Chief of defense conference held in Kabul

The Chief of Defense (CHOD) conference held on Monday in Kabul, aiming to discuss and bargain on counter-terrorism and narcotics in the region.

The army chiefs of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan attended the summit and talked over several regional issues, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.

“Our demand from other partners in the conference was to take a joint position against Pakistan that supports terrorism and jointly press Islamabad to stop supporting and sponsoring terrorism,” said Dawalat Waziri, spokesman of MoD.

The Afghan government is said to believe that extremism and supporting terrorism become a part of Islamabad’s foreign policy that cannot be changed.

“It would be impossible to have an honest partner in fight against terrorism as long as Pakistan uses this policy,” Tamana Farmarz, head of the foreign ministry’s strategic studies said.

Afghan politicians have always expected Pakistan to change its strategy in fight against terrorism.

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Afghan, Turkmen Presidents Inaugurate Railway Line

President Ashraf Ghani and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow on Monday afternoon officially inaugurated the Imamnazar (Turkmenistan) and Aqina (Afghanistan) Railway Line between the two nations.

Together the two presidents cut a ribbon across the new railway line close to the border of the two countries to mark the start of the new transit line.

Speaking after the ribbon-cutting ceremony Ghani thanked Turkmenistan for its support and said with this new railway line gas and fuel will be transported to Afghanistan. As such, the price of fuel and gas will drop, he said.

He also said this was one of Amanullah Khan’s dreams that had come true – the dream of Afghanistan being connected by railway.

Ghani said the next step after Aqena is the connection of Mazar and then Herat.

Ghani said Afghanistan does not have problems with any of its neighbors but that the country wants development not extremism.

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Turkmenistan completes a section of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway

A section of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway construction which falls within the Turkmen soil has been completed, it has been reported.

According to a statement released by the government of Turkmenistan, the construction of the railway has been completed up to the border of Afghanistan.

The statement further added that the length of the Atamyrat-Imamnazar-Akina section is 88 kilometers.

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Afghanistan-Turkmenistan: Shifted From Friendly to Brotherly Ties

Afghanistan and Turkmenistan have been good neighbors and friend for couple of years. Turkmenistan is an old friend of Afghanistan and we have historic and cultural ties between us. Turkmenistan is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and Afghanistan can draw in enormous riches from this potential neighbor. Earlier two premiers, affirmed to increase the volume of bilateral trade between the two neighbors to double of current stand point which is $1 billion.

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