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On Wednesday 07 November 2018, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Secretariat of the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA) based in Kabul, co-organized the first meeting of Friends of RECCA Group with the participation…

The assurance came in a meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Dr. Nasir Ahmad Andisha and Australian Assistant Secretary at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Mr. James Hall and Australian Ambassador to Kabul Ms. Nicole Gordon-Smith on…

KABUL – Afghanistan carried out a record number of business reforms in the past year, earning the country a spot in this year’s top 10 global improvers , says the World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform report, released today.…

On Saturday 20thOctober, around 4 million Afghans, both men and women, casted their votes in around 21,000 polling stations in 4,900 polling centres despite serious security threats by Taliban and other terrorist groups.  Afghanistan held its seventeenth Parliamentary Elections in…

Asia Society honored the Afghan Girls Robotic Team, as 2018 Game Changer of the Year at the fifth annual Asia Game Changer Awards. In a dazzling ceremony held Tuesday night in lower Manhattan, the Asia Society awarded the Afghan Girls Robotics…

The International Olympic Committee has elected nine new members including 24-year-old Samira Asghari, an Afghanistan women’s national basketball team player. Afghanistan was ineligible to compete at the 2000 Sydney Games because its National Olympic Committee did not follow the Olympic Charter,…

Afghan and Australian Defence Ministers met in Kabul. Honorable Christopher Pyne, Minister for Defence of the Commonwealth of Australia called on HE Bahrami, Minister of Defence of Afghanistan in Kabul, on 27 September 2018.  Minister Bahrami expressed his gratitude to…

Linking the Heart of Asia and the Indo-Pacific for greater economic cooperation Report from the outcomes of the Mumbai Session The concept of the Indo-Pacific and the Heart of Asia platform are interlinked even if this linkage is not apparent…

Kabul – Afghanistan is expected to send its first cargo to Europe through Lapis Lazuli Route in the next five weeks. The transport and transit Lapis Lazuli Route begins in Aqina and Turghundi ports in the Afghan provinces of Faryab and…

Melbourne – The Governor of Victoria, Hon. Linda Dessau AC welcomed Ambassador Wahidullah Waissi in Melbourne during his first state visit of Victoria. The meeting took place at the Victorian State Government House in the morning of 22 August 2018. Both sides discussed…