Ayaz Gul VOA News October 6, 2019 ISLAMABAD – A group of 11 key Taliban prisoners is reported to have been released from the joint Afghan-U.S. Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan in exchange for three Indian hostages. Insurgent sources said Sunday the swap took place in the northern province of Baghlan and two former Taliban
Tolo News: Iranian Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni said that India’s development work had been “very slow”, and that trade to Afghanistan was “much lower” than it should be, India’s The Hindu reported. He also said that in view of the delay over India’s plans to build a railway line connecting Chabahar port to the Afghan
Ariana: For the first time, the Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industries exported 20 tons of grapes to India’s markets through Iran’s Chabahar Port, officials said on Wednesday. Afghanistan will soon begin exports of Kandahar pomegranate and Maidan Wardak apple via Chabahar to India’s markets. Afghan officials believe that the increase of business through Chabahar will pave
Press TV August 13, 2019 Iran’s minister of transportation says good progress has been made at construction activities for a strategic railway linking the port of Chabahar on the Sea of Oman to the city of Zahedan near the Iranian-Afghan border. Mohammad Eslami said on Saturday that at least 40 percent of the 580-kilometer railway,
Tolo News: An Afghan airliner en route to India was barred from crossing Pakistan’s airspace and was forced to return to Kabul, an official from Kabul-based Kam Air said. Najib Paiman, a spokesman for the airline, said the plane was forced to return due to the tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi. Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority
Tehran Times February 26, 2019 At the inauguration ceremony of the new export route in Nimruz that would allow the war-ravaged country have access to markets overseas, President Ashraf Ghani said Afghanistan was slowly improving its exports in a bid to reduce its trade deficit. “Chabahar port is the result of healthy cooperation between India,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 24, 2019 Afghanistan has sent its first exports shipment to India through Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port. The port on the Indian Ocean, inaugurated in 2017, has been built largely by India and will provide a key supply route for Afghanistan while allowing India to bypass rival Pakistan to trade
Michael Hughes: The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) attack on Indian troops in Kashmir could waste some of the goodwill Pakistan had built up with the Trump administration vis-à-vis the Taliban peace talks. Islamabad was on the verge of a major diplomatic coup in Kabul but now may have “snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,” as they say.
PTI: Every couple of months Surveer Singh, who fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, is torn between identity and livelihood. Surveer Singh’s family had been living in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province before his parents decided to move to India in 1992, when a wave of Hindus and Sikhs left Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the USSR
The Wire: While Indians had taken umbrage at US President Donald Trump’s dig at New Delhi not doing enough in Afghanistan, former president Hamid Karzai has defended him by saying that Trump was simply referring to what Afghans want: a larger role for India in the region. Click here to read more (external link).