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KABUL: With the onset of winter, the Refugees and Repatriations Ministry in cooperation with the UNHCR and other international relief agencies has delivered life-saving assistance to 30,000 displaced Afghans to help them weather the adverse conditions and survive the harsh winter. MoRR said on Monday that the assistance was distributed …

KABUL: Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah slammed the Taliban for their peace stance, saying the insurgents’ position was the main obstacle for the process, a remark stated amid efforts being made by regional powers and the United States to persuade the militants give up militancy and join peace. “The most basic …

AT-KABUL: The first coordination meeting of RECCA Ambassadors in 2019 and inauguration of RECCA Research and Evaluation Center was held with the participation of Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, Government Officials, and Foreign Ambassadors to Kabul in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Minister Rabbani, besides thanking the regional countries for their …

KABUL: Afghan delegates who have been invited to attend the Moscow summit next week vowed Sunday that they will defend Afghanistan’s ‘national and democratic values’at the talks. The talks will be held on 5th and 6th February but the Afghan government has not been invited to attend the talks in …

KABUL: A member of parliament believes that Russia tries to defeat the United States military in Afghanistan by challenging Washington’s peace efforts. “The Russian government works with all its power to defeat the United States troops in Afghanistan just as the Soviet troops were defeated in the 1980s. Russians want …

KABUL: Poppy cultivation has recently witnessed a 29 per cent decrease in the southern province of Uruzgan, according to local officials, an unprecedented move in an area where a big part of poppy was being cultivated in the past years. Juma Khan Bashiri, head of provincial counter-narcotics department,called public awareness …

KABUL: The High Peace Council hopes the upcoming meeting in Russia’s capital Moscow, would pave the ground for talks between the government and Taliban, as it is called a meeting organized by Afghans. “We hope such meetings that are organized by Afghans, facilitate dialogues between government and Taliban,” Sayed Ehsan …

KABUL: Presidential candidate Haneef Atmarsaid Sunday that Moscow conference will be a turning point for an inclusive ‘intra-Afghan dialogue’, announcing that he will attend the talks in Russia along with other leaders of the country. The talks will be held on 5th and 6th February but the Afghan government has …

KABUL: The government has begun discussions over appointing of new electoral commissioners. The Free and Fair Electoral Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) said Sunday that the new commissioners would be appointed through a consensus between government, presidential candidates and political parties, while they were previously appointed by a selection committee. Head …

KABUL: The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Afghanistan on Sunday launched an appeal highlighting a total of 6.3 million people in dire need of support, including 3.8 million children. The UN agency appealed for $50 million to provide much-needed lifesaving support to more than 570,000 children with basic health and nutrition packages, water, sanitation …