Новости за 20.04.2017

The Afghan government has appointed a Minister of State for tourism as efforts are underway to increase the number of global tourist with an aim to increase the government income. A presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazawi said President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has appointed Ghulam Nabi Farahi as Minister of State for Tourism through a presidential Read the full article...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told Trump that  he has commuted an immense atrocity against the Afghan people. “My message to President Donald Trump today is that he has committed an immense atrocity against the Afghan people,” He said in a Twitter post. Karzai further added that Trump has committed atrocity againstthe fellow Read the full article...

At least four militants were killed and their hideout was eliminated in an airstrike involving the newly-deployed A-29 Super Tucano aircraft in southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the militants were targeted in the vicinity of Tarinkot city, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province. A Dshk heavy machine gun as Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani inaugurated the construction work of the third phase of Kamal Khan dam in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan. The Government Media and Information Center said President Ghani was accompanied by a delegation of high level officials as he arrived in Zaranj, the provincial capital of Nimroz for the inauguration of the Read the full article...

The survey and design work of a major road was formally inaugurated in Nangarhar province in East of Afghanistan. According to the local officials, the road starts from Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar to Behsud district, having a total length of 10 kilometers. Officials in the provincial public works directorate said the survey Read the full article...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Russia has the right to have relations with the Taliban group as he has adopted a hard stance against the United States, specifically after the MOAB bombing o ISIS hideouts in Achin district of Nangarhar. During an exclusive interview with the Voice of America’s Afghanistan service, Read the full article...

The former of Minister of Education Farooq Wardak has been appointed as the Minister of State for the Parliamentary Affairs. A spokesman for the Presidential Palace, Shah Hussain Murtazawi, confirmed the appointment of Mr. Wardak late on Wednesday night. He said President Ghani issued a decree to confirm the appointment of Mr. Wardak as the Read the full article...

An explosion took place in west of Kabul city late on Wednesday night but the security officials are saying that no casualties were incurred to the civilians or security personnel. The acting head of the media department of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) Najib Danish said the incident took place in the vicinity of the Read the full article...