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U.S. Pulls Advisers from Afghan Media Center

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U.S. has withdrawn its media advisers from Afghanistan’s Media center. In an unexpected move U.S embassy in Kabul announced in their website about the withdrawal of it s personnel from the media centre. America was funding and supporting Afgan’s Government Media and information centre (GMIC) for past four years. Embassy said that “the United States is reassessing and reviewing its relationship with the Afghan Government Media Information Center, and thought it appropriate to withdraw U.S. pers...
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