TOLOnews 25 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: The U.S. military has blacklisted Afghanistan's largest private airline, alleging it is smuggling "bulk" quantities of opium on civilian flights to Tajikistan, a corridor...
View ArticlePentagon Admits Budget Crisis May Hurt Afghan War Effort
The American-led war in Afghanistan is likely to be impacted by US budget cuts despite the Obama administration's plan to shield the military's combat mission from the reductions, the Pentagon's...
View ArticleBeach Football Cup Hopes Dashed After Loss to Bahrain
Afghanistan's beach football team lost to Bahrain 2-5 in its fourth and final match in Doha Friday night, its last chance to qualify for the 2013 FIFA Beach Football World Cup in Tahiti later this...
View Article70 Afghan Prisons Investigated by Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan (ICRC) will soon finalise its own report on the state of as many as 70 of the country's government-run prisons. ICRC Afghanistan spokesman...
View ArticleKANKASH: Over 1000 Afghan Security Forces Died in 6 Months
The Taliban have killed 1,100 members of the Afghan security forces in the past six months as Nato troops have stepped back and left the local army and police to fight the insurgency, the British...
View ArticleGovt Setting Up 2014 Election for Fraud: Political Council
The Cooperation Council of Political Parties and Coalitions of Afghanistan has accused the Karzai regime of setting up the 2014 presidential election for fraud after the government forced the...
View ArticleTOLOnews 24 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: Afghan political parties Thursday strongly rejected the decision of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to use the old registration system for the 2014 presidential...
View ArticleTOLOnews 25 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: The U.S. military has blacklisted Afghanistan's largest private airline, alleging it is smuggling "bulk" quantities of opium on civilian flights to Tajikistan, a corridor...
View ArticlePentagon Admits Budget Crisis May Hurt Afghan War Effort
The American-led war in Afghanistan is likely to be impacted by US budget cuts despite the Obama administration's plan to shield the military's combat mission from the reductions, the Pentagon's...
View ArticleBeach Football Cup Hopes Dashed After Loss to Bahrain
Afghanistan's beach football team lost to Bahrain 2-5 in its fourth and final match in Doha Friday night, its last chance to qualify for the 2013 FIFA Beach Football World Cup in Tahiti later this...
View ArticleKANKASH: Over 1000 Afghan Security Forces Died in 6 Months
The Taliban have killed 1,100 members of the Afghan security forces in the past six months as Nato troops have stepped back and left the local army and police to fight the insurgency, the British...
View ArticleGovt Setting Up 2014 Election for Fraud: Political Council
The Cooperation Council of Political Parties and Coalitions of Afghanistan has accused the Karzai regime of setting up the 2014 presidential election for fraud after the government forced the...
View ArticleKam Air Rejects Drug Smuggling Accusations
Officials of Afghanistan's largest private airline Kam Air have rejected the claim that the airline has been smuggling opium to neighbouring Tajikistan. Kam Air president Zmarai Kamgar Saturday said...
View ArticleBomb Attacks in Kunduz, Ghazni Hit Mostly Civilians
Two bomb attacks in two Afghan provinces on Saturday killed more than 12 people and injured at least 33 in what has been a deadly two days for Afghanistan. As many as 10 people including six...
View ArticleTOLOnews 26 January 2013
Top news in this Bulletin: The Cooperation Council of Political Parties and Coalitions of Afghanistan has accused the Karzai regime of setting up the 2014 presidential election for fraud after the...
View ArticleTraffic Laws Mostly Broken by Officials: Police
Kabul police officials Saturday said that a crackdown on illegal vehicles and increased enforcement of road rules has found that it is primarily top officials who ignore traffic laws. Specifically, a...
View ArticleUS Agrees to Refuel French Warplanes on Mali Mission
The United States has agreed to refuel French fighter jets waging war against Islamist militants in Mali, officials said Saturday, after weighing the decision for more than two weeks. Defense...
View Article8 Policemen Killed in Kandahar Blast
Eight policemen and two suspected insurgents were killed in a bomb blast in the southern Kandahar city Saturday night, local officials said. Seven other policemen were injured in the blast when their...
View ArticleTaliban Leader Arrested in Helmand Raid
A Taliban leader was arrested in a joint Afghan-Isaf operation in Lashkargah in the southern Helmand province on Saturday, Isaf said. The leader facilitated the movement of weapons, ammunition,...
View ArticleMobile Money Transfer Services to Expand: Central Bank
Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan's central bank, announced Saturday that mobile money transfer services will be expanded to more areas across the country. Central bank officials said that two...
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