AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif is expected to visit Kabul soon in order to hold talks with the Afghan officials re resumption of second round of peace talks with the Taliban. Pakistani media reported that Gen. Sharif would be accompanied by a high-level …
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AT-BEIJING: Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states emphasized on stronger economic growth in the SCO territory. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has represented Afghanistan in the SCO summit where he already held separate meetings with Indian, Chinese and Russian leaders and emphasized on exploiting regional economic …
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Unknown gunmen shot dead an elder brother of the Afghanistan ambassador to India in a mosque in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Monday, an official said. Sardar Mohammad Khan, the brother of Shaida Mohammad Abdali, was attacked in the third police district of Kandahar City in Karteh Naw …
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The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed the Pakistani defense minister for insulting the Afghan people and Taliban through his recent remarks regarding the security of the trans-Afghan gas pipeline. In his speech during an event to mark the International Migrants Day in Kabul, Karzai said the remarks by Pakistani …
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Extremism is one of the main reasons behind illegal immigration: Mohaqiq By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ex-president Hamid Karzai on Monday called on Afghan youth to stay in Afghan and build their country. Talking on the occasion of International Migrants’ Day, Hamid Karzai termed illegal immigration of youth to European countries as …
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By Akhtar M. Nikzad KABUL: Leader of Wefaq-e-Milli, a political party, on Monday asked the government to abstain from talking about fate of the Durand Line in the peace talks with the Taliban because future of the de facto line could be decided by Afghans only. Addressing a press conference, …
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AT-KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that its operatives arrested two Daesh fighters in eastern Nangarhar province. A press statement issued by the NDS here on Monday said that operatives of the spy agency detained two Daesh fighters in an operation in Jalalabad, the capital city of …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan security forces foiled a coordinated attack of the Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh, on a check posts in eastern Nangarhar province. The provincial police spokesman, Colonel Hazrat Hussian Mashriqiwal, said that militants stormed security checkpoints in Pandola and Girdi areas of Achin district. …
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By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Sunday said that around 500 jobs significantly affect health of employees, whereas 224 of them are believed to be deadly. MoPH signed an agreement with the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) on Saturday to protect workers’ …
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AT-KABUL: As many as 394 students graduated from Afghan Korea Vocational Training Institute (AKVTI) here on Sunday. Speaking at the ceremony Head of the AKVTI, Mir Jalaludin Hesham, said that the students received theory and practice based training in seven different areas including construction, plumbing, electrical, car repairing, tailoring as …
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