For almost 2,000 years a monastery has perched on a rocky outcrop amid the khaki moonscape of Aynak in Afghanistan. In its heyday a pair of mighty turrets towered over an affluent community of monks who exploited local copper deposits and built beautiful places of worship.
Various parts of the country were rattled by a powerful earthquake late Friday night, a private television channel reported. It was centred at approximately 75 kilometres southeast of Fayzabad, a district in Badakhshan province of northern Afghanistan, according to the United States Geological Survey.
New Delhi: The U.S. Army has shown interest in replicating the low-cost Sulabh public toilet system in Afghanistan. It plans to construct 40 public toilet complexes linked with biogas digester application
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan have signed a framework agreement on moving forward a stalled project to build a gas pipeline from the energy-rich ex-Soviet state to the east, official media said Tuesday.
China is forging ahead with studies of resource reserves and acquisition possibilities in neighbouring countries, in part spurred by repeated failures to gain a say in iron ore pricing negotiations, state media reported.
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's India blockade and an international sanctions regime in Iran may put a spanner in Indian companies' drive to exploit the mineral bonanza in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's geological wealth is not new. But Indian companies extracting minerals face a unique problem: taking the stuff out of the country. Pakistan refuses to let Indian goods travel through its territory.
