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Pakistan's Qureshi Meets Khalili, Talks Afghan Peace
Mohammad Karim Khalili, the leader of Hizb-e-Wahdat-e Islami and the former head of the High Peace Council, during a trip to Pakistan met with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday.
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Celebrating 100 Years of Turkish-Afghan Diplomatic Relations
Today marks the centennial anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Afghanistan. Ankara Government was officially recognized today by Afghanistan through the Treaty of Alliance signed on 1 March 1921. I use the term “Ankara Government”, because Turkey is founded in 1923, and in preceding years, Turkey was being ruled in practice by the Turkish Grand National Assembly under Ataturk’s leadership, which we call Parliamentary Government or Ankara Government.
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Kabul Once Had 23 Cinemas, Now Just 4
A look at the situation of cinemas in the country shows that Kabul, a city that hosts an estimated six million population, has only one government-owned movie theater, Ariana Cinema, and three private-owned cinemas.
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Herat Girls’ Students Put on Show Their Achievements
Following the reopening of girls’ schools in western Herat province this week, Afghan-Turkish high school’s girls students displayed their one-year achievements during an exhibition.
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Tajik president deploys 20,000 troops to border with Afghanistan
Tajikistan will deploy thousands of troops along its border with Afghanistan amid fierce fighting between the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and the Taliban.
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Asghar Afghan sacked as captain over Zimbabwe loss
Afghanistan Cricket Board on Monday announced its board members have approved the proposal of a split-captaincy for the national team, which effectively removes Asghar Afghan as skipper.
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Unpaid for Months, Afghan-Japan Hospital Staff Goes on Strike
The Afghan-Japan Hospital, the only active center treating COVID-19 patients in Kabul, will be closed if the medical staff does not receive five months' worth of unpaid wages within the week, officials of the hospital said.
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COVID-19 kills 40 people in Afghanistan in one week
Forty people have died from COVID-19 in Afghanistan in the past week, authorities said on Tuesday.
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UK could launch airstrikes from outside Afghanistan against threats: Minister
Britain could launch airstrikes from outside Afghanistan against any future terrorist threats to the UK that emerge inside the country as troops withdraw, a defense minister has said on Monday, Sky News reported.
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Pakistan’s students condemn attack on Kabul University
Pakistani students on Saturday organized a peaceful demonstration and candle-lit vigil near the National Press Club of Islamabad (NPC) to express solidarity with Afghans and protest against attacks on educational facilities including Monday’s siege at Kabul University.
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Taliban Awaits Global Assistance to Counter the COVID-19 Threat
Following the outbreak of the 4th wave of the coronavirus in the country, Jawid Hazhir, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health of the Taliban-led government, told Hasht-e Subh that 38 new cases had been registered in one day out of 829 this week.
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Antibiotics not enough to treat Covid-19
Social media is abuzz with rumours that the “coronavirus is a bacterium, not a virus, and antibiotics and aspirin should be used to treat it”,
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Envoys Seek End to Taliban’s ‘Military Offensive’
The special representatives from the United States, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, NATO, Norway, and the United Kingdom met in Rome on 22 July to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the developments in the Afghan peace negotiations after the latest round of high-level talks in Doha last week, reiterating on an immediate end to violence in the country.
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Khalilzad: Afghanistan is facing ‘great challenges ahead’
Zalmay Khalilzad said a day after his resignation as the US State Department’s special envoy for the Afghan reconciliation process that the country was facing major challenges
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Health Sector Faces Oxygen Shortage Amid COVID-19 Surge
Doctors at the Afghan-Japan Hospital say despite the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Afghanistan, there is no provision of world aid, nor omicron diagnostic kits, and that oxygen shortages have become a serious problem.
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Girls High Schools Inaugurated in Taloqan, Benefiting 11000 Students
More than 11,000 students will benefit from the new school buildings and renovated facilities that were inaugurated in Takhar province by the Afghan-German Cooperation on Monday.
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Health officials raise concern over sharp increase in COVID-19 cases
Ministry of Public Health officials said Sunday that in the past week 800 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, with Kabul, Kapisa and Maidan Wardak provinces registering the highest number of new infections.
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Road in Helmand’s Nawa district cleared of insurgents
Helmand provincial police chief Wali Jan Sarhadi said Wednesday that Afghan security and defense forces have cleared the Nawa district road of insurgents and that the road has reopened to traffic.
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Thousands take exams for Turkish-run schools in Kabul
Thousands of Afghan students, including girls under grade 7, took entrance exams on Friday for a Turkish foundation in Kabul that runs some of Afghanistan’s most highly regarded schools.
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34 COVID-19 Centers Close Across Afghanistan
Health officials said that thirty-four hospitals and centers treating COVID-19 patients have been closed after international aid was cut off in Afghanistan.
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Amir Muttaqi Travels to Qatar
Muttaqi is supposed to meet with a delegation from the European Union as well as the Gulf states.
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NATO to provide provisional funding to help run Kabul airport
NATO has not yet decided on who would run the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul once foreign troops have withdrawn, the organization’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said Monday night.
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None of the Afghan students are deprived of education
Iran's Ministry of Education say more than 527,000 students are foreign nationals in Iran and no one is deprived of education.
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Afghan-Japan Hospital Faces Lack of Equipment, Medicine
Health services at the Afghan-Japan hospital, the only active hospital for the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the country, are declining as the winter approaches, hospital officials said.
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Officials warn of possible 4th wave of COVID-19 in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s health officials on Tuesday warned of a possible 4th wave of COVID-19 in the county, adding that treatment possibilities have been minimized recently.
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