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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The White House on Friday said that the US does not consider Afghan Taliban as a terrorist outfit, but said the tactics adopted by them are similar to terrorism. “They (the Taliban) do carry out tactics that are akin to terrorism. They do pursue terror attacks in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: It has been two years that the design of the much-awaited pipeline project—Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) has been completed, but the practical work on the project is still to start. The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said that the government is committed to begin work …

KABUL: Ministry of Higher Education conducted the first round of university entrance examination in Kabul province. As many as 12,000 candidates including 400 girls appeared in the test. Deputy Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Mohammad Usman Baburi, said the other day that estimated around 80,000 candidates would take the entrance …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Afghanistan on Thursday said that cooperation of Islamabad in tackling extremism and terrorism is very important. Addressing a seminar on regional radicalization, Director General of Regional Cooperation Directorate (RCD) in the foreign ministry Roya Rahmani termed terrorism and extremism as major threat …

KABUL: Following reports about stoppage of work on a number of uplift projects run by India in parts of Afghanistan, the Economy Ministry on Wednesday termed the reports as unfounded, and said the run projects have not faced any hurdles so far. India has contributed different small and big projects …

KABUL: The Women’s Political Participation Committee (WPPC), a civil rights group, on Wednesday strongly criticized the government for not giving due share to women in the cabinet. The group said that both President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah should honor their promises made during electioneering about giving …

KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) on Wednesday approved the fiscal budget for year 2015 with eight percent deficit in development budget. According to the data provided by the Financial and Budget Committee (FBC) of the WJ total volume of the budge is Afs436 billion. Afs282.48 billion was allocated for ordinary …

KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) or Lower House of the parliament on Wednesday approved nine cabinet picks and rejected 10 others in the nerve-wracking process of confidence vote. Total 234 MPs were present in the session to cast vote in favor or against the nominees. Each nominated cabinet member required …

AT-KABUL: Following the terror attack on a military-run school in Peshawar last month, Pakistan has adopted a whole unique strategy to appease anger of the public instead of addressing the root cause. Islamabad is using the Afghan refugees as scapegoats to divert attention of the nation from groups that kill …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A senior Pakistani official has said that Pakistan will welcome India’s positive role in Afghanistan for peace and stability in the region. Pakistani media outlets quoted the secretary foreign affairs, Aizaz Ahmed Chaudry, as saying that the United States should exert pressure on India to resolve all …