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  First female nominee for Supreme Court rejected by Afghan Parliament

  World | July 09, 2015 10:05 IST

  Kabul: The first-ever female nominee for the Supreme Court in Afghanistan has failed to garner enough votes of approval from the parliament.Anisa Rasoli received 88 votes on Wednesday, nine short of the 97 needed for

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  Pakistan, Afghanistan sign intelligence-sharing deal

  World | May 19, 2015 14:06 IST

  Islamabad: In a first of its kind deal, Pakistan's spy agency ISI has entered into an agreement with its Afghan counterpart over intelligence sharing and coordinated operations against Taliban militants.  The accord between Pakistan's Inter-Services

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  India gives hands to a physically-impaired

  India | May 18, 2015 14:04 IST

  Kochi: When Dr Ashraf ghani, president of Afghanistan, recently visited India, he wouldn't have known that the “great friend” (Read: India) will carry out the relationship so well. That India's friendship won't only be diplomatic

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  Zardari visits Afghanistan to boost bilateral ties

  World | May 07, 2015 14:37 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan's former president Asif Ali Zardari today left for Afghanistan with a delegation to help improve ties between the two countries.During his two-day visit, he is expected to meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, chief

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  TAPI pipeline will take five years: Afghanistan president

  World | April 29, 2015 18:44 IST

  New Delhi: The construction of the $10-billion four-nation TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline project will be completed in the next five years, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday."TAPI will take five years. I invite the

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  India visit has led to forward outlook in close ties: Afghan President

  Politics | April 29, 2015 14:25 IST

  New Delhi: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said that India and Afghanistan are bound by a "million ties across the millennia or several millennia" and that his visit has resulted in a "forward outlook"

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  Ties with India foundational, reassures Afghan Prez

  India | April 29, 2015 8:19 IST

  New Delhi: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today reassured India that Afghanistan's relationship with it was “foundational” in nature and his government will continue to have close partnership with New Delhi.There was some uneasiness in India

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  Afghanistan will not be a battlefield for proxy war: President Ghani

  Politics | April 29, 2015 6:58 IST

  New Delhi: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday called for a united regional and global front to fight the "new ecology of terror", very brutal and "morphing very rapidly" that Afghanistan is experiencing and also

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  Will do everything possible to help Nepal: PM Narendra Modi

  Politics | April 28, 2015 22:02 IST

  New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reiterated India's commitment to do everything possible to help quake-hit Nepal and said that it was not alone at this moment of tragedy.Speaking at a joint press briefing

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  India shares Afghanistan's pain over terror: PM Modi

  Politics | April 28, 2015 16:07 IST

  New Delhi: India shares Afghanistan's "pain over persisting terrorism and extremist violence", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.The terrorist violence has destroyed lives and derailed progress, Modi said, adding India and Afghanistan have a

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  Ghani, Modi hold delegation level talks

  India | April 28, 2015 13:09 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met here on Tuesday for delegation level talks.The talks are being held at Hyderabad House.President Ghani earlier met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who

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  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets Sushma Swaraj, to hold talks with PM Modi

  Politics | April 28, 2015 11:26 IST

  New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday called on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani here, ahead of delegation level talks between Ghani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Ghani arrived in India on Monday night on

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  BCCI non-committal on Afghanistan's home ground request

  Cricket | April 22, 2015 20:16 IST

  Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) game development manager Ratnakar Shetty on Wednesday refused to comment on media reports which said that the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) wants to host its

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  Afghanistan Cricket Board likely to seek 'home' ground in India

  Cricket | April 22, 2015 17:46 IST

  New Delhi: India may soon get to host the home matches of Afghanistan cricket team in the way UAE hosts Pakistan home matches.Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will visit India next week and according to some

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  Afghan president arriving on first India visit

  India | April 15, 2015 18:24 IST

  New Delhi: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is arriving in New Delhi April-end, his first to India since assuming office last year. He will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Ghani will also give a talk

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  Afghan President Ghani to visit India in April

  World | March 26, 2015 23:02 IST

  Washington: Afghanistan's new President Ashraf Ghani would travel to India next month, a top Afghan leader said today, noting that the maiden trip would provide an opportunity to address India's concerns regarding the country's recent

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  Afghanistan will be self-reliant within this decade: President Ghani

  World | March 26, 2015 8:22 IST

  Washington: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani thanked Congress on Wednesday for billions of American tax dollars and vowed his war-wracked country will be self-reliant within this decade."We're not going to be the lazy Uncle Joe," he

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  Obama, Afghan leader to finalize plan for US troop pullout

  World | March 24, 2015 12:42 IST

  Washington: President Barack Obama welcomes Afghanistan's new president to the White House on Tuesday with a fraught question staring them in the face: Will the U.S. slow its departure from Afghanistan -- and for how

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  US pullout from Afghanistan hinged to developing forces

  World | March 23, 2015 10:57 IST

  Washington:The pace of U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will headline Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's visit to Washington, yet America's exit from the war remains tightly hinged to the abilities of the Afghan forces that face

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  US leaves open chance of Afghan troop presence beyond 2016

  World | March 21, 2015 6:35 IST

  Washington: The Obama administration is suggesting it could reconsider its plan to remove nearly all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016 as part of an effort to ensure that the Afghans can