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| Guards beat clients at crisis-hit Afghan bank |
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| KABUL (Reuters): Afghan security forces used batons on unruly account holders scrambling to withdraw their savings on Wednesday from a branch of the graft-hit Kabulbank, the country's biggest private financial... Full Story |
| 5,000 troops for Baghlan poll security |
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| PUL-I-KHUMRI (NNI): As many as 5,000 Afghan and foreign soldiers will maintain security for the September 18 parliamentary election in the northern province of Baghlan, a senior official said.
With the... Full Story |
| Candidates campaign by distributing CDs, T-shirts |
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| KABUL (NNI): Many of the candidates standing for the September 18 parliamentary election have eschewed the traditional way of gathering support and are distributing CDs, T-shirts and notebooks as well... Full Story |
| Manawi promises probe against IEC chief in Khost |
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| KHOST CITY (NNI): Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) chief Fazal Ahmad Manavi has said that he would form a delegation to investigate moral corruption charges against the poll panel's... Full Story |
| 2 personnel of pro-govt tribal militia dead |
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| KUNDUZ (AIP): Two personnel of pro-government tribal militia were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack today in northern Baghlan province, police said Wednesday.
The suicide bomber struck... Full Story |
| Journalist beheaded in Kabul |
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| KABUL (NNI): A well-known Afghan journalist has been beheaded in the capital, an official said.
Syed Hamid Noori, a presenter on the state-run RTA TV channel and deputy chairperson of the National Journalist... Full Story |
| Karzai for modernising state-run hospital |
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| KABUL (NNI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) to help improve the state-run Jamhooriat Hospital to international standards.
Chinese engineers destroyed the old building... Full Story |
| Target set
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| KABUL (NNI): Afghanistan has set an ambitious target to decrease its illiteracy rate from 74 percent to 50 percent in the next five years, a UN official said.
Only about 26 percent of the population... Full Story |
| ISAF soldier loses life |
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| KABUL (AIP): An ISAF soldier was killed Wednesday while fighting Taliban in restive southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday. The ISAF soldier “died following an insurgent attack”, the NATO-led... Full Story |
| Taliban capture 3 posts |
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| SHEBARGHAN (AIP): Taliban attacked a police post last night in Northern Sarpul province, killing two police, police said Wednesday. Earlier, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press... Full Story |
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