Tag: Afghanistan
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India to undertake low-cost housing projects in Afghanistan
Undaunted by the current security situation in Afghanistan, India has decided to spend nearly $450 million in the embattled nation to build low-cost houses for Afghan refugees repatriating to the country. According to official sources, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra has had detailed discussions with officials of the Afghan Urban development and Housing Ministry …
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March 10, 2017 -
India to undertake low-cost housing projects in Afghanistan
Undaunted by the current security situation in Afghanistan, India has decided to spend nearly $450 million in the embattled nation to build low-cost houses for Afghan refugees repatriating to the country. According to official sources, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra has had detailed discussions with officials of the Afghan Urban development and Housing Ministry …
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March 10, 2017 -
‘Afghanistan has no secret agreements with India’
Afghanistan has no "secret agreements" with India on any issue, a top aide of the Afghan president has said, urging Pakistan to not create hurdles in India's reconstruction efforts in the war-torn country. Citing an example of Pakistan's behaviour in creating hurdles, Homayun Qayoumi, chief advisor to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, said Pakistan did not …
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March 7, 2017 -
In defence of women’s shelters
Many of the women’s shelters currently operating in Afghanistan have been founded and funded during the Nato/US presence over the past decade. As is well known, the United States based part of its justification for the invasion of Afghanistan on the premise of liberating Afghan women from the misogyny and brutality of the Afghan Taliban. …
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March 3, 2017 -
India strongly condemns twin terror attack in Kabul
India on Thursday strongly condemned the twin terror attack in Kabul killing more than a dozen people, and voiced its resolve to work with Afghanistan to bring the perpetrators of terrorist violence to justice. "India has been a victim of terrorist violence and understands the pain and suffering of the people of Afghanistan. "We reiterate our resolve to work …
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March 2, 2017 -
The great game in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s geo-strategic importance is well established. It borders nations of the Central Asian Republics (CAR), Iran, Pakistan and China. Iran and Turkmenistan (part of CAR) have the second and third largest reserves of natural gas, which the West seeks to tap. Afghanistan’s rugged terrain and fierce tribal loyalties ensured that it was never completely subdued …
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February 27, 2017 -
Afghanistan no threat to any country: Ghani
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said his country is not a threat to any other country. "Afghanistan is an independent country and will remain so for hundreds of years to come," Ghani said here. "Those who want to change Afghanistan into a battle field will take their wishes to the grave with them." The …
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February 27, 2017 -
Afghanistan no threat to any country: Ghani
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said his country is not a threat to any other country. "Afghanistan is an independent country and will remain so for hundreds of years to come," Ghani said here. "Those who want to change Afghanistan into a battle field will take their wishes to the grave with them." The …
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February 27, 2017 -
Pakistan returns 252 Afghans in goodwill gesture
Pakistan has returned 252 Afghan nationals to their home country in a goodwill gesture even as it kept the border entry points with Afghanistan shut for the ninth day for security reasons in the wake of a series of bombings. The Afghan nationals, who were returned on Friday, spent a week under the open sky …
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February 25, 2017 -
Kabul hopes for partial reopening of border
Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal expressed hope that border points between Pakistan and Afghanistan will partially reopen on Saturday. According to Zakhilwal, Afghan authorities are hopeful that the travel routes will completely reopen in coming three or four days, Khaama Press reported. He said elder men, patients and children would travel on Saturday and …
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February 25, 2017 -
Afghanistan wants reopening of border with Pakistan
Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal on Thursday called for reopening of the border that Pakistan closed a week ago due to a series of terrorist attacks that killed over 100 people in Pakistan. Pakistan said that it closed the border over "security concerns" as those who claimed last week attacks were "from the Afghan side of …
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February 23, 2017 -
Key Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan
A key Taliban commander was killed in a drone strike attack on a militant hideout in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a defence official confirmed on Monday. "Acting upon an intelligence report, the drone attack was conducted in Nawa district on Sunday that killed the commander named Qari Salim," the official told Xinhua news agency. Qari Salim, …
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February 20, 2017 -
Key Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan
A key Taliban commander was killed in a drone strike attack on a militant hideout in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a defence official confirmed on Monday. "Acting upon an intelligence report, the drone attack was conducted in Nawa district on Sunday that killed the commander named Qari Salim," the official told Xinhua news agency. Qari Salim, …
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February 20, 2017 -
UN envoy in Islamabad to reduce Pakistan-Afghan tension
A United Nation special envoy arrived in Pakistan on Monday to reduce tensions between Islamabad and Kabul following a surge of terrorist attacks in the country that claimed over 100 lives in a few days. UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto met Special Assistant to Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi and discussed the …
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February 20, 2017 -
Pakistan summons Afghan officials, hands list of 76 militants
Hit by a wave of terror attacks, which it blames on militants from Afghanistan, the Pakistan army on Friday summoned Afghan embassy officials and handed over a list of 76 terrorists hiding in the neighbouring country. According to Inter Services Public Relations, the Deputy Head of Mission and other officials of the Afghan embassy were …
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February 17, 2017 -
Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing sealed
Pakistani authorities have sealed the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan for an indefinite period in the wake of a terror attack at a shrine in Sindh province that killed at least 72 people, the media reported on Friday. According to the authorities, the border crossing has been sealed for all kinds of trade and commercial …
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February 17, 2017 -
IS leader killed in Afghanistan
An Islamic State (IS) militant group commander has been killed during a joint military operation in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said on Friday. Qari Moneb was killed during an anti-terrorism operation by Afghan National Security and NATO-led Resolute Support troops, Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry as saying in a statement. However, the statement did …
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February 10, 2017