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Kabul Police Failed to Foil Attack on Mosque: Danish
November 23, 2016
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani's second VP Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Monday accused the Kabul police headquarters and garrison of negligence after Monday's deadly bombing at a Shia...
Bamyan Women Complain about Lack of Jobs
November 23, 2016
BAMYAN CITY - Women in central Bamyan province say they are interested and have the ability to work, but there are no jobs for them so they use their skills. Though women’s affairs...
Religious Scholars Denounce Attacks on Shia Community
November 23, 2016
KABUL - Religious scholars said on Tuesday that suicide attacks have no legitimacy in Islam and instead tarnishes the image of this sacred religion. Islam has strongly condemned the...
32 People Killed in Attack on Kabul Mosque
November 22, 2016
KABUL - A suicide bomber struck a mosque in Kabul on Monday, killing 32 people, the U.N. office said, the second large-scale attack targeting minority Shiites in Kabul in just over...
Abdullah Expects Wolesi Jirga to Approve Fiscal Budget
November 22, 2016
KABUL - Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah said on Monday at the Council of Ministers Meeting that he expects the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) to approve next year's...
Economists Predict Tough Times as Investments Fall
November 22, 2016
KABUL - Talking on the prospects of Afghanistan's economic development, officials from the Central Statistics Organization (CSO) and Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries...
CEO’s Office Says Talks with ARG Ongoing
November 22, 2016
KABUL - The Chief Executive Office on Monday said talks between their office and the Presidential Palace about appointments in military and non-military sectors, among...
UNHCR Halts Refugee Repatriations for three Months
November 22, 2016
KABUL - The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said Monday that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has suspended the repatriation process of Afghan...
90% of Women in Rural Areas Can’t Read or Write
November 21, 2016
KABUL - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) director and representative in Afghanistan, Patricia McPhillips, on Sunday said 90 percent...
Some Shortlisted Candidates Accused of Fraud in Past Election
November 21, 2016
KABUL - The institutions overseeing the election process said on Sunday that a number of shortlisted candidates for the election commissions were guilty of fraud in the last election...
Senate Demands Date for Parliamentary Polls
November 21, 2016
KABUL - The Meshrano Jirga on Sunday said professional individuals should be appointed as commissioners on the electoral bodies. The upper house asked the government to set a date and take...
NATO Praises Afghan Forces’ Battlefield Gains
November 21, 2016
KABUL - NATO’s assistant secretary general for operations Patrick Turner during a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday praised the Afghan security forces’ gains...
Govt Criticized for its Issues around the Dismissal of Ministers
November 21, 2016
KABUL - The Access to Information Commission on Sunday criticized government and the Supreme Court for what they called the rift between the Presidential Palace and the Wolesi Jirga...
Meshrano Jirga Approves Draft Accord on Chabahar Port
November 21, 2016
KABUL - The Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) on Sunday approved a draft agreement for Chabahar Port – which determines the details of using the port for transit of goods...
MPs Criticize Govt Over Supreme Court Move Following Dismissal of Ministers
November 20, 2016
KABUL - A number of MPs on Saturday criticized government for referring the cases of dismissed ministers to the Supreme Court and warned that they will reject the next fiscal year's budget...
Govt. Set to Announce Election Committee Appointments
November 20, 2016
KABUL - Following the completion of the interviewing process of candidates for electoral bodies, the Afghan government on Saturday said the final list of selected candidates will be...
Study Finds Hindus Have No Place in Afghan Legal System
November 20, 2016
KABUL - A study by the Pursesh Study and Research Organization shows that Hindus living in Afghanistan have been discriminated against and that their rights are not entrenched...
Stoltenberg Has ‘Good Talk’ with Trump on NATO Future
November 20, 2016
WASHINGTON - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday he had had a positive talk with U.S President-elect Donald Trump on the future of the U.S-led alliance, amid concerns in Europe about...
Taliban Closing in on Sayyad District
November 20, 2016
SAR-I-PUL - The Taliban are closing in on the headquarters of Sayyad district in northern Sar-i-Pul province amid an intense fighting with security forces, a public representative...
Norwegian Police Arrest 73 Afghans in Immigration Raid
November 20, 2016
OSLO - In a large-scale action in the past week, Norwegian police arrested 73 Afghan men who were to depart immediately as their asylum applications had been refused, newspaper Aftenposten...
No Approval of Budget if New Ministers Not Named: Qadeer
November 19, 2016
KABUL - The Wolesi Jirga would not endorse the budget if new ministers replacing the sacked cabinet members are not nominated by the government, the first deputy speaker warned on...
Commissioners on Electoral Bodies Chosen
November 19, 2016
KABUL - The Presidential Palace after concluding interviews with shortlisted candidates has selected commissioners on the two electoral bodies, a statement said on Thursday...
No Meddling in Selection Committee’s Work: Govt.
November 19, 2016
KABUL - The national unity government has assured political and jihadi figures it is not interfering unduly in affairs of state institutions, particularly the electoral bodies and the...
Political Rifts will Result in a Crisis: Danish
November 19, 2016
KABUL - Second Vice President, Mohammad Sarwar Danish, said on Friday at an event to mark the 26th death anniversary of Sadiqi Nili, a former Jihadi leader, that the continuation...
Astana Concerned Over Daesh, Moscow Doubts NATO’s Afghan Mission
November 19, 2016
KABUL - Kazakhstan's ambassador to Afghanistan Bitimov Omirtay on Friday raised concerns over what he called growing activities of militants associated with Daesh along the northern...
HIA Deal a Model for Talks with Taliban: Saikal
November 19, 2016
WASHINGTON - A recently signed peace agreement with the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) can serve as a model for the Taliban who are willing to give up violence and embrace peace...
EU Distressed over Afghan Situation, Urges NUG Leaders to Unite
November 17, 2016
KABUL - The European Union's Special Representative for Afghanistan Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin on Wednesday raised deep concerns over the ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan...
We Want Good Ties with Pakistan: Abdullah
November 17, 2016
KABUL - Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday said Afghanistan wanted good and positive ties with Pakistan keeping in view the good neighborhood principle...
Olson Retires; Trump to Decide on Replacement
November 17, 2016
WASHINGTON - America’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Richard Olson retired on Tuesday, leaving a question mark on the future of the position...
Hekmatyar Refuse to Apologize Over War Crime Allegations
November 17, 2016
KABUL - The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has refused to apologize over war crime allegations as efforts are underway to remove his name from UNSC sanctions committee...
Film Dept. Slams Finance Ministry over Undelivered Budget
November 17, 2016
KABUL - The state-run Afghan Film Department on Wednesday blasted the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for failing to pay out the department's budget. The Afghan Film Department officials...
WFP Launches 9-Month Operation to Assist Returnees
November 17, 2016
KABUL - The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a nine-month operation to help Afghanistan deal with the growing number of returnees from Pakistan and internally displaced people...
Impeached Ministers to Stay Until SC Ruling: Cabinet
November 16, 2016
KABUL - The Cabinet on Monday instructed ministers disqualified by the lower house of parliament or Wolesi Jirga to remain in their jobs until a ruling in the matter from the Supreme...
33 Provincial Councils Elect Administrative Board Members
November 16, 2016
KABUL - Provincial councils in 33 provinces on Tuesday elected their administrative boards for a third year of the current government term. The provincial council elections were...
WJ Dismisses another Minister
November 16, 2016
KABUL - Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of parliament dismissed another minister on Tuesday over failure in spending development budget, bringing the number of disqualified ministers...