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4 Years of Peace Could Increase Afghan GDP by 7%: UNDP
April 07,2021
KABUL - UNDP Afghanistan on Tuesday launched its latest Afghanistan Country Report titled “Achieving Afghanistan’s Long-term Goals amid Short-term ...
Ghani: Int’l Community Must Guarantee, Ensure Prolonged Peace
April 07,2021
KABUL - In a Facebook post, Presidential Palace (Arg) said that President Ghani held a meeting with elders from various provinces in regards to unacceptable violence and bloodshed ...
Karzai Calls on Taliban to Embrace The ‘New Afghanistan’
April 07,2021
KABUL - As the May 1 deadline for the US troop withdrawal nears, and efforts to secure a peace deal are ramped up, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said the country is asking ...
Pakistan Views Taliban as Friendly Anti-India Element
April 06,2021
Pakistan’s security establishment, fearful of strategic encirclement by India, apparently continues to view the Afghan Taliban as a relatively friendly and reliably ...
Afghanistan Borrows More Than 17b Afs This Fiscal Year
April 06,2021
KABUL - The Afghan government has borrowed 17.4 billion afghanis from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the ongoing fiscal year...
62 New Cases of COVID-19, 4 Deaths Reported
April 06,2021
KABUL - The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 62 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,035 samples tested ...
Commercial Farming Limited by Lack of Land, Water
April 06,2021
KABUL - Afghan farmers on Sunday stated that insufficient water and lack of agricultural land is hindering many investors from establishing commercial farms in the country...
MPs Warn of Serious Development Budget Embezzlement
April 06,2021
KABUL - Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) warned on Monday that millions of dollars earmarked for development projects in Afghanistan could be ...
Taliban Suffer Heavy Casualties as Gov’t Retakes District in Kandahar
April 06,2021
KANDAHAR - Ministry of Defense reported of heavy Taliban casualties in Arghandab and Zherai districts of Kandahar province.
MoD in a released statement on Monday said ...
SIGAR: Narcotics Remain a Primary Source of Taliban Income
April 06,2021
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday offered help to Afghanistan in their efforts for development, stressing ...
Afghan Leader Proposes Peace Road Map in Three Phases - Document
April 05,2021
KABUL - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will put forward a three-phase peace roadmap for Afghanistan during a proposed meeting in Turkey, seeking an agreement with the Taliban ...
President Ghani Will Not Bow to Pressure Without Real Peace: Mohib
April 05,2021
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib at a press conference on Saturday said that the president will not be influenced by any ...
NDS Chief Warns Taliban Preparing for War Not Peace
April 05,2021
KABUL - Ahmad Zia Saraj, Chief of the National Directorate of Security, said Saturday that the Taliban has no intention of laying down arms, nor does it want peace ...
Afghan Post Launches Online Service System
April 05,2021
KABUL - The Afghan Post Company on Sunday inaugurated online service system which it said was capable of providing 150 types of services to government offices...
Qatari Envoy Attends Ghani’s Meeting with Ambassadors
April 05,2021
KABUL - A Qatari envoy has attended President Ashraf Ghani’s meeting with Kabul-based ambassadors, a media report said on Sunday.
The Peninsula, a Doha-based newspaper ...
Violence Swells as Effort for Peace Underway in Afghanistan
April 05,2021
KABUL - Peace efforts on domestic and international levels and preperations for the upcoming Turkey Conference were underway last week but violence increased three times last week ...
Politicians Gear Up to Start Istanbul Summit on April 16
April 04,2021
KABUL - Sources have told Ariana News that the Istanbul summit on the Afghan peace process will run for 10 days from April 16.
US President Joe Biden put forward a ...
Political Leaders Set to Start Review on US-Proposed Peace Plan
April 04,2021
KABUL - A 15-member committee of political leaders will be briefed on Saturday on the results of a review of the US-proposed peace plan for Afghanistan by various parties ...
Taliban Have Not Changed, Warns NSA: Hamdullah Mohib
April 04,2021
KABUL - Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser, Hamdullah Mohib on Saturday said that the Taliban still roams in the past, the group has not changed but and does have the knowledge ...
Biden Admin Lifts Sanctions on ICC’s Top Prosecutor
April 04,2021
KABUL - The United States has lifted sanctions on the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor reversing the Trump administration’s decision. ...
Kabul, Tehran to Speed Up Renovation of Border Posts
April 04,2021
KABUL - Afghanistan and Iran have agreed to speed up the renovation of cross-border posts, reports an Iranian media outlet.
Deputy foreign ministers of the two countries ...
Immediate Change in Power Won’t Bring Stability to Afghanistan: EU
April 04,2021
The European Union (EU) has called on President Ashraf Ghani to make concerted efforts to advance the Afghan peace process and to make sure the people and the country’s best interests ...
Why is there no clear perspective for peace in Afghanistan?
April 04,2021
Although Achieving peace has long been a dream of the Afghan people, the prospect of peace and security is not clear in Afghanistan. After forty years of war and conflicts ...
World Bank Grants $25M to Improve Education in Afghanistan, Especially for Girls
April 03,2021
KABUL - The World Bank has approved an additional $25 million grant from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to help increase equitable access to primary ...
Russia, Pakistan to Exchange Views on Afghanistan
April 03,2021
PESHAWAR - Amid stepped-up diplomatic efforts, Moscow and Islamabad are set to exchange views on the Afghan peace process next week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ...
Ghani Orders 3 Health Departments to Merge
April 03,2021
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani in a decree ordered three departments of the Afghan Ministry of Health to merge and be placed under the National Medicine & Health Products Regulatory Authority (NMHRA) so they report on their activities ...
305 Afghans Killed in Targeted Attacks, Explosions in Past Month
April 03,2021
KABUL - Data collected by TOLOnews shows that at least 305 Afghans were killed and 350 others were wounded in a series of explosions and targeted attacks in the past one month...
Turkish Brigadier General Assumes Command of NATO in Kabul
April 03,2021
KABUL - Turkish Brigadier General Selçuk Yurtsizoğlu has assumed command of the NATO-led Train, Advise, Assist Command-Capital in Kabul, NATO’s spokesperson Oana Lungescu ...
Khalilzad Meets Gov’t, Taliban Negotiating Teams to Speed Up Peace Process: US Official
April 03,2021
The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with the Islamic Republic and Taliban negotiating teams in Doha this week to ...
Minister Calls for Customs Reform to Boost National Revenue
April 03,2021
KABUL - Acting Minister of Finance Khaled Payenda on Thursday said there have been no reforms at the customs offices in Afghanistan in the past decade, and this ...
Ghani, Jaishankar, Qureshi Discuss Afghan Peace Process
March 31,2021
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar have exchanged views on the Afghan peace process, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday...
Regional Ministers Discuss Need for Peace at Dushanbe Summit
March 31,2021
DUSHANBE - India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addressed delegates at the 9th Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process Ministerial Conference in Dushanbe ...
Afghanistan’s Issue Has No Military Solution: Tajik President
March 31,2021
DUSHANBE - Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon on the second and the last day of the ninth Hearth of Asia – Istanbul Process conference in Dushanbe on Tuesday said the last four ...
Ghani Underlines Power Transfer in Line with Constitution
March 31,2021
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday underlined the need for power transfer in a constitutional and democratic manner.
The transfer of power to a future president ...
Iran, Afghanistan Vow to Broaden Mutual Cooperation
March 31,2021
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Afghan counterpart Hanif Atmar in a meeting in Dushanbe underlined the need to expand bilateral relations in different fields...