Ashraf Ghani
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First female nominee for Supreme Court rejected by Afghan Parliament
World | Jul 09, 2015, 10:05 AM ISTKabul: 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, 02:06 PM ISTIslamabad: 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, 02:04 PM ISTKochi: 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, 02:37 PM ISTIslamabad: 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 | Apr 29, 2015, 06:44 PM ISTNew 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
National | Apr 29, 2015, 02:25 PM ISTNew 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 | Apr 29, 2015, 08:19 AM ISTNew 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
National | Apr 29, 2015, 06:58 AM ISTNew 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
National | Apr 28, 2015, 10:02 PM ISTNew 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
National | Apr 28, 2015, 04:07 PM ISTNew 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 | Apr 28, 2015, 01:09 PM ISTNew 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
National | Apr 28, 2015, 11:26 AM ISTNew 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 | Apr 22, 2015, 08:16 PM ISTMumbai: 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 | Apr 22, 2015, 05:46 PM ISTNew 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 | Apr 15, 2015, 06:24 PM ISTNew 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 | Mar 26, 2015, 11:02 PM ISTWashington: 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 | Mar 26, 2015, 08:22 AM ISTWashington: 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 | Mar 24, 2015, 12:42 PM ISTWashington: 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 | Mar 23, 2015, 10:57 AM ISTWashington: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 | Mar 21, 2015, 06:35 AM ISTWashington: 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