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Senior Officials Set to Go on Trial: AGO
November 16, 2016
KABUL - The Anti-Corruption Judicial Center (ACJC) will hear the cases of senior officials who are accused of corruption – without any political interference, the Attorney General's...
Daikundi Relatively Secure But Undeveloped: Residents
November 16, 2016
NILLI - Daikundi might be relatively secure but for residents it is undeveloped and many areas have little or no access to electricity, healthcare or other basic services...
900,000 Refugees Return From Pakistan, Iran this Year Alone
November 16, 2016
KABUL - Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR) said on Tuesday that the number of Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan and Iran since the start of the year is estimated...
WJ Disqualifies another Minister, Ghani Reinstates
November 15, 2016
KABUL - Afghan Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of parliament disqualified another minister on Monday on the ground of failure in spending development budget, bringing the number of...
Ghani Begins Interviewing Electoral Bodies’ Nominees
November 15, 2016
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Monday started interviewing the selected nominees for the position of commissioners on the two electoral bodies, a statement said on Monday...
In October, over 3,000 Afghans Killed and Wounded
November 15, 2016
KABUL - As many as 3,285 people have been killed and wounded in 193 attacks across Afghanistan last month, showing a 35 percent increase in assaults and 83 percent hike in causalities...
Ghani Wants Haibatullah’s Name Added to UN Sanctions’ List
November 15, 2016
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Monday asked the United Nations Security Council to include names of all terrorists, including the current Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah, in...
Parallel Anti-Graft Bodies Need to be Dissolved: IWA
November 15, 2016
KABUL - The Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) on Monday stressed dissolution of parallel anti-corruption institutes and said institutional structure of anti-corruption efforts...
Taliban Asked to Respect Journalists as a Pre-Condition for Peace
November 15, 2016
KABUL - Reporters Without Borders on Monday urged the Afghan government to delay peace negotiations with the Taliban unless the group ends their attacks against journalists in...
Unmoved by Ghani’s Request, WJ Unseats 2 More Ministers
November 14, 2016
KABUL - The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) on Sunday voted out two more ministers for their poor performance in terms of development budget spending, but Finance Minister Eklil Ahmad Hakimi...
Islamabad Set to Host Conference on Afghan Peace Process
November 14, 2016
KABUL - A conference on the Afghan peace process will be held in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad by a noted international organisation, a reliable source said on Sunday...
WFP Calls for Timely Funds to Help Afghan Returnees
November 14, 2016
KABUL - The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a nine-month operation to provide emergency food and cash to growing numbers of returnees from Pakistan and people displaced...
Parliament’s Move to Dismiss Ministers Draws Mixed Reaction
November 14, 2016
KABUL - The move by MPs over the past two days to dismiss ministers has been met with mixed reaction in the country. On Sunday, MPs gave a vote of no confidence to two ministers...
Taliban Not Ready for Peace Talks with Kabul: Report
November 14, 2016
PESHAWAR - The Afghan Taliban say they are not yet ready for peace negotiations with the Ashraf Ghani administration, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Sunday. The Express Tribune quoted...
WJ Dismisses Ministers over Failure to Spend Development Budgets
November 13, 2016
KABUL - The Afghan parliament sacked the minister of foreign affairs and two of his cabinet colleagues on Saturday citing poor performance, in a sweeping move that underlined the...
New Anti-Graft Court Hears First Cases in Kabul
November 13, 2016
KABUL - New anti-corruption court heard its first cases on Saturday, a small step forward in President Ashraf Ghani's efforts to combat graft at the highest levels of government...
Nearly 400 Children Still Die Daily from Measles
November 13, 2016
UNITED NATIONS - A report on measles by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and partners said that despite a 79 percent worldwide decrease...
Govt. Accused of Influencing Selection Committee
November 13, 2016
KABUL - Institutions overseeing election processes on Saturday accused government of interfering in the work of the election selection committee and said the committee has...
Parallel Anti-Corruption Institutions Complicate Corruption Fight
November 13, 2016
KABUL - The High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption (HOOC) said on Saturday that parallel anti-corruption institutions have created challenges in terms of fighting corruption...
4 Killed in Blast in US Bagram Airbase
November 13, 2016
KABUL - Four people were killed and 14 others injured in a blast inside Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan's eastern province of Parwan early on Saturday, sources said. On November 12, an...
Congress Urged to Approve $11.6 for ISIS Fight, Afghanistan
November 12, 2016
KABUL - The Pentagon has asked US lawmaker that it needed additional $11.6 billion to pay for the campaign against Islamic State (IS) militants and the war in Afghanistan...
Death Anniversary of Zabul Seven Marked in Kabul
November 12, 2016
KABUL - A group of people gathered in Kabul on Friday to mark the first death anniversary of Shukria Tabasum, a nine-year-old girl, who was beheaded along with six other bus passengers...
Afghanistan May Have to Accommodate 1.5 Million Refugees in 2016
November 12, 2016
KABUL - Afghanistan will reportedly take in more than 1.5 million Afghan refugees by the end of the year, challenging the government at a time when Kabul is already struggling against...
October Deadliest Month in Past two Years: Study
November 12, 2016
KABUL - A study carried out by TOLOnews shows that October was the deadliest month in the past two years. According to figures presented by security departments, more than 6,000...
Withdraw Troops, Let Afghans Decide Their Future: Hikmatyar to Trump
November 12, 2016
KABUL - The Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader, Gulbadin Hikmatyar, has asked US President-elect Donald Trump to pull out its troops from Afghanistan as the decade long war...
Taliban Attack on German Consulate Kills 6
November 12, 2016
KABUL - An attack on a German consulate building in northern Afghanistan late Thursday killed six people and wounded more than 100, mostly civilians, though Germany's foreign minister...
Trump Elected 45th President of the United States
November 10, 2016
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Selection Panel Submits Final List to President
November 10, 2016
KABUL - The selection committee on Wednesday handed over a final list of shortlisted commissioners-designate on the two electoral bodies to the Presidential Palace. A statement from the...
Ghani Gives Away Apartment Keys to Sharbat Gula
November 10, 2016
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has given away the keys of a residential apartment to Nat Geo's famed 'Afghan Girl' Sharbat Gula and promised taking care of her family’s heath and...
500,000 People Displaced Due to Recent Violence: UN
November 10, 2016
UNITED NATION - A new UN report indicates that nearly half a million Afghans have been displaced in the past ten months due to the recent surge in violence. The report illustrates that...
Taliban Call on Trump to Withdraw U.S. Troops from Afghanistan
November 10, 2016
KABUL - The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday called on US president-elect Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. Our message is that the Americans...
Americans Head to Polls to Decide Between Clinton and Trump
November 09, 2016
WASHINGTON - After nearly two years of bitterness and rancor, America begins electing its 45th president Tuesday, making Hillary Clinton the nation's first female commander in chief or...
Afghanistan to Hold First Public Corruption Trial on Saturday
November 09, 2016
KABUL - The first open trial of the perpetrators involved in major corruption cases will be organized in capital Kabul on coming Saturday. The Government Media and Information Center...
Next Year’s Draft Budget Lands in Senate
November 09, 2016
KABUL - The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Tuesday tabled next year’s budget draft with a total outlay of 466 billion afghanis at the Meshrano Jirga or upper house of parliament...
Improper Use of Budget is Incompetency, Sin: Ghani
November 09, 2016
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has said some ministries lack the capacity to properly use their budgets and ministers are answerable to the parliament for non-implementation...