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AT-KABUL: Ambassador of India to Afghanistan, Manpreet Vohra, visited Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) to familiarize himself with the institute and services being rendered by the institute. He also visited the recently established diagnostic centre and surgical ward at IGICH and saw the ongoing construction of two waste …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Two young girls biked more than 100 kilometers from Bamyan province to Kabul, conveying the massage of justice to the government about the transition of the 500 kw electricity line through Bamyan province instead of Salang. Zakia Mohammadi and Golsum Zahra, two members of National Cycling …

AT-KABUL: The state-run Regional Studies Center of Afghanistan urged the government to support it for further progress. “We face shortage of budget, and the government is required to support us to have capability for further researches in the future,” said Rafiullah Niazi, head of the center, in a ceremony marking …

AT-KABUL: As many as 152 Afghan students will soon leave for India to pursue higher education at the Indian universities, enjoying scholarships provided by New Delhi. “India provides Afghan government 1,000 scholarships in bachelor degree, where 152 selected students including male and female will leave for India next week,” Indian …

AT-KABUL:  Fifty three Taliban militants were killed and 20 others injured as the result of different crackdowns within past 24 hours, security officials said on Monday. In a statement Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of …

WASHINGTON: Over seventy prominent scholars and activists, including Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to visit with Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, and to announce concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament when he visits Hiroshima this Friday after the Group of Seven economic summit in Japan. American …

The Government of Afghanistan and the US Government have confirmed that an operation by US forces resulted in the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur. Under Mullah Mansur’s leadership, the Taliban have continued to conduct brutal attacks across Afghanistan, leading to the death and suffering of countless Afghan civilians …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has been killed in a strike launched by the US drones on Pakistani soil, Afghan and US officials said on Sunday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS), spy agency of Afghanistan, in a statement confirmed the death of Mansour. It …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: As many as 1,406 people had died and 4,000 wounded in traffic accidents last year across the country, officials in the ministry of transportation and civil aviation said. Lack of standard roads and traffic signs were called as the main elements of the casualties. Deputy transport …

AT-KABUL: Addressing cabinet meeting on Sunday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said that the government was close to concluding a peace deal with the Hezb-i-Islma Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. “No privileges against the constitution and national interests would be offered to the HIA for their return,” Abdullah …