Mines Law Impasse Angers Officials
A number of Afghan officials on Monday raised concern over the stalemate facing the new mines law in Parliament. They said the failure to pass the law was one of the major causes of declining...
View ArticleTOWDE KHABARE: U.S. Wants BSA Signed Within Weeks, Not Months: Carney
A security agreement between the United States and Afghanistan should be signed within weeks, not months if Kabul wants U.S. troops to remain in-country after 2014, White House spokesman Jay Carney...
View ArticleENTEKHABAT 93: 87 Days To The Elections Jan 07, 2014
Today's election stories:Host Sadaf Amiri discusses the referral of presidential and provincial candidates' criminal cases to the general attorney with the head of TOLO News election programming Abdul...
View ArticleFARAKHABAR: 07 January 2014
A security agreement between the United States and Afghanistan should be signed within weeks, not months if Kabul wants U.S. troops to remain in-country after 2014, White House spokesman Jay Carney...
View ArticleANSA Seeks to Ensure Quality Petroleum Distribution
Just one third of Afghanistan's needed petroleum supplies - about one million tones per year - are imported legally, an official from the Afghanistan National Standards Authority (ANSA) said on...
View ArticleAttack on Top Afghan Intelligence Official Foiled
Three suicide bombers armed an automatic rifle and a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) were arrested Wednesday morning in Kabul before launching an attack on the Afghan's intelligence agency's number...
View ArticleForeigners Hunt Rare Birds In Western Afghanistan
Arab and other foreign national hunters with trained birds of prey have travelled to western Afghanistan to hunt rare birds and crawls despite a Presidential decree outlawing such hunting in...
View ArticleGates Criticises Obama's Afghan Tactics
The Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has written a book strongly criticising President Barack Obama's handling of the Afghan war. In "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War", Robert Gates...
View ArticleIslamic Scholars Show Divide Over BSA
Despite the Islamic scholars represented at the Loya Jirga in November voting to approve the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), on Friday it was reported that a number of them expressed opposition to...
View ArticleU.S. Designates Taliban Leader Qari Saifullah Terrorist
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday declared Qari Saifullah, a Quetta-based Taliban leader, a specially designated global terrorist. The leader is a Taliban's shadow deputy governor and an...
View ArticleANP Recruits to Learn How to Diffuse IEDs
Officials of Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Monday said that the opening of a engineering school will help Afghan National Police (ANP recruits learn more about mines and explosive materials, and...
View ArticleTOLOnews 08 January 2014
Top news in this Bulletin: Three suicide bombers armed an automatic rifle and a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) were arrested Wednesday morning in Kabul before launching an attack on the Afghan's...
View ArticleFormer Miss Venezuela Shot Dead in Front of Daughter
Gunmen shot dead a former Miss Venezuela and her British-born partner in front of their five-year-old daughter, who was wounded in an attack that dismayed the crime-plagued nation, authorities said...
View ArticleFour US Military Dead in British Helicopter Crash
A US military helicopter crashed while on a low-level training exercise in eastern England on Tuesday, killing all four crew members, military officials announced. "A US Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk...
View ArticleMines Law Impasse Angers Officials
A number of Afghan officials on Monday raised concern over the stalemate facing the new mines law in Parliament. They said the failure to pass the law was one of the major causes of declining...
View ArticleThree Pakistani Soldiers, 10 Militants Killed in Waziristan
At least 10 militants and three soldiers were killed in a clash in northwest Pakistan late Wednesday, the military said. The incident took place in South Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan...
View ArticleFARAKHABAR: 08 January 2014
The Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has written a book strongly criticising President Barack Obama's handling of the Afghan war.To watch the programme, click...
View ArticleTOLOnews Exclusive Interview with Mohaqiq
To watch Mujahid Kakar's interview with Mohammad Mohaqiq, second vice president to Abdullah Abdullah, click here: {youtube}VApaOHKwKqY{/youtube}
View ArticleTOWED K HABARE: Gates Criticises Obama's Afghan Tactics
The Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has written a book strongly criticising President Barack Obama's handling of the Afghan war.To watch the programme, click...
View ArticleSIGAR Warns Of Looming Banking Crisis in Afghanistan
In a recent report, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) discusses instability in the banking system in Afghanistan and said that the Central Bank of Afghanistan...
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