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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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been increasing efforts to attract regional and trans—regional
investment into Afghanistan that provides a reliable alternative.to
the dominant narrative of extremism and offers job opportunities to
its population, by initiating events like the Delhi Investment
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It also helped initiate a dialogue on Afghanistan through different
platforms like the Afghanistan-India—US trilateral and the
Afghanistan—India+Iran trilateral platforms that seek to bring
together international partners with disparate worldviews to follow
the common goal of securing peace and prosperity in Afghanistan.
India also expressed its assistance to international cooperation on
Afghanistan at the UN.and at various international conferences that
are focused on the future of Afghanistan, including the seminal "
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people of Afghanistan also realize this fact and they wish that
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China—Pak Economic Corridor: Benefits for Afghanistan — Daily
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China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPECI is a comprehensive development
programme which would play a crucial role in improving the economic
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