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AT-KABUL: Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) on Tuesday signed agreements with the local development shuras (councils) to implement 45 uplift schemes in six different provinces. Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Nasir Ahmad Durani, said the projects include construction and reconstruction of protection walls, dams and improvement of …

AT-KABUL: At least five people have been killed and 53 injured by suicide car bombing in the parking lot of Afghanistan’s justice ministry building in Kabul, officials said. Kabul Police Chief, Abdul Rahman Rahimi, told reporters at the scene of the attack that five people, including a woman, were killed …

AT-KABUL: A primary court in Kabul sentenced 11 police officers to one year in jail and announced eight others free of charges for failing to protect a woman killed in Kabul in March by an angry mob. The 28-year-old woman called Farkhunda was beaten to death and her body was …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the premier national spy agency, on Monday denied training of its agents by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Reacting to the news reports that ISI has offered to train and equip the NDS agents, spokesman to Afghan spy agency, Haseeb Siddiqi, said that nothing …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) on Monday discussed proposals from six foreign airways companies for winning the contract of air control. The ACAA said in a statement that the consultative meeting exchanged views on different aspects and conditions of the contract with representatives of the companies. Names of the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Following reports that the United Arab Emirates has deported Afghan investors in Dubai and other cities of the kingdom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Monday said the decision will be implemented on illegal Afghan workers, not traders. The MoFA said that has summoned the UAE …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As concerns loom over delay in trial of 19 policemen allegedly involved in Farkhunda’s case, the primary court on Monday announced that would decide about the policeman today (Tuesday). Head of the primary court, Safiullah Mujaddidi, said the reason behind the delay was high volume of dossiers …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief of the Qaumi Watan Party, a neo-nationalist political party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), urged the government of Pakistan to promote bilateral trade ties further with Afghanistan. At a party meeting in Charsadda district of KP, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said the other day that the Nawaz-led …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday said that operations against militants are underway in 26 different parts of the country. These areas are labeled as “high threat” on the security chart. Operation Chief at the defense ministry, Gen. Afzal Aman, said that insurgents had carried out 1,600 …

AT Monitoring Desk: KABUL: In a bid to enhance bilateral ties further in the sphere of security and policy-making, Afghan and Iranian officials inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic studies. The MoU was signed at a joint seminar in Tehran by the chief of Afghan Ministry of Foreign …