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AT-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Sunday signed an agreement with the European Union (EU) to foster healthcare services for mental and disabled patients. Minister of Public Health, Ferozuddin Feroz, said that based on the agreement the EU would provide eight million Euros to the ministry in order to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Director General of Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Headquarters for International Relations Mahmoud Bayat said that global support is needed to curb poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. In a meeting with the European Union special envoy to Afghanistan Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin in Tehran, the Iranian official stressed on introduction of alternative …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan dry fruit exporters are looking for a profitable season as the state government of India’s Punjab has brought down the value-added tax (VAT) at 4.95 percent. According to the Tribune News Service of India, the decision has been widely welcomed by the dry fruit traders of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 1,800 drug dealers have been detained and tons of drugs seized this year across the country, said the Ministry of Counternarcotics on Sunday. Addressing a press conference, the Interior Deputy Minister for Counternarcotics, Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, said that more than 1,800 drug dealers have …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Sunday signed an agreement with the “Group of Combatants Against Cancer” to fight breast cancer. The ministry would launch awareness and fundraising campaign. Farhad Darya, a renowned singer, was appointed as ambassador to lead the drive against breast cancer. Speaking at a press …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Government of Turkmenistan has categorically told the United States that it doesn’t need any sort of support in protecting its border with the neighboring Afghanistan, an American diplomat said. Earlier this year, the US military officials said that Turkmenistan had approached the Obama-administration for assistance to help …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 27 Taliban militants have been killed in clearance of Afghan security forces in Dasht-e-Archi district of northern Kunduz province, said the provincial police chief. Muhammad Qasim Jangalbagh told Azadi Radio that Afghan forces have conducted clearance operations against the Taliban militants in all districts of …

 AT-KABUL: Nine of the 16 passengers kidnapped on Kabul-Kandahar highway have been released, said the Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 16 passengers in Nurak area of Zabul province the other day. According to some sources, all of the kidnapped people were from Hazara ethnic minority. Seddiqi …

An elected official in a remote northwestern Pakistani district confirmed that the bodies of 22 men recently killed in southeastern Afghanistan have been buried in the region. Alamzeb Khan, the district Nazim or in charge of the local government in Khyber Pakhtukhwa’s Lower Dir region, told Radio Mashaal on November …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 20 passengers have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on Saturday morning in southern Zabul province, said local officials. The Deputy Police Chief of Zabul province, Ghulam Jailani Farahi, confirmed the kidnapping and said the incident took place on Kabul Kandahar highway, between Shah Joy …