December, 2015

• 5 December

  MRRD signs 74 development projects

  

  By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation Development (MRRD) signed 74 development projects worth approximately $ 229 million with Community Development Councils (CDCs), here on Saturday. Funded by Asian Development Bank and Afghanistan Development Budget, the uplift projects will cover Balkh, Smangan, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Panshir, Ghor, Bamyan, Logar, Laghman, Takhar, …

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• 5 December

  Deportation of rejected refugees: Ghani goes along with Sweden

  

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During his meeting with the Swedish Prime Minister the other day in Sweden, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that those Afghan asylum-seekers who are not accepted by the Swedish government would be repatriated. Issue of the Afghan illegal immigrants has been on the agenda of President Ghani …

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• 5 December

  Garbage heaps irk citizens; KM blamed for neglect

  

  Mayor acknowledged fuel theft by truck drivers of cleanliness department of KM Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Everyday a huge amount of waste is produced in Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul. As the city lacks trash containers in congested areas and proper waste management system, therefore, these wastes are dumped beside the roads, …

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• 5 December

  International Volunteer Day marked in Kabul

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Observing the International Volunteer Day in the capital Kabul on Saturday, over 200 hundreds of youth volunteers took part in cleaning two major parks and planting trees in the Ahmad Shah Baba Maina—(a township on the outskirt of the Kabul city). The campaign by Ahmad Shah Baba …

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• 5 December

  33 Daesh fighters killed, 4 wounded in Nangarhar

  

  AT-KABUL: At least 33 Daesh fighters have been killed and four others wounded, in a joint operation by security forces, national directorate of security and police, in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province that lasted 24 hours. Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Husain Mashreqiwal told Afghanistan Times that Afghan national police …

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• 5 December

  MoD assigns commission to probe into Wardak incident

  

  “Former President Hamid Karzai condemned shell-firing in Wardak” AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has assigned a commission to investigate the recent incident of mortar shell firing in Maidan Wardak province that led to killing of 10 civilians and injured six others. According to reports, mortar shells fired …

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• 5 December

  AISA hopeful on Afghanistan economic moot in Berlin

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) said that economic conference on Afghanistan, which is going to be held in Berlin, will encourage foreign investors to invest in Afghanistan. Deputy Head of the AISA, Muhammad Ebrahim Shams, told Azadi Radio that the conference will assess investment opportunities in Afghanistan. …

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• 4 December

  Widening differences among Taliban leadership: HPC urges fighters to talk peace

  

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) said that rifts among leadership of the Taliban militants have widened. The council urged the Taliban fighters to join the peace process. According to reports, the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansoor recently succumbed to his injuries. Office of the Vice …

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• 4 December

  Elements in Iran want to destroy Afghan-India Friendship Dam

  

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Some elements in Iran are in the quest to destroy Afghan-India Friendship Dam (Salma Dam) in western Herat province, said an official source. Wali Muhammad Rashidi, the commander of the dam’s security, told reporters that they have seized 50 kilogram explosives in a truck near the dam. …

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• 4 December

  Higher Education Law: Lecturers boycott classes, exams

  

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Hundreds of state-owned universities lecturers boycotted classrooms, winter semester examinations and university entrance test in protest at the recent presidential decree. The president had issued a decree about enforcing the pending Higher Education Law, when the lawmakers were gone on summer recess. The decree was widely criticized …

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