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  • Afghan Deputy Minister of Mines Resigns

    The Afghan Deputy Minister of Mines and Industries resigned from his post for his arguments with the Minister of Mines over the ministry's future plans and hiring unprofessional employees After the resignation of Muhammad Ikram Ghiasi, the Deputy Mini...
  • Key US Diplomat to Help the Afghan Attorney General

    The US ambassador on rules of law and law enforcement to Afghanistan, Hans Klemm on Saturday took his office as an advisor to the Afghan Attorney General The mentioned American official will cooperate with Afghan Attorney Office, High Court and the Minis...
  • RSF Condemns the Ban of a Private Afghan TV

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in a statement condemned the closure of the Emroz TV channel by the Afghan Council of Ministers Reporters Without Borders called the action taken by the Afghan government for the blockage of the TV a new interference. ...
  • Five Taliban Removed from UN Sanctions List

    Five Taliban members have been removed from a United Nations Security Council sanctions listThey include Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad Awrang a former Taliban envoy to the UN, and Abdul Salaam Zaeef, a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and also former ...
  • 50 Policemen Fired in Herat, Western Afghanistan

    Nearly, 50 Afghan policemen accused of bribery and misuse of their posts were sacked in Herat, a Western Afghan province Provincial police officials in western Afghanistan said that these policemen were taking money from drivers on Herat-Kandahar high wa...
  • FBI to Help Probe Afghan War Leaks

    The US Secretary of Defence said that the the US defence department has asked the FBI to help investigate the leak of more than 90,000 secret military logs Speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday the US Secretary of Defence, Robert Gate...
  • Analysts See Afghan War a Failure

    Some Afghan analysts commented on Tuesday that the war the foreign forces are fighting in Afghanistan is a failure "The coalition countries have not adequately fulfilled their commitments and duties in Afghanistan, and this is the only reason that Afghan...
  • Second US Missing Soldier Body Found in Afghanistan

    Foreign officials in Afghanistan said the second of the two US service members who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been found dead An official in National Directorate of Security said the body was discovered in eastern Logar province. Meanwhil...
  • More than 50 Dead in Afghan Floods

    At least 50 people have died of floods caused due to heavy rainfalls in the past two days, most of them in eastern and central provinces, officials said Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) said 31 people in Kapisa, 12 in Laghman, 3 ...
  • Karzai: the Fight here, Enemy Elsewhere

    President Karzai said on Tuesday that, "the international community is here to fight terrorism, but the danger is based elsewhere and they are not acting against it"The insurgents' sanctuaries have not been targeted outside Afghanistan, it is a controvers...
  • 9 Private Security Guards Killed in Afghanistan

    At least nine guards of private security companies were killed and another two got wounded in two separate incidents in the southern Ghazni province Six guards of a security company were killed when their car was hit by a road-side mine in the province's ...
  • Two Italian Soldiers Killed in Western Afghanistan

    At least two Italian soldiers were killed in a mine explosion in Enjeel district of the western Herat province on Wednesday night These soldiers were killed at 9pm on Wednesday in Enjeel district after Afghan and coalition forces defused two mines, bu...
  • Blast Hits NATO Supply Vehicles in Southern Afghanistan

    A convoy of NATO supplies was hit by a road-side mine blast in the southern Paktia province on Thursday morning The incident occured at 10am on Thursday at the province's Sit-e-Kandow district when a NATO supply convoy was passing by the area, a spoke...
  • The War against Terror is not Genuine: MoD

    A top official in the Afghan Ministry of Defence (MoD) Wednesday said that a lack of sincerity in the war against terror in the region will give birth to numerous challenges Insurgents are a threat to Afghanistan, region and world and the war will contin...
  • Former ISI Authority Warns Pakistan Government

    The former ISI member, Colonel Imam, has warned Pakistan's government that he will disclose intelligence secrets if Pakistan does not increase efforts for his release Imam, speaking in Urdu in a video footage released recently has warned that he will unve...
  • Plane Crash in Pakistan Kills 152

    All the passengers on board in the Pakistani airliner that crashed on Wednesday morning in bad weather on hills near the capital, Islamabad, have been killed, officials said The plane belonging to AirBlue, a private airliner, lost contact with Islamabad ...
  • 11 Killed in Floods in Eastern Afghanistan

    At least 11 people have died after heavy rainfalls and floods on Tuesday night in the eastern Laghman province Heavy rainfalls have started and are continuing in Dawlat Shah, Ali Sheng and Qarghayi districts of Laghman, a spokesman for the governor of...
  • Mine Blast kills 20 in Afghanistan

    At least 20 Afghan civilians were killed and another 25 were wounded in a road-side mine blast Wednesday morning in the south-western Nimroz province The incident happened when a passenger car, on its way to Kabul, was struck by a mine blast on Wednes...
  • ISAF: Local Police Beneficial in Afghanistan

    A top ISAF official Tuesday said that the formation of local police forces is beneficial bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan Director of force-reintegration cell, Major General Philip Jones said in an interview with TOLOnews that the Afghan Min...
  • A Private TV Broadcast Banned in Afghanistan

    The broadcast of a private Afghan TV Channel was blocked by the Afghan Council of Ministers Tuesday after being accused of provoking friction and ruining national unity Head of "Imroz", the banned Afghan channel, called the decision made by the Counci...

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(As of 07 September, 2010)

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