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    Governance

    Australia promises continued assistance

    KABUL (PAN): Deputy Foreign Minister Ershad Ahmadi held wide-ranging talks with Australia’s Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Varghese in Kabul on Tuesday.



    Security and Crime

    9 rebels, ALP member dead in violence

    KABUL PAN): Nine Taliban and an Afghan Local Police (ALP) member were killed during separate incidents of violence in different parts of the country, officials said on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    Karzai all praise for security forces’ response

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Monday denounced a militant assault on the Kabul airport, praising the security forces’ courage and quick response.



    Security and Crime

    Man guns down sister in Kunduz

    KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A man gunned down his sister on suspicion of having an illicit relationship with a boy in northeastern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday.



    Governance

    Taliban signal readiness for talks with HPC

    KABUL (PAN): In a change of heart, the Afghan Taliban have signaled their readiness for negotiations with the High Peace Council (HPC), a media report said on Sunday.



    Health

    Check on use of fertilizer, plastic bags urged

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday renewed his call on the people to use fabric bags instead of plastic ones and keep planting trees to check increasing environmental pollution  and subsequent diseases.



    Security and Crime

    53 fighters eliminated, 8 detained: MoI

    KABUL (PAN): More than 53 Taliban were killed and eight others detained as a result of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Friday.



    Security and Crime

    Suicide bomber kills 7 Georgian soldiers

    LASHKARGAH (PAN): The Georgian defence minister arrived in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after seven soldiers from the former Soviet republic were killed in a suicide attack on their base in the restive southern province of Helmand.



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    Britain to resume prisoner transfers this month

    KABUL (PAN): The British Ministry of Defence on Thursday announced the transfer of suspects captured by its forces to the Afghan justice system would resume later this month.