Новости за 29.11.2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced a grant of $11 million for enhanced project facilities, primarily to support slaughterhouses and modernization of the livestock industry. The fund is in fact coming from the government of the United Kingdom (UK) but it would be transferred to ADB and spent through Afghanistan Infrastructure Trust Fund (DFID Read the full article...

The High Office of Anti-Corruption on Sunday released its report enlisting the current and fixed assets in possession of President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani. According to the report, President Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani are jointly in possession of the properties which includes $4.817 million in current assets mainly obtained Read the full article...

Unidentified armed men have shot dead a teacher with his son in Khas Urozgan District of central Urozgan province. Governor of Khas Urozgan District says gunmen went to the instructor’s house in Shaikhi area and as he went out with his son they were shot dead. He said miscreants gunned down a third person who Read the full article...

The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Oman by 27 runs in the first Twenty20 match of Afghanistan Tour of United Arab Emirates. Afghanistan set a target of 160 runs from 20 overs and by losing 8 wickets after Oman won the toss and elected to field first. Despite losing opener Mohammad Shahzad during the first Read the full article...

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has rescued a child from kidnappers in capital Kabul. A statement released by the NDS on Sunday states that eight-year-old Mohammad Ibrahim who is a student of grade eight was kidnapped from the 17th sector of the city and kept in Astar Ghach village of Read the full article...

Government has appointed five new ambassadors and reassigned the envoy in the United States. According to documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received by Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN), Mirwais Nayeb has been appointed as the ambassador to Turkmenistan, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal to Pakistan, Sayed Musdaq Khalili to Czech Republic, Shukria Barakzai to Norway and Read the full article...

Russian Federation has imposed sanctions against Turkey following the downing of Russian Su-24 bomber. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree imposing a package of economic sanctions against Turkey that includes banning several Turkish organizations and the import of certain goods, Russian state media RT reported. A decree on “measures providing the national security of Read the full article...

Unknown gunmen have killed the former director of Hajj and Religious Affairs in the southwestern Nimroz province. Reports suggest that Sayed Nazir Sadat was returning from mosque after offering prayers when unidentified gunmen opened fire at him in Zaranj, the provincial capital of Nimroz, last night. Mohammmad Ghaws, a police officer of Nimroz said the Read the full article...

Russian Federation has reiterated its commitment of assisting Afghanistan in its fight against terrorism. The pledge was made during a meeting between Russian ambassador to Kabul and Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Saturday. Atmar told Russian ambassador Alexander Mantytskiy that his country needs the assistance of neighboring and regional countries to Read the full article...