TimeLine Layout

February, 2016

  • 20 February

    President vows management in water resources

    By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Hinting to the droughts and decreasing agricultural products, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday pledged to bring water management by putting restrictions to water flow in order to improve agricultural productions through irrigation system. Addressing the fourth promotion and development of agriculture conference in Kabul, Ghani said …

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  • 20 February

    25 insurgents killed in different operations

    AT-KABUL: 25 Taliban insurgents were killed and 10 others were received injuries in different operations conducted by Afghan security forces during past 24 hours, officials said Saturday. “Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) has conducted operations against insurgents in …

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  • 20 February

    Editorial: Peace talks and challenges

    Earlier this month the government has said that it expected to hold face-to-face talks with the Taliban representatives by the end of February. The statement was issued by the spokesman of foreign ministry following the third round of the four-nation talks called (Quadrilateral Coordination Group) meetings in Pakistan’s capital city, …

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  • 20 February

    NDS busted Haqqani terrorist network in Khost

    AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives on Saturday captured two leaders of the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in the southern Khost province. NDS in its press release to media, said that two group leaders of Al Qaeda linked-network were arrested along with their four fighters in Sabari district …

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  • 20 February

    HRW asks for inquiry of clinic raid in Wardak

    AT-KABUL: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saturday asked the government to investigate last week’s raids on a health center in Wardak province. This health center located in Diamirdad district is funded by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, an organization active in health and education sectors. A statement issued by the Swedish …

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  • 19 February

    Talks with Taliban a ‘waste of time,’ says critic of Afghanistan’s president

    By Ali M. Latifi and Shashank Bengali-As military and political setbacks mount, Afghanistan’s embattled president, Ashraf Ghani, has insisted the time is right to seek direct peace talks with resurgent Taliban militants. Now an influential figure in Ghani’s government has blasted the peace strategy as a “waste of time” given the Taliban’s successes …

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  • 19 February

    A matter of life and death

    Afghanistan and its neighboring Pakistan remained the only two countries where crippling disease of polio is prevalent. Nigeria last year announced that polio is no longer an endemic in the West African country. The World Health Organization informed that Nigeria and Africa as a whole are now closer to being …

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  • 19 February

    Afghanistan’s enriched uranium resources required management: Rana think tank

    By Farhad Naibekhel-KABUL: The Rana think tank participants believe that Afghanistan has enough uranium resources which need a proper management and protection. According to Rana think tank, beside copper, oil, gold and gems, Afghanistan is rich of mines of uranium and lithium. The uranium and lithium resources are located in …

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  • 18 February

    U.S. AIRSTRIKES IN AFGHANISTAN ARE KILLING CIVILIANS AT GREATEST RATE IN SEVEN YEARS

    In what could point to decreased accuracy in targeting or a possible shift in the rules of engagement, the rate at which civilians are being killed by United States airstrikes in Afghanistan is now at its highest point since 2008, an analysis of newly published United Nations data reveals. On …

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  • 18 February

    Editorial: Regional countries can help Afghan peace

    The Russian government has recently said that it would not participate in the Afghan peace process. Moscow called the quadrilateral coordination group’s talks, a “US-led process”. Four countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States) are trying to make a roadmap to persuade Taliban and other armed opposition groups to …

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