By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 3, 2016 Afghanistan’s chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, has called on Indian businesses to invest in his war-torn country — including development of a proposed trade corridor through Afghanistan that links Iran with India and Central Asia. Abdullah told a meeting of top industry groups in New Delhi on February
Khaama Press: The agreement was concluded during Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah’s visit to India where he had separate meetings with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. CEO Abdullah arrived in Delhi on Sunday a 5-day visit preliminary aimed at attending conference on counter-terrorism in Jaipur state of India. Click
Live Mint: India has revised upward the cost of constructing the Afghan parliament because of pending “minor touch-up works”, with the Union cabinet on Wednesday giving its ex-post facto approval to the total figure of Rs.969 crore. The building in Kabul, part of a series of projects undertaken by India in war-torn Afghanistan, will be handed
Khaama Press: Manpreet Vohra (Indian Foreign Service Officer batch-1988) was announced as the new ambassador to Kabul by India’s Minister of External Affairs in November. Vohra is the 6th Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan after the fall of Taliban regime in 2001. Click here to read more (external link). Related Mi-25 gunships supplied by India to
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