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12 April

AISA gains investment award

AT-KABUL: The Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) agency, a body monitoring the Central Asia’s investments, granted the best investment award for 2015 to the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA). The AIM is launched by United Arab Emirates every year with the aim to improve investment ties and discussion over trade issues …

12 April

18 insurgents killed in raids

AT-KABUL: Eighteen Taliban fighters were killed and 22 others wounded in different operations in the past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday. In a press release, the defense ministry said that the Afghan National Army with the collaboration of the Afghan National Police and the National Directorate of Security conducted operations …

11 April

Don’t interfere in Afghanistan: MPs tell John Kerry

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Lower House of parliament on Monday strongly criticized US Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks, asking Washington to refrain political interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs. In his Saturday’s visit to Kabul, Kerry highlighted that the agreement which the National Unity Government signed by Ashraf Ghani …

11 April

Nine drug traffickers arrested

AT-KABUL: The Criminal Justice Task Forces (CJTF) on Monday said that nine drug runners including a woman were arrested in different operations last week in the country. “Nine smugglers were apprehended by the counter-narcotics police through different crackdowns in Kabul, Farah and Nangarhar provinces,” the CJTF said in a statement. …

11 April

Two killed, seven wounded in Kabul blast

AT-KABUL: Two personnel of the Ministry of Education were killed and seven others wounded while their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in a district of Kabul province Monday morning, security officials said. A bus carrying staff of the Ministry of Education struck by a roadside bomb in Kamari area of …

11 April

Earthquake damages 26 houses in Afghanistan

AT-KABUL: At least 26 houses were completely damaged when a Sunday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake that hit parts of the country. “Twenty-one houses in Takhar, three in Badakhshan and two houses in Panjshir provinces were completely damaged in the earthquake,” Omar Mohammadi, spokesperson for the State Ministry for Disaster Management and Humanitarian …

11 April

8 killed, scores injured in Helmand traffic accident

AT-KABUL: At least eight people were killed and over 40 others including women and children injured in a deadly traffic accident on the Kabul-Nimroz highway in southern Helmand province on Monday, a provincial official said. “A bus carrying passengers overturned on Kabul-Nimroz highway this morning in the Washer district,” provincial …

11 April

Over 52pc people won’t vote in parliamentary polls: Survey

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Focus Development Organization, a watchdog, released a report on Monday saying that 52.34 percent voters had negative perception regarding elections. Over fifty percent of respondents said that they would not cast their ballots in the coming parliamentary election. The survey has been conducted in the past six …

11 April

New Kabul Bank’s privatization

The Kabul Bank scandal which began in August 2010 is a stain on the country’s economic system. The scandal has not only earned bad image for the country but also pushed investors away. Even the bailout failed to address the economic crunch and restore customers’ trust over the country’s largest …

11 April

12 killed, 38 injured in Jalalabad suicide attack against army bus

AT-Kabul: At least 12 people, mostly new recruits of Afghan army, were killed and 38 others injured on Monday afternoon when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus carrying the personnel to capital Kabul. Spokesman for Nangarhar Governor, Attaullah Khogyani, told Afghanistan Times that the attack was carried …