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AISA Pledges Industrial Parks for Afghanistan
The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) plans to build four industrial parks across Afghanistan by the end of 2013, AISA chief Wafiullah Eftekhar said Monday. The industrial parks will ease...
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Govt Adviser Seeks 'Justice' Over Tolo TV Show
An adviser at the Ministry of Finance has asked justice organs to follow up Tolo TV comedy show which he claims humiliated him in one of its sketches Wednesday night. Sayed Hamed Daqiq, who is unable...
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Kabul Insurgent Attack Shows Security Weakness: MOI
The Ministry of Interior has admitted that the storming of Kabul Traffic Department's headquarters by insurgents has revealed the deficiencies of security and intelligence organisations. A five-man...
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Afghan Officials Differ Over Torture Use in Prisons
Afghan officials are divided over a report claiming systemic torture is used in Afghanistan's prisons, with some accepting the findings of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (Unama)...
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TOLOnews 21 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: Taliban insurgents Monday launched an early morning attack in west Kabul to take over a government building, the second insurgent attack in Afghanistan's capital in a week....
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Obama Makes Forceful Call on Climate Change
US President Barack Obama vowed to make climate change a priority as he was sworn in Monday to a second term, using some of his most forceful language yet despite uncertain political prospects. In his...
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Karzai Meets US Officials, Demands Bagram Transfer
President Hamid Karzai Monday emphasised the importance of the US transferring Bagram prison detainees to Afghan authorities in a meeting with David Pearce, the acting special representative of the US...
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India, Australia to Start Nuclear Energy Talks
India and Australia plan to begin civil nuclear cooperation talks in March after Canberra agreed last year to open negotiations to export uranium fuel to the energy-hungry South Asian nation. The two...
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KANKASH: Afghanistan's Widespread Prison Torture
Afghan officials are divided over a report claiming systemic torture is used in Afghanistan's prisons, with some accepting the findings of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (Unama)...
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Afghanistan Appoints First Female District Governor
The Afghan government approved Sahra Shikeeb as district governor for Khaja Do Koh district in northern Jawizjan province, making her the Karzai regime's first female district governor."I am very...
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Nuristan Airstrike Kills 14 Insurgents: Local Officials
At least 14 Taliban insurgents including three foreigners have been killed and 21 other insurgents wounded in a US airstrike in eastern Nuristan province on Monday afternoon, Afghan local officials...
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Karzai Orders Investigation into Prison Abuses
President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the use of torture and human rights' abuses in Afghanistan's prisons, appointing a delegation to look into the findings of a United Nations...
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Beach Football Team Heads to Qatar for FIFA Qualifier
Afghanistan's national beach football team will play Qatar in the first qualifying match for the 2013 FIFA Beach Football World Cup on Tuesday evening in Qatar. "Our team has a high morale, and the...
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We Will End Trade Relations With Pakistan: ACCI
The Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) Tuesday said that it will end trade relations with Pakistan following a long-running dispute over containers stalled in Karachi port. ACCI...
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Security Failures Incite Concern for Afghan Future
The deficiencies in Afghanistan's security and intelligence organisations pose a dangerous threat to the country's future, analysts told TOLOnews Tuesday. Reacting to the two recent insurgent attacks...
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TOLOnews 22 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the use of torture and human rights' abuses in Afghanistan's prisons, appointing a delegation to look into the...
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5.2-Magnitude Quake Hits Hindu Kush
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan at 15:09:22 GMT on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 51.60 km, was...
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Afghan Beach Football Team Beats Qatar
Afghanistan's beach football team beat Qatar 7-3 Tuesday night in its first of three matches to qualify for a place in the 2013 FIFA Beach Football World Cup. Read more...
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Second Pakistan Politician Shot Dead in Karachi
A Pakistani politician was shot dead in Karachi in the second such killing in a week, police said Wednesday, fuelling fears that violence may overshadow general elections expected this year. Mian...
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Gunmen Shoot Dead Doctor in Helmand
Gunmen shot dead an Afghan doctor in southern Helmand province on Tuesday afternoon for motives that are not yet clear, local officials said Wednesday. The shooting happened in Helmand's capital,...
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