AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan has lost 50 percent of its shares in Afghanistan’s market, an offshoot of that country’s diversion of funds to sponsoring terrorism. Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and industry chairman Zubair Motiwala has disclosed that Islamabad has lost its 50 percent market share in Afghanistan as the …
Read More »100,000 saplings to be planted in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: Some 100,000 saplings will be planted in four farms in southern Nangarhar province under the auspices of the Canal Project, said officials on Sunday. Four farms with 100,000 plants including 10,000 citrus seedlings will be built in the province. In a statement, head of the Nangarhar Canal Project Ghulam …
Read More »Afghanistan calls for intelligence probe into Daesh
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In response to accusations of Russia, Iran and Pakistan during the Kabul Process conference regarding Afghanistan’s failure in countering terrorism especially Daesh, the National Security Adviser Haneef Atmar has offered a joint intelligence interrogation from the militants of Islamic State, also known as Daesh terrorist group, imprisoned …
Read More »Reforms within police squads, effective: ministry
AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s interior ministry says the reforms that have been carried out within the police system have yielded positive results since it began in Kabul. Shah Wali Safi, deputy interior minister said the new reform was better compared to the previous programs, adding that the program was a step for …
Read More »Corruption rampant in customs: Watchdog
AT-KABUL: The Integrity Watch Afghanistan said it had no doubt on the corruption in the custom departments, asking the government to cut off the corrupt hands from custom offices especially in the Hairatan port in the north. Hairatan is still controlled by the former Balkh governor Atta Noor, who defies …
Read More »Kunduz airport set to start civil flights
AT-KABUL: A reconstruction of the airport in northern Kunduz provinces has come to its end and civil flights are set to be started within one week. In charge of the Kunduz airport Abdul Najat Saberi said on Sunday that a major reconstruction of the airport has been implemented and flights …
Read More »50 militants killed in military raids
AT-KABUL: At least 50 militants have been killed and 27 more wounded in different crackdown operations that have been carried out by Afghan defense forces within the past day. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National …
Read More »TAPI could offer boundless possibilities to west Afghanistan
AT-KABUL: The landmark cross-Afghanistan pipeline project will pave the grounds for boundless opportunities in Western Afghanistan and help tackle the ongoing economic tantrum. Residents of Western Farah province in a ceremony declared their full support for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline project. In attendance were provincial officials, tribal elders, youth civil society …
Read More »Repatriation of Afghan migrants begins from Pakistan: Government
AT-KABUL: The government has said that the process of repatriating Afghan migrants from Pakistan has begun. Ministry of refugees and repatriation said on Saturday that the process began on March 1st and since then a few families have returned to Afghanistan. Pakistan government asked Afghan migrants in December to leave …
Read More »Infrastructure of Kabul-Paktia power project almost complete
AT-KABUL: The infrastructure of the Kabul-Paktia energy project is nearing its completion. The imported energy will add 220 KW of electricity to the national power grid. Kabul deputy provincial governor in a meeting with the project engineers on Saturday said his office had ordered district chiefs of Paghman, Char Asiab …
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