Two 17-year-old Afghan teenagers seeking asylum in the UK have been handed custodial sentences for raping a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa, a media report said on Tuesday.
Afghan and Kazakh officials have discussed regional connectivity and linking Central and South Asian countries through Afghanistan, as well as the launch of practical work on the Torghundi–Herat and Herat–Kandahar railway lines.
Six Pakistani soldiers have been killed in an attack on a security post in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), according to media reports on Tuesday.
Fresh figures from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) show 130 pharmaceutical factories are currently operating across Afghanistan, producing more than 60 types of medicines.
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) says 18,000 tonnes of crude oil extracted from the Qashqari block in the Amu Darya basin has been sold for $10.5 million through an open bidding.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) says police have impounded 1,200 single-key and undocumented vehicles over the past week in different parts of Kabul city.
A panel discussion on Afghanistan at the Doha Forum— attended by a representative of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)— has stressed the country’s economic development through regional connectivity.
The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department says mushroom farms have been established for dozens of farmers in the Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province as an alternative to poppy cultivation.
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Sunday signed an investment term sheet with DP World to equip Afghanistan’s commercial ports with modern technology, an official said.
The Economic Commission (EC) has approved the construction of a substation for the Barikab Industrial Park in central Parwan province at a cost of 360 million afghanis, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said on Sunday.
