AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five engineers working for a road construction company were kidnapped by Taliban militants in eastern Logar province, local officials said on Saturday. The abduction took place late Friday in the Mohammad Agha district, said district governor Mohammad Nasir Amin. “They were travelling in the area without contacting …
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Hundreds of people from the political activists, members of civil society and other Kabul citizens gathered Friday to protest rocket firing by Pakistani army on the eastern areas of Afghanistan. The protesters demanded immediate stop of the shelling which has been reportedly targeting villages in the provinces of Nangarhar and …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Islamabad has given a green signal to easy the recent ongoing tensions with Kabul in spirit of a mutual respect and cooperation, but, however the country did not decide yet to reopen Pak-Afghan crossing points, the Pakistani officials said the other day. Pakistani Foreign Office Spokesman, Nafees …
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By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Blaming Afghanistan for supporting terrorist outfits is not realistic, rather it is a move in order to divert minds, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah said today, while calling on regional countries for honest cooperation in war on terror. Abdullah in a gathering in Kabul to …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hundreds of Kabul residents including politicians and civil society activists on Thursday took out to the streets to give vent to their anger against Pakistan for its “continuing support to the militancy, and the recent shelling on resident areas in eastern provinces of the country. While chanting …
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The agreement of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is now closer to a reality. Energy starving India and Pakistan have joined hands with Afghanistan and struck a deal with Turkmenistan to build a gas pipeline at a cost of $10b. The project was signed in 2016. President Ashraf Ghani in …
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AT-KABUL: The Kabul office of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Society (UAERCS) in cooperation with the UAE embassy based in Kabul have decided to grant female students with school uniforms across the country. A press statement emailed to Afghanistan Times, the UAE embassy said that the Kabul office of …
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AT-KABUL: A terror plot has been foiled after the Afghan security forces destroyed a truck filled with explosive materials before entering to the capital of southern Ghazni province, security source said on Wednesday. In a statement issued here, the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said the insurgents was planned to carry …
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‘Ending imports with support of domestic product’ By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Industrial Association (AIA) on Wednesday has signed an agreement with Afghanistan International Bank (AIB) to offer loans to the industrialists aimed at upgrading industrial factories across the country. “This is the first agreement signed with AIB for a …
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The Afghan masses should stay confident as the country will not unravel into any sort of civil war as the country’s leaders are now mature enough to deal with any type of distasteful incidents. There are some elements who are trying best to prompt gloomy forecasts of an internecine war …
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