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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Tuesday said that it has drafted a strategy to irrigate dry lands in order to increase wheat production. The strategy would lead the country toward self-sufficiency in wheat production within next four years, the ministry said. To finically support …

AT-KABUL: The “Voice of Caliphate” radio station of the Islamic State (IS) which is also known as Daesh, was destroyed in a US airstrike last night in eastern Nangarhar province. “Daesh radio station was operating since December last year. The radio station was destroyed and its five staffers were killed …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Women’s Affairs Minister on Monday criticized the political parties and social organs for their “symbolic existence”, asking them to take real steps for empowering women in the country. “Despite the existence of dozens of political parties and social societies, there has been no significant changes in the …

AT-KABUL: As many as 300 different projects will be carried out at a cost of five million dollars in southeastern Paktika province in the next solar year which will begin on March 21 this year, a local official said Monday. The rural rehabilitation and development director in the province Najibullah …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Kabul Municipality (KM) on Monday inaugurated a road after reconstruction in the west part of the city. The road has been reconstructed with the 3.35km length and 15.5 meters width with concreted pavement and electricity service in the Pul-e-Sorkh neighborhood at the third police jurisdiction …

Pakistan’s intensifying crackdown on terrorists is likely to victimize Afghans living there, many of whom could be forced to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan hosts about 1.5 million registered and about one million undocumented Afghans. After the 2014 terrorist attack on the army-run school in Peshawar in which more than 150 people …

India also nods for the third phase of 92 small development projects in Afghanistan AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Sawaraj on Monday in New Delhi. Indian primer reiterated New Delhi’s commitments to help Afghans in building …

AT-KABUL: More than 10,000 refugee children have disappeared after arriving in Europe, the European Union Police Intelligence Unit (Europol) said Monday. The Europol have warned the criminal gangs’ sexual exploitation of these children. The statistics released by the British newspapers said that the children had been missing for 18 to …

Karzai, Abdullah, NATO condemn suicide attack By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 20 people were killed and 32 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vest at the entrance of the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police Headquarters (HQ) in western Kabul on Monday afternoon. In a media statement issued …

KABUL: An explosion, possibly suicide attack, has been reported near to Afghan Border Police HQ in west of Kabul city today afternoon. Eyewitnesses in the area say the explosion took place in front of the Afghan Border Police on the main street in which a number of people have been …