KABUL and making the Chabahar port functional, says a media report. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will pay an official visit to India from January 7 to 9 for talks with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, an Indian newspaper…
The Herat Police Headquarters Director of Terrorism Department Fazal Rahman Khadem has filed a case against Iranian consul general in connection to targeted killing and his brother murder in the province. Khadem, two days after his brother…
Iranian Leader’s envoy Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani has arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul this morning for a one-day state visit, according to a media report. Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, accompanied by…
KABUL and Iran on Tuesday held their first trilateral meeting on Chabahar port project during which they reviewed its implementation, a media report said on Wednesday. According to Economic Times, the meeting assumes significance as the strategically-located port on the…
Tehran and Tokyo have agreed to join hands to train Afghan customs staff, Iran’s state run news agency reports. The two countries had inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) providing for cooperation on training Afghan customs staff, IRNA…
KABUL and Iraq from March 21 to Aug. 22, a media report says. Iran’s steel exports to the two war-devastated countries amounted to more than $546 million, The Financial Tribune reported on Wednesday During the first five months of the…
KABUL has repudiated a media report that it has banned imports from neighbouring Iran in the wake of fresh US sanctions on the Persian Gulf nation. Imports from Iran only through the Farah border had been banned, the head of…
KABUL’s relations with Iran would not be affected by its ties with other countries. A statement from the CEO office received by Pajhwok Afghan News said Abdullah met with Iranian deputy foreign minister Sayed Abbas Iraqchi in Kabul on Tuesday…
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) on Thursday said Iran has cut short electricity supply to Afghanistan due to the rise in temperature and reducing water level in the neighboring country’s dams. Amanullah Ghalib, DABS general head, told…
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) on Thursday said Iran has cut short electricity supply to Afghanistan due to the rise in temperature and reducing water level in the neighboring country’s dams. Amanullah Ghalib, DABS general head, told…
Hundreds of Afghan detainees in Iran and Tajikistan would be transferred to the country soon, the Attorney General Office (AGO) said on Thursday. Aziz Ahmad Sarbaz, a senior AGO officer, told Pajhwok Afghan News around 4,000 Afghans had…
Two to three million US dollars are being transferred to Iran from Afghanistan’s western zone on a daily basis, officials and moneychangers claim. Bahauddin Rahimi, head of the Moneychangers Union (MCU) and Chamber of Industries and Mining…
KABUL restore security. Afghanistan was willing to step up cooperation with Tehran on combating drug smuggling, Ghani said at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Qingdao. Hassan Rouhani and…
More than 500 convicted Afghans are ready to be extradited to their own country, Iran’s Ministry of Justice said on Saturday. The Afghan convicts imprisoned in Iran are ready to be handed over to their own country's authorities,…
KABUL have gone up by more than 21 percent in terms of tonnage and 13.57 percent in year-on-year value, a media report said on Monday. The neighbouring country exported 5.91 million tonnes of commodities worth $2.79 billion to Afghanistan last…
KABUL (Pajwhok): Two Afghan laborers have died in Tehran, the capital of neighboring Iran, after an old wall they were digging fell on them, a report said on Friday. The Afghans were busy demolishing an old building to construct a…
KABUL and Iran traded 5.32 million tonnes of non-oil commodities worth $2.48 billion in 11 months till Feb. 19, a news report said on Monday. In terms of tonnage and value, the commodity exchange growth of 18.64 percent and 8.92…
Twenty-one Afghan refugees have injured in a road accident in neighboring Iran two days ago, officials in southwestern Nimroz province said on Sunday. Haji Gul Safi, Nimroz refugee and repatriation director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 10 of…
Iran has invited Pakistan and India. Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Javad Zarif, who held out the offer, sought to allay concerns in Islamabad over India’s involvement in the Iranian port. On a three-day visit to Pakistan, Zarif made…
KABUL, seeking cooperation from neighbours. Deputy Defense Minister Ahmad Tamim said Afghanistan highly valued its friendship with Iran. He said ties with Iran would not be affected by relations with other countries. Currently heading a high-level delegation to Iran, Tamim…
Intelligence officials on Tuesday confiscated 25 tons of chicken meat after being smuggled into western Herat province from Iran, an official said. The driver of the vehicle carrying the meat worth about 2.3 million afghanis has been…
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, the Afghan ambassador in Iran has said regional countries should not categorize terrorist groups into ‘bad’ and ‘good’, stressing these groups are only bad. Dr. Nasir Ahmad Noor, the Afghan envoy in…
Lawmaker Nahid Farid has said Afghanistan’s current economy is fueling terrorism as rebel groups are using energy and oil to meet their operational costs. Nahid, who is in Tehran, Iran’s capital, to attend the Tehran Security Conference. Talking…
Iran has been deporting up to 50 Afghan refugee children into western Herat province on a daily basis, local officials said on Thursday. The provincial Refugees and Repatriation Department head, Javed Naadim, told Pajhwok Afghan News currently…
