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NATO Drone Strike in Kunar, Casualty Reports Differ
Local provincial officials said that eight civilians and six Taliban insurgents were killed by a NATO drone airstrike in eastern Kunar province Saturday night. However, coalition officials refuted...
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MoEW Signs Electricity Contract with Gammon India
The Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) on Sunday signed a contract with an Indian company, Gammon India, to transfer 20KW electricity from Mazar-e-Sharif to Marmul and Khulm districts in...
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Senators Fear Low Rural Voter Turnout
Several Afghan Senators on Sunday said that unless registration services and voting facilities are more available to remote villages, the majority of people in the most rural areas of the country...
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Eve of Massoud Anniversary Brings Reflection on Role of Women, Martyrs' Families
At a gathering organized jointly by the Ahmad Shah Massoud Foundation (ASMF) and the Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWA) in Kabul city on Sunday, several officials took the opportunity to reflect on the...
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MPs, Senators, Tribal Elders Form New Alliance
After the recent formation announcements of two alliances – the Afghanistan Electoral Alliance (AEA) and the Association of National Amity of Afghanistan (ANAA) – a new group under the name of...
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Selection Committee to Submit Nominations for ECC by Saturday
The Selection Committee for the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Sunday announced that by the end of this week, it would send the 15-name list of nominees for ECC membership to President Hamid...
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Presidential Palace Chides Dobbins' 'Civil War' Comment
Aimal Faizi, the spokesman of President Hamid Karzai, on Sunday responded harshly to the recent statements made by James Dobbins, the United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, claiming...
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Afghanistan Defeats Nepal 1-0 in SAFF Semi-Final Thriller
The Afghan National Football Team narrowly beat Nepal 1-0 in the semi-final match of the 2013 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup on Sunday night. After its harrowing victory against the...
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TOLOnews 08 September 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: Provincial officials on Sunday said that four employees of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) of Maidan Wardak province were killed and 120 civilians injured during a...
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MoEW Signs Electricity Contract with Gammon India
The Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) on Sunday signed a contract with an Indian company, Gammon India, to transfer 20KW electricity from Mazar-e-Sharif to Marmul and Khulm districts in...
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Senators Fear Low Rural Voter Turnout
Several Afghan Senators on Sunday said that unless registration services and voting facilities are more available to remote villages, the majority of people in the most rural areas of the country...
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MPs, Senators, Tribal Elders Form New Alliance
After the recent formation announcements of two alliances – the Afghanistan Electoral Alliance (AEA) and the Association of National Amity of Afghanistan (ANAA) – a new group under the name of...
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Selection Committee to Submit Nominations for ECC by Saturday
The Selection Committee for the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Sunday announced that by the end of this week, it would send the 15-name list of nominees for ECC membership to President Hamid...
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Afghanistan Defeats Nepal 1-0 in SAFF Semi-Final Thriller
The Afghan National Football Team narrowly beat Nepal 1-0 in the semi-final match of the 2013 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup on Sunday night. After its harrowing victory against the...
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Kerry Defends Release of Syria Attack Videos
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday defended the publication of graphic videos showing victims of an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian regime that has catalysed an American push for...
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Approval of Law on Mines Delay Stalling Foreign Investments
The Ministry of Mines (MoM) on Sunday said that the delay in Parliament's approval of the New Law on Mines was hampering the Afghan economy by keeping interested foreign investors from injecting...
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Pakistan to Send Baradar to Saudi or Turkey for Peace Talks
The Pakistani government on Monday said that it would soon be releasing Mullah Baradar, the former deputy of the Taliban's top leader Mullah Omar, from prison. Pakistani officials said that Baradar...
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U.S. 'Air Combat Troops' Expected to Stay Post-2014
Some U.S. combat forces will need to remain in Afghanistan after NATO's mission ends in 2014, top commanders in the war-ravaged country say as they await guidance from the President on how many U.S....
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Avetisyan Warns of History Repeating Itself, Rebukes NATO
Andrey Avetisyan, the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan, on Monday warned the international community of the potential consequences of abandoning Afghanistan in the middle of its war against...
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Afghans Celebrate National Team Success
Coming just three weeks after the capital erupted in jubilation following the Afghan National Football Team's historic victory over Pakistan, a hair-raising 1-0 victory over Nepal in the semi-finals...
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