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Afghanistan is set to ask the international community at a conference in Paris next month for $50.1bn to finance its reconstruction during the next five years. The… Share This
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
... revamp decrepit infrastructure, including airports, an urban development project on the fringe of Kabul and construction of a functioning railway.Another $14.2bn is planned for building Afghanistan's security services to combat the Taliban insurgency, which is currently tackled with international military assistance. Large amounts of cash are to be spent on agriculture and rural development,...
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Kabul - Four soldiers - two Afghan troops and two Canadians serving under NATO command - were wounded in a suicide attack in southern Kandahar province, officials said Friday. The incident took place in the village of Nalgam in the Zirai district of ...
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Kabul - Taliban militants Friday claimed their forces were engaged in heavy fighting in Ghorak district of the southern province of Kandahar, but Afghan security officials said the fighting had been brief and the district was firmly under the control...
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Xinhua Kabul, May 16 (Xinhua) At least five Taliban militants were killed and six injured Friday in a gunfight with the police in southern Afghan province of Zabul, officials said Friday. The incident took place at 1 a.m. A group of insurgents attacked the office of the district chief in Shinkay in Zabul Province. The police [...]
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Kabul - At least eight militants were detained during an Afghan National Security and US-led coalition forces' joint operation in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, a coalition statement said Friday. The arrests were made on Thursday after the co...
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Foreign intelligence agents are leading secret, deadly raids on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and shirking responsibility when innocent civilians are killed, a U.N. official alleged Thursday. Read the full story
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Pakistani efforts to negotiate peace deals with militants in the border regions with Afghanistan have raised concerns in Kabul and Washington
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from the Associated Press via Google By FISNIK ABRASHI KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan will ask international donors next month for $50 billion to fund a five-year development plan, a presidential aide said, despite growing criticism that aid money is being wasted. About $14 billion is to go toward improving deteriorating security, but the key target is reviving the decrepit agricultural sector,...
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber wearing a burqa attacked a police patrol at a crowded market in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27 others, officials said. Read the full story
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The Taliban bans TV in a province near Kabul.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
DPA Kabul, May 15 (DPA) A UN Human Rights Council official said Thursday that Afghan and international forces in the country have killed at least 200 civilians during their operations this year, while in some incidents foreign intelligence services were also responsible for such deaths. Special Rapporteur for the UN Human Rights Council Philip Alston said [...]
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From his/her admirers at Reuters: An Afghan woman carries cucumbers on her head in the old city of Kabul. Suicide blast kills 12 Afghan civilians, 6 police By Sharafuddin Sharafyar Thu May 15 HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber disguised in a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing six [...]
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Kabul - A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of police vehicles in south-western Afghanistan Thursday, killing 16 people, including a police commander, and wounding 28, provincial official said. The bomber, who was wearing women's clothes, killed four...
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DPA Kabul, May 15 (DPA) A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of police vehicles in south-western Afghanistan Thursday, killing 16 people, including a police commander, and wounding 28, provincial official said. “The bomber, who was wearing women's clothes, killed four policemen and 12 civilians,” said Mohammad Younus Rasouli, deputy governor of Farah province. The attack took place [...]
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meri72 | 04/11/2008
The Afghan Association of Blog Writers (Afghan Penlog) overcame financial difficulty and obstacles like electricity shortages to organize the first blogging workshop in their history. The workshop was held in Kabul on April 3-4, in association with Nasim Fekrat and Masoumeh Ebrahimi [Fa], two active Afghan bloggers.
meri72 | 04/11/2008
For the first time in Afghanistan , a two days Blogging workshop was organized by the Afghan Association of Blog Writers . The participants were an Afghan journalist, a University teacher, a poet and writers from different provinces and of various ethnic backgrounds. The main goals of this workshop are better access of journalists to weblogs and other digital media. Since Afghan print and internet
raimondo | 01/13/2008
Afghanistan: Army discovers Iranian mines on road from Kabul Kabul, 11 Jan. (AKI) – Mines produced in Iran have been discovered and seized by Afghani armed forces along the road between the capital, Kabul, and the eastern city of Jalalabad. "These mines are the latest technology and considered very dangerous," said a spokesman from the organisation for Afghani national security. It is not the first
