The work on first phase of Chabahar port is set to be inaugurated by Iranian president and Indian authorities on Sunday. About two and a half years ago, Afghanistan, India and Iran signed a trilateral agreement based on…
Deputy Chief Executive Officer Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq visited Tehran where he praised the fighters, including Afghans for their victories in Syria’s war. Mohaqiq thanked the fighters, including Afghans, for their victories in the Syrian war, while addressing a…
Iran has deported at least 1,000 Afghan refugee children into western Herat and southwestern Nimroz provinces in the past two months, local officials said Monday. The children were deported through the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat…
More than 300 people were killed and over 2,500 injured in a powerful earthquake that hit the Iran-Iraq border region late on Sunday. The earthquake was measured 7.3 magnitudeon Richter scale. Iranian media emphasised that the quake mostly…
Afghan children, supported by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), are fighting against Syrian government forces, a global rights group says. In a report issued on Sunday, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said its research was based on…
Iranian officials have said Afghan traders can get a 25 percent discount on investment at Chabahar port besides availing land and other facilities. Afghan traders could export their fruits to other countries from the seaport in southeastern…
President Ashraf Ghani, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart on Saturday, said Kabul and Tehran needed a joint discussion on eliminating terrorist groups, which he called common threat. At the head of a high-level delegation, President Ghani…
KABUL minister on Wednesday offered 500 medical educational scholarships to Afghan students, saying his country was ready to equip some hospitals in capital Kabul. A statement from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) office to Pajhwok Afghan News said the Iranian…
KABUL. President Rouhani has voiced concern at the Afghan government’s plans to build more dams on the country’s rivers for agriculture development and electricity production. Rouhani, during an international conference last week in Tehran, the capital of Iran, said: “Dams’…
Political experts view last week’s terrorist attacks in Iran as a drama staged by Tehran to increase meddling in other countries’ affairs on the pretext of chasing Daesh and other terrorist networks. Seventeen people were killed and around…
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani was re-elected on Saturday in the country’s presidential election, with support from reformists. Iran’s interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, on Saturday announced the results of the elections among four candidates for the presidency. Of…
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said on Monday preliminary works to use the Chabahar port in Iran by Afghan traders had been completed but still some works remained. The CEO, while presiding over a meeting of the…
KABUL of targeting ‘militant safe havens’ inside the country if Islamabad did not confront militants who carry out cross-border attacks. The warning comes after 10 Iranian border guards were killed by militants last month. Iran had accused Jaish-al-Adl, a militant…
KABUL is ready to cooperate with Iran in economic, trade, counter-narcotics and border issues with a clear roadmap. A statement from the Presidential Palace said President Ghani met Iran’s Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif and the high level delegation…
“Iran considers non-Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) and cards issued to Afghan refugees and students living there as invalid.” This was told to CEO Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday by a number of Afghan refugees’ representatives, a statement from…
KABUL on Sunday, says a media report Bahram Ghasemi, spokesman for the foreign ministry in Tehran, said Zarif would be visiting the neighbouring country in response to an official invitation from Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani Zarif would hold talks with…
Iran forcibly expelled more than 100,000 Afghans into western Herat province last solar year, local officials said on Sunday. Ahmad Javid Naadem, Herat’s refugees and repatriation director, told Pajhwok Afghan News in an interview that Iran started…
A ceremony was held in Mashhad city of Iran to honour and pay tribute to two senior Afghan commanders killed in Syria, a report said on Friday. The slain commanders were among the founding members of the Fatemiyoun…
The Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran has announced launching Pashtu faculty, a move welcomed by the University of Kabul on Friday. A statement issued by the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran said a delegation of the Kabul University’s…
KABUL is a frontline state fighting the war against terrorism and Tehran is ready for every kind of cooperation with Kabul in this regard. This was stated by Iran foreign minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif during a meeting with President Ashraf…
Ten illegal Afghan migrants have been killed and 11 others wounded in a road crash in neighbouring Iran, a media report said on Friday. The deadly accident occurred on Thursday morning on the Saravan-Khash road in southern Sistan-Balochistan…
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) on Saturday condemned Iran’s for showing some caged Afghan with drugs. “We sadly received a report saying Iranian police confined a number of Afghans to a cage with drugs and alcoholic…
Heads of Iranian and Afghan customs offices have reached a preliminary agreement on the creation of a transit-oriented green customs path, a media report said on Tuesday. The agreement was reached during a meeting in Tehran between Deputy…
A first-ever joint meeting among governors of border provinces of Afghanistan and Iran commenced on Monday in Mashhad city of the neighbouring country on strengthening regional ties, an official said on Monday. Jilani Farhad, the western…
