Afghanistan

Monitoring Desk JALALABAD: A number of Afghan traders have shut the Torkham gate against exports after their spare parts loaded vehicles remained parked in western Herat province for months, causing them ‘huge’ losses. The traders said the Ministry of Finance had stopped hundreds of their trucks full of spare parts in Herat province, inflicting huge […]

Monitoring Desk BAMYAN CITY: Hajigak, Qonaq and Shato passes, connecting central Bamyan province with Kabul and southwestern Daikundi, have been closed as a result of heavy snowfall, an official said on Thursday. The Hajigak tunnel is a link between Bamyan and capital Kabul and Maidan Wardak, with Qonaq connecting the province with Daikundi. Shato links […]

Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Khalilzad met with the First Vice President of Afghanistan Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum in Kabul. The Office of the First Vice President in a statement said the meeting was held in the residence of the First Vice President where the two sides held talks […]