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FM Atmar headed to Uzbekistan to discuss enhancing bilateral ties

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Haneef Atmar headed for a two-day visit to Uzbekistan to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation.
Atmar left Kabul for Tashkent on Friday morning, the MoFA said in a tweet.
د بهرنیو چارو سرپرست وزیر محمد حنیف اتمر، او ورسره لوړ پوړی دولتي پلاوی نن سهار د دوه اړخیزو اړیکو او همکارییو د پراختیا په موخه ازبیکستان هیواد ته ورسیده. په دې سفر کې به د بهرنیو چارو وزیر له خپل سیال، د ازبکستان له صدراعظم او د هغه له معاون سره لیدنې ولري. https://t.co/yNK3drsTkx pic.twitter.com/dF8b3ZHM4z
— MFA Afghanistan 🇦🇫 (@mfa_afghanistan) August 28, 2020
The Acting Foreign Minister is expected to meet his Uzbek counterpart, Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the country.
In a statement on Thursday, the MoFA said that Atmar’s visit is scheduled upon a formal invitation by Uzbekistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Omarakov Sardar Oktomovich.
The statement said that the Afghan and Uzbek officials would discuss a wide range of issues including, “transportation, transit, investment, trade, energy and the signing of a ten-year electricity transmission contract.”
According to the statement, Chief of Staff Presidential Ghani’s office Mohammad Shakir Kargar, Acting Minister of Transport Mohammad Yamma Shams, Acting Deputy Minister for Industry and Commerce Abdul Karim Malikyar, Chief Executive of Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat Ahmad Dawood Noorzai, and Abdul Bari Sediqi, head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority will accompany Atmar on this trip.
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Khalilzad: Another US citizen to be released from Afghan custody soon

Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan, has announced the release of another American citizen in the country.
Khalilzad said in a post on his X account that, according to information from the Islamic Emirate’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Faye Dai Hall, an American citizen who has been in custody in Afghanistan, will be released soon.
Earlier, George Glezmann, an American citizen whom the Islamic Emirate had held for over two years, was also released.
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About $80 billion worth of US military equipment abandoned in Afghanistan: Vance

US Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that Joe Biden administration left about $80 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, which was a “catastrophic error.”
Vance made the remarks during a visit to a military base in Greenland.
He also said the Biden administration’s “catastrophic error” led to the deaths of 13 US soldiers in an attack during the evacuation at Kabul airport in August 2021.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump also criticized the abandonment of military equipment in Afghanistan and called for its return.
The Islamic Emirate, however, has said that the weapons left by the US in Afghanistan belong to the Afghans and will not be returned.
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The Supreme Court announced on Saturday that based on the ruling of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, 2,463 prisoners have been pardoned and released on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
The court said in a statement that the prison terms of another 3,152 prisoners have been reduced.
Eid in Afghanistan will be celebrated on Sunday or Monday, depending on the moon sighting.
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