Khaama Press: The Cricket Board said construction work of the ground will kick off this week and will take at least one for the completion of the work. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) Chief Executive Nasimullah Danish told reporters in Kabul that the cricket ground will provide facilities for cricket athletes in southern and southwestern provinces. According to
Khaama Press: At least 23 fanatics of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate airstrikes by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday. A statement by MoD said the fanatics of the terror group were killed in Achin and Kot
NDTV: A man has been detained after a car with explosives was found near the Indian consulate in Herat in Afghanistan, said Amar Sinha, the Indian ambassador to Afghanistan. According to sources, the vehicle was searched and seized after it was found abandoned near the consulate with a punctured wheel, hinting that was not meant for the
Khaama Press: Both substations are part of the 220 kV Pul-e-Khumri – Kabul transmission system and will provide power to Charikar district in Parwan and Doshi district in Baghlan, and their neighbouring areas. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Amar Sinha has said that the terrorist attack on India’s consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif would not deter ties between New Delhi and Kabul. “Such attacks would further strengthen ties between the two countries,” he told reporters during a visit to the consulate that was under attack for about 25 hours. Click
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say security forces have killed all four heavily armed assailants who have been holed up since Sunday night in a building near India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told VOA at least one security personnel
Sputnik: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Monday condemned what he called a cross-border attack on an Indian air force base near Pakistan, the Indian prime minister’s office said in a press release Monday. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say that several heavily-armed assailants were still holed up in a building just meters from India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and a gunfight fight was underway with national security forces. The siege in the Balkh province began Sunday night when a group of
VOA News / January 3, 2016 Unidentified militants attempted to storm the Indian consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif Sunday as gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades rocked the surrounding area, a spokesman for the local governor told VOA. Munir Ahmad Farhad said the gunmen fired the rockets from a building across the street from
VOA News Hasib Danish Alikozai December 26, 2015 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan this week is a new step in the three countries’ effort to find a more normal pattern of existing alongside each other, regional analysts say. While in Kabul on Friday, Modi helped inaugurate the new parliament building,