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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleSecurity 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...
View ArticleTOLOnews 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...
View Article5.2-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...
View ArticleAfghan 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. The Afghan team will next face Oman, and...
View ArticleSecond 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. Read...
View ArticleGunmen 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,...
View ArticleGovt Rejects Amnesty Report on Refugee Deaths
The Afghan government has dismissed as baseless an Amnesty International report that blames the deaths of 17 Afghans, mostly children, in displaced person camps on poor government management....
View ArticleWoman Found Hanged in Jawzjan
An investigation is underway into the death of a 27-old-year woman found Wednesday morning hanged in her home in northern Jawzjan province, local officials said.The hanging took place last night in...
View ArticleHerat Students Selected for Global Law Competition
Five students from Herat province will head to Washington DC to take part in an international moot court competition after beating students from eight universities from across Afghanistan in a...
View ArticleHerat Blast Kills Policeman, Injures 5
An Afghan policeman has been killed and five other policemen injured in a bomb blast in western Herat province Wednesday morning, local officials said. The incident took place about 11:00AM local time...
View ArticleAirstrike in Nangarhar Kills 4 Insurgents
Four Taliban insurgents have been killed and as many as two others wounded in an Isaf airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The airstrike happened in the Wazir...
View ArticleIEC Advocates Use of Old Election Cards
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has retreated from its demand for a new registration of voters countrywide in the lead up to the 2014 presidential election, saying Wednesday that the old...
View ArticleCivil Society Activists Fear Afghan Exodus
Civil society activists fear that an increase of Afghans seeking asylum abroad will further cripple the country because those with the means and talent to help rebuild are more likely to leave....
View ArticleTOLOnews 23 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has retreated from its demand for a new registration of voters countrywide in the lead up to the 2014 presidential election, saying...
View ArticleNorth Korea Plans Nuclear Test Aimed at US
North Korea said on Thursday it planned to carry out a third nuclear test and more rocket launches aimed at its "arch-enemy" the United States in response to tightened UN sanctions. Following a UN...
View Article2 Isaf Troops Die as Afghan Raids Net Insurgents
A Polish soldier was killed in an insurgent attack on troops in eastern Ghazni province in Afghanistan, spokesman of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command Miroslaw Ochyra said Wednesday. Captain...
View ArticleWorld Bank Funds Further $250m for Rural Rehab
The World Bank has agreed to fund $250 million for the third phase of Afghanistan's National Solidarity programme, the Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) said Wednesday....
View ArticleAfghan 'Spy' Killed Over Drone Strikes: Officials
Militants on Wednesday dumped the mutilated body of a purported Afghan spy accused of collaborating on US drone strikes that killed prominent warlord Mullah Nazir in South Waziristan this month,...
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