Новости за 05.09.2015

A woman was killed along with her three children after a rocket fired by Taliban militants landed in a residential house in eastern Kunar province. According to local government officials, the incident took place in Chapa Dara district earlier today. Provincial police chief Abdul Habib Syed Kheli confirmed that a woman and her three children Read the full article...

The shortest man in the world died at the age of 75 due to an illness he was suffering from recently, it has reported. Chandra Dangi, who stood at 1ft 21.5 inches tall, passed away at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago in American Samoa in the Pacific early Friday morning. Read the full article...

Saudi Arabia’s king Salman bin Abdulaziz has booked the entire 222-room hotel for his 3-night stay to United States ,paying around $1,000,000 for hotel rent only. Before his arrival to reports, the hotel was covered in gold with fleet of luxury cars and even red carpets were laid down in teh parking lot of the Read the full article...

32 more schoolgirls and their instructors were admitted to hospital after falling ill at school in western Herat province on Saturday. Doctors at Herat Regional Hospital (HRH) told reporters that these girls were brought to hospital after getting breathing problems at school in Minaro area of the city. Rafiq Shirzai, spokesman for HRH said that Read the full article...

Russia has pledged to expand Moscow’s economic projects in Afghanistan by investing in housing construction sector in the country. The commitment was made during a meeting between Russia’s deputy minister for energy Yury Sentyurin and Afghanistan’s minister of urban development affairs Syed Sadat Sadat Mansoor Naderi. Sentyurin further added that Russia will invest in housing Read the full article...

Unknown gunmen have shot dead 13 civilians in northern Balkh province. Reports suggest that the victims were traveling in a passenger bus that came under the attack of unknown armed men in Zari District on Saturday. Abdul Raziq Qaderi, Deputy Police Chief of Balkh province confirmed the report but he did not have a specific Read the full article...

The late Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar asked Pakistan’s Chief Executive Gen. Pervez Musharraf to bomb southern Kandahar province if the group’s policies were causing problems to Islamabad, it has been reported. The call by Mullah Omar was reportedly made following pressures by United States on Islamabad regarding the presence of al Qaeda chief Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Gahni has said that the Presidential election in 2019 would be the most transparent election on regional level. While talking to the participants of Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on Saturday, President Ghani said it is impossible to solve all problems at one time. He said the Electoral Reform Commission that was assigned Read the full article...

Afghanistan’s U-19 (Under 19) cricket team returned home after winning Asian Premiere Leagues championship for the second time. Senior government officials, members of parliament and cricket fans gave warm welcome to the players when they arrived in Kabul. Afghanistan played five matches with Kuwait, Nepal, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Saudi Arabia and Malaysia and remarkably Read the full article...

Ministry of Defense says that 148 insurgents have been killed and in newest security operations in 18 provinces. A statement issued by the ministry on Saturday states that the operations were conducted in Kunar, Ghazni, Logar, Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Kandahar, Urozgan, Daikundi, Zabul, Ghor, Farah, Baghlan, Sar-i-Pul, Kundoz, Faryab, Takhar and Helmand provinces in past Read the full article...

14 civilians have been wounded in a suicide blast in Logar province. Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, member of Logar’s provincial council said that the incident took place in a bus station in Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital, this morning. He said the suicide bomber blasted his explosives among a high volume of people who had come to Read the full article...

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Qatar is going to open an embassy in Kabul. A statement issued by the ministry on Saturday states that the matter was discussed between Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabani and his Qatari counterpart Khalid Bin Mohammed AlAttiyah in Kabul yesterday. The statement, however, does not specify when the Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani convened Senior Officials Meeting ‘SOM’ in Presidential Palace on Friday and explained the development and economical plans for the country. He said the agenda that the National Unity Government (NUG) presented at London conference was not only a credential but it was a charter explaining our plans for the reconstruction of Read the full article...

A senior Pakistani official has accused the former President Hamid Karzai and Afghan Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) for spoiling peace talks with the Taliban group. During a background discussion with the media ahead of Sartaj Aziz’s visit to Kabul, the official said the decision to reveal Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death amid peace Read the full article...