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State Pao: Afghan Evening News Clips 15 August 2015

Central Intelligence Agency · 2015-08-15 · 49 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.

  • p. 3 …owned" reconciliation process and would continue to cooperate closely with all parties until peace and reconciliation…
  • p. 7 …statement, the Chinese side is ready to cooperate closely with all parties, and will continue to…
  • p. 30 …The Afghan government has accused Pakistan of providing safe havens for terrorists and not cooperating with…
  • p. 31 …V ' of South Asian Association for-Regional Cooperation (SAARC) under- l9 - ' .- - . . ' Football Tournament in Nepal, an…
  • p. 37 …of understanding (MOUs) for strengthening cooperation in the fields of rural development, education and.standardisation between…
  • p. 39 …India also expressed its assistance to international cooperation on Afghanistan at the UN.and at various…
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