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Chabahar port to be completed by 2019: India

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In defiance of fresh US sanctions on Iran, India says the strategic Chabahar port in southeastern Iran will be made operational by the end of next year. India’s Minister of Shipping Nitin Gadkari said on Friday the government in New Delhi was trying to operationalise the port, …

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Steps taken to criminalize drug trade: Mohib

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 600 drugs traffickers have been arrested, 155 laboratories destroyed, 12 storage units destroyed and poppy crop on 4,865 hectares of land eradicated over the past two years. In a recent meeting with US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) officials, the Afghan ambassador …

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Kabul agog amid Saudi cleric war verdict

AT-KABUL: Afghan government welcomed the statements by the two holy mosques’ imam who has said that the victims of all explosions, bombardments and suicide attacks in Afghanistan are only helpless civilians. The government said Saturday that remarks by religious scholars over the war in Afghanistan would bring the war under …

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Taliban attacks 11 checkpoints, killing scores, taking 90 hostages in Maidan Wardak

AT-KABUL: Some contradictory reports say that tens of security forces were taken hostage when Taliban fighters launched multiple attacks on their outposts in Jalriz district of Maidan Wardak province, while other reports reject it. Sharifullah Hotak, member of the provincial council, said that hundreds of Taliban militants assaulted outposts of …

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Over 40 employees of Construction Company abducted in Kandahar

AT-KABUL: At least 43 employees of a road construction company were abducted in southern Kandahar province after Taliban fighters attacked them, provincial official said Friday. The company is working on construction of Spin Boladak and Shorabak districts road and its employees have been attacked by the Taliban group in Sra …

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Regional meeting on counter-terrorism held in Tashkent

AT-KABUL: Attended by representatives from Russia and the Central Asia Countries, including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, National Security Advisor Haneef Atmar participated in a security meeting on regional cooperation for counterterrorism and combating organized crime in Tashkent city. The first ever meeting security officials discussed regional security, counterterrorism, counternarcotic …

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Kabul, Tashkent discuss broadening of ties

AT-KABUL: The National Security Advisor Haneef Atmar in a visit to Uzbekistan discussed key bilateral issues, including that of economic and peace cooperation with the neighboring country’s security and political officials. In a meeting with Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, NSA Atmar thanked regional countries’ initiatives and efforts, including Tashkent …

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Anger flares as fighting resumes

AT-KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has taken umbrage at resumption of fighting between government forces and Taliban militants, a few days after a historic ceasefire ended. He extended sympathy with families of martyrs of recent terrorist attacks and asserted that the glorious ceasefire which was honored during the days of …

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33 insurgents killed in raids

AT-KABUL: At least 33 militants have been killed and three others received injures in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Thursday. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan …

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Peace convoy calls on Taliban to extend ceasefire

AT-KABUL: The members of the peace convoy who has came from Helmand province on foot to Kabul, asked the Taliban to accept the government’s request for ceasefire extension and extend it for at least one month. These people have set a three-day deadline to give them a positive answer like …

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