Новости за 13.03.2016

As part of ongoing celebrations of Women’s History Month, USAID’s Promote Women in the Economy (WIE) program recognized three women who developed the best concepts for a mobile device application to help women confront street harassment in Afghanistan. The applications, developed as part of USAID WIE’s first Code Challenge competition, will allow women to report Read the full article...

The world’s largest cruise ship capable of holding up to 6,000 passengers has started sea trail from France, weighing in at 227,000 tons and 124ft long than the Eiffel Tower is tall. The ship, Harmony of the Seas, has been built at a cost of more than $1 billion and started its trial voyage last Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said work on key infrastructure projects including construction of water dams will start in accordance with the available resources. During a meeting of the National Procurement Commission (NPC), President Ghani reviewed a report by the Ministry of Energy and Water regarding the construction of 29 large, medium and small water Read the full article...

General Aminullah Amarkhil, police chief of central Ghazni province says several districts of his province are under severe threat which may fall if central government does not take necessary measures to suppress militants. Gen. Amarkhil added that security situation in Ghazni province has been tense and that Kabul has been informed about it. According to Read the full article...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will launch six key cultural projects in the central Bamyan province of Afghanistan. The provincial government media office said the projects will be launched in the next Afghan calendar year which includes construction of a cultural center, reconstruction of the historic Gholghola city, strengthening the porches Read the full article...

An Afghan Air Force aerial gunner communicates with the pilot of an Mi-17, owned and operated by the Kandahar Air Wing, before an engine run-up at Kandahar Airfield, March 2, 2016. Members of the AAF work closely with Train Advise Assist Command – Air, a U.S.-run functional command, that assists our Afghan partners to develop Read the full article...

A murky security operation on Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan on March 5 brought attention briefly back to an area that for nearly 25 years has rarely seen an entire week pass without some sort of incident taking place, Radio Liberty reports. The reported firefight between Tajikistan’s security forces and an armed group from Afghanistan that left Read the full article...

A child has lost life and three others sustained injuries in a bomb blast in southern Helmand province, an official said on Sunday. Omar Zwak, spokesperson for the governor told Azadi Radio that the incident took place in Khanashin district late yesterday. He said two of the three children wounded in the blast are in Read the full article...

A young man and woman was mysteriously killed by unknown gunmen in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan with the local officials hinting at honor killing over alleged adultery. The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning in Yengi Qala village in the restive Khwajah Sabs Posh district. The district administrative chief Abdullah Read the full article...

The Hezb-e-Islami party led by the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has announced the group is prepared to sit-in for peace talks with the Afghan government. The group has released a statement saying they are prepared to participate in the peace talks in a bid to show to the nation that Hezb-e-Islami wants peace. The party Read the full article...

The acting provincial governor of northern Balkh province Ata Mohammad Noor has confirmed that the Afghan forces confronted the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group during clearance operations in this province. Following the conclusion of clearance operations in Koshindih and Zareh districts, Noor said the militants cleared during the Read the full article...

The European Union Delegation in Afghanistan launched its 2016 anti-corruption campaign in Afghanistan on Saturday with an aim to help Afghan citizens fight corruption and seek to mobilise support for stronger Government action against corruption. According to a statement by the EU mission in Afghanistan, the campaign runs for seven weeks and culminates with a Read the full article...

Chinese troops will be positioned in Pakistan to protect the 3,000-km-long China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that connects the Gwadar Port in Balochistan to China’s Xinjiang region, NDTV reports. Besides, Pakistan has raised three independent infantry Brigades and two additional artillery regiments to protect the highway, security agencies have told New Delhi. A Brigade consists of least Read the full article...

The media has been rife with the reports of the Afghan cricket team victory in ICC World Twenty20 as the Afghans are celebrating the breakthrough in the next stage of the World Cup across the country. The third straight win by the Afghan team against Zimbabwe in last group match took the Afghan team into Read the full article...

The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan confirmed the killing of the group’s senior leader Mawlavi Mohammad Wali Haqqani in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to an online statement by Taliban, Mawlavi Haqqani was killed in an ambush in Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday. The statement further added that he was killed Read the full article...

Turkey has promised to build an institute of modern education and religious studies in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. Officials say the construction cost of the center would be paid the Turkish people. In a meeting with Governor Saleem Khan Kundozi in Jalalabad, a Turkish facilitator of the project said that the center would have Read the full article...

The Russian authorities are mulling to supply up to one and half million tons of fuel to Afghanistan annually in a bid to help the country with its fuel consumption demand. Russia’s Deputy Minister of Energy Yury Sentyurin has said Russia could easily supply 1 to 1.5 million tons of oil products to the Afghanistan Read the full article...

Two loyalists of the terrorist group of Islamic State (IS) which also goes by its Arabic name Daesh have been killed in the explosion of their own bomb in eastern Nangarhar province. The incident has taken place in Achin district in which three other insurgents also sustained injuries. “Two armed men belonging to Daesh were Read the full article...