November, 2015

• 24 November

  Polio vaccination drive kicks off in Faryab

  

  AT-KABUL: A three-day anti-polio campaign started in the northwestern Faryab province the other day with the aim to eradicate the crippling disease in the country. Around 340,000 children up to the age of five years will be administered polio drops during the campaign. The campaign was conducted just few days …

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• 24 November

  Hakimi urges Pakistan to take practical steps for peace in Afghanistan

  

  AT-KABUL: The Minister of Finance, Eklil Ahmad Hakimi, urged Pakistan to take practical steps for peace in Afghanistan. He said that mere promises were not enough. After returning home from a visit to Pakistan, the minister told reporters on Tuesday that he urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take …

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• 24 November

  Politician in boots; MoI reiterates to eliminate militants of all hues

  

  Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The interior minister Noorul Haq Ulomi on Tuesday said that the government would not allow any militant group to challenge writ of the government and destabilize the country. In a joint press conference with the chief of army staff Gen. Qadam Shah Shaheem, the minister said that …

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• 24 November

  Italy donates $2m for improvement of healthcare services

  

  By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Government of Italy has granted $2 million for improvement of healthcare services in Afghanistan. The donation will be spent to provide medical equipments, construct diagnosing centers, cancer test laboratories, and improve plastic surgery, physiotherapy and capacity building of health workers. The cooperation agreement in this regard was …

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• 24 November

  Al-Badar fiasco in Khost

  This is not an allegation. It is their oft-repeated confession. They did confess it on so many times and by so many political leaders. From late President of Pakistan Zia-ul-Haq, to late premier Benazir Bhutto, from late interior minister of Pakistan, Naseerullah Babar, to former president Pervaiz Musharraf, all have …

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• 24 November

  Afghan, Pakistan elements a major source of terrorist funding: US report

  

  Unidentified elements in Pakistan and Afghanistan are major sources of terrorist financing, says a report by the U.S Treasury Department. “There is evidence that recently some funding via donations has been diverted from Afghanistan and Pakistan to terrorist groups operating in Syria,” claims a similar report by the British government. …

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• 24 November

  60 tons of low quality, expired drugs torched

  

  AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health set alight around 60 tons of low quality and expired medicines in Butkhak district of Kabul province on Tuesday. The medicines were collected from drugs importing companies, wholesalers and different stores in the outskirt of Kabul city in a bid to improve healthcare services …

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• 24 November

   ‘200 Nangarhar University students have links with militants’

  

  AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government said that 200 students of the Nangarhar University had links with the Taliban, Daesh and Hekmatyar-led Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan. Leading a delegation to probe support for the militant groups by the Nangarhar varsity students, the presidential advisor Qamaruddin Shenwari told BBC that the university students who …

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• 24 November

  University sealed in Peshawar; Afghan students face uncertain future

  AT-PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and the district administration has sealed the Imam Ghazali Medical University in Peshawar. Facing uncertain future, the Afghan students asked the provincial government to reopen the university. Afghan students during a news conference in Peshawar said that their …

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• 24 November

  Afghan Authorities, Taliban Agree To Reopen Schools In Contested Region

  

  In a rare show of cooperation, the Afghan Taliban have allowed the government to reopen schools in territories it overran after bloody battles earlier this year. Afghan officials say they have struck an informal agreement with Taliban insurgents to reopen 51 schools in two districts of Helmand Province in southern …

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