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AEA Worried About IEC Autonomy and Electoral Fraud
The newly formed Afghanistan Electoral Alliance (AEA) on Saturday expressed concerns with the government's influence on the functioning of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the outcome of...
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World Bank Study Reveals Low Female University Enrolment
Female access to higher education in Afghanistan is considered one of the most pressing issues facing the country's education system. Based on the sobering revelations of a recently published by the...
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Kabul-Heart Truckers Strike Intensifies
After staging demonstrations in Kabul city, truck drivers who commute on the Kabul-Herat highway announced on Saturday that vehicles of the Kabul-Herat Transportation Union (K-HTU) would halt all...
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Islamabad and Kabul Agree to Relocate Taliban’s Qatar Office
In the wake of President Hamid Karzai's trip to Islamabad last week, and over two months after plans for peace negotiations with the Taliban at their office in Qatar unraveled, a top-ranking Pakistani...
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TOLOnews 31 August 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: The newly formed Afghanistan Electoral Alliance (AEA) on Saturday expressed concerns with the government's influence on the functioning of the Independent Election Commission...
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Officials Concerned About Civilian Casualty Uptick
Officials from the Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and Ministry of Interior (MoI) have expressed concerns about the rise in civilian causalities seen this year, which are said to be a...
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Selection Committee Receives 300 Applications for ECC Membership
The Selection Committee for the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Saturday announced that it had received over 300 applications for ECC membership. Gul Rahman Qazi, Director of the Commission...
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AEA Worried About IEC Autonomy and Electoral Fraud
The newly formed Afghanistan Electoral Alliance (AEA) on Saturday expressed concerns with the government's influence on the functioning of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the outcome of...
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World Bank Study Reveals Low Female University Enrolment
Female access to higher education in Afghanistan is considered one of the most pressing issues facing the country's education system. Based on the sobering revelations of a recently published by the...
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Kabul-Heart Truckers Strike Intensifies
After staging demonstrations in Kabul city, truck drivers who commute on the Kabul-Herat highway announced on Saturday that vehicles of the Kabul-Herat Transportation Union (K-HTU) would halt all...
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Islamabad and Kabul Agree to Relocate Taliban’s Qatar Office
In the wake of President Hamid Karzai's trip to Islamabad last week, and over two months after plans for peace negotiations with the Taliban at their office in Qatar unraveled, a top-ranking Pakistani...
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TOLOnews 31 August 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: The newly formed Afghanistan Electoral Alliance (AEA) on Saturday expressed concerns with the government's influence on the functioning of the Independent Election Commission...
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Obama Asks Congress to Authorize Syria Strike
Taking a huge political gamble, US President Barack Obama on Saturday asked Congress to authorize military action against Syria, in a move which lifted the threat of immediate strikes on President...
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Putin Rejects US's Syria Chemical Use Claim, Demands Proof
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday dismissed claims that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons, demanding that the United States provide proof rather than taking rash action. Read more...
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Saffron Cultivation Increases Across 26 Provinces: Officials
Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MoAIL)said Saturday that saffron cultivation has spread from 20 provinces to 26 in the past year. While the Ministry reported...
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Afghan Team to Face Bhutan in South Asian Cup
The Afghan National Football Team will face Bhutan on Monday in the South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup (SAFF) held in Nepal. The match will be broadcasted live on TOLO and Lamar TV starting at...
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Special Forces Kill Seven Insurgents in Herat
Local Herat officials said on Sunday that seven Taliban insurgents, including two commanders, were killed in an operation launched by the Afghan National Army (ANA) Special Forces Saturday night in...
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Bomb Destroys Nangarhar Mayor’s Vehicle
Local Nangarhar provincial officials confirmed that a bomb blew up Nangarhar Mayor Lal Agha Kakar's car on Sunday. The Mayor was not in his car when the explosion occured and was not hurt, however,...
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NAWJ Holds Meeting, Baha Says More Female Judges Needed
At a three-day conference held at the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, over 180 female judges gathered for the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) to discuss strategies for getting more female...
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IDLG and IARCSC Gather to Discuss Good Governance
The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission (IARCSC) organised a meeting on Sunday in Kabul city to discuss ways to ensure...
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