March, 2016

• 15 March

  Three drug traffickers arrested in Badakhshan

  

  AT-KABUL: Three drug smugglers were arrested in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Tuesday. Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Ghafoori, provincial police chief said 15 kilograms of heroin was seized from a wood-laden truck. The heroin was seized when the truck was stopped for a search at a security checkpoint on the …

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• 15 March

  Taliban shoot dead district police chief in Laghman

  

  AT-KABUL: A district police chief was killed in a Taliban attack in Laghman province, officials said Tuesday. “Inayatullah Himmat, police chief of the Do-Ab district in Nuristan province came under attack this morning while on his way home in Kabul,” said Col Mohammad Farooq, provincial police chief for the adjacent …

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• 15 March

  ANDMA helps disaster affected people

  

  AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday donated two million Afghanis to the families suffered from natural disasters. Acting Head of Disaster Management Department of Kabul Noor Afghan Azimi said that the ANDMA donated two million Afghanis for the affected families of the natural disasters. He said that …

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• 15 March

  AISA to build 14 industrial parks in Kabul

  

  AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) is to build 14 industrial parks in the districts of Kabul province to “strengthen” the agricultural and horticultural products, head of the agency Mohammad Qurban Haqjoo said Tuesday, signing the agreement with Kabul governor Mohammad Ekram. Haqjoo said that the government would be …

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• 14 March

  Solar power plant to be built in Nangarhar

  

  AT-KABUL: The Asian Development Bank is to build a solar power station producing 40 mega watts of electricity in the Hesar Shahi deserts of Nangarhar province, an official for the bank said Monday. Fazlullah Fazli, a bank official said the project was explained to Nangarhar provincial governor Salim Kunduzi. “First, …

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• 14 March

  Pakistan, US have interests in Afghan war: Survey

  

  Peace talks with Taliban failed; HPC a symbolic body; Afghan officials lack consensus over peace with militants; women’s status will become worse after peace deal; Taliban fight for Pakistan’s interest AT-KABUL: Pakistan, regional countries, the United State and the West see their interests in war and insecurity in Afghanistan, a …

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• 14 March

  Policewoman shot dead in Kandahar

  

  AT-KANDAHAR: Unknown gunmen gunned shot a female police officer, working for the passport office in the southern Kandahar province, provincial spokesman Samim Khapalwak said Monday. “She died on the spot,” Khapalwak said, adding that the incident took place in the PD 13 in the Kandahar city. He identified the woman …

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• 14 March

  12 Daesh terrorists killed by own bomb in Nangarhar

  

  AT-KABUL: Twelve Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists were killed and 21 others injured after a bomb they were placing went off in the eastern Nangarhar province, military official said Monday. “The Daesh terrorists were placing the bomb in a busy marketplace in the Achin district,” the Selab 201 military corps said …

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• 14 March

  Destroying militant hideouts vital to end war: Gen. Raziq

  

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Police Chief of the southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq, said that there was only way to get rid of insecurity and that is to reduce the militants’ hideouts on ‘foreign lands’ to rubbles. “If the United States and the international community really want to put …

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• 14 March

  Editorial: Promising start

  

  It is easy to wage a war as it takes just a few minutes to declare someone enemy. But, it is a herculean task to end the conflict. Countries and groups start wars without thinking about the end result or calculating the damages that they will suffer. The miscalculations make …

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