said Sunday. Noor Mohammad Hakimi, provincial police chief told media that, Taliban insurgents stormed the officer’s home Saturday night in the Noorkhil village …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that its operatives had killed a key Taliban military commander in the eastern Logar province. In a statement the NDS, identified the commander as Mohammad Rahim, saying he was killed along with two others accompanying him in the Khoshi district. …

AT-KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that Taliban deputy district chief with his seven colleagues were arrested in eastern Nangarhar province. In a press statement issued here, NDS said that its operatives succeeded to arrest Taliban deputy district chief for Rodat district of Nangarhar along with his …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Defense on Saturday said that the Shafaq operation was going on successfully and the Afghan forces imposed heavy casualties over Taliban across the country. “Afghan forces are moving forwards in the Shafaq crackdown and the Taliban have fled different areas across the country in the past two …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Ahmad Zia Massoud, special representative for the president in good governance says that abduction is hampering the trend of investment in the country. “The businessmen are not willing to invest in the country due to insecurity and abduction cases that left majority of our youth unemployed,” …

MOSCOW:  Russia regards Afghanistan as a close country, the two countries’ peoples have friendly feelings towards each other, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday at a meeting with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai. “We are glad to welcome you in Moscow again. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly …