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PC Candidates Officially Start Canvassing Voters
March 05, 2014
KABUL - Provincial council (PC) candidates on Tuesday officially entered a month-long electioneering in the lead-up to the April elections ...
Germany Spent $6m on Afghan Vocational Edu
March 05, 2014
KABUL - Marking the launch of a two-day national conference on vocational education in Kabul, German Ambassador to Afghanistan Martin Jager said on Tuesday his country had invested ...
War Not Waged with Afghan Interests in Mind: Karzai
March 04, 2014
KABUL - Deeply troubled by all the casualties he has seen, President Hamid Karzai has said he feels betrayed by an insufficient US focus on targeting Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan ...
US Should Ignore Karzai Remarks: Abdullah
March 04, 2014
KABUL - Reacting to President Hamid Karzai’s recent remarks on the war in Afghanistan, front-line presidential runner Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Monday urged the international ...
Dasu Dam: Kabul to Approach WB
March 04, 2014
>KABUL - Afghanistan has decided on approaching the World Bank (WB) regarding Kabul’s reservations over the construction of Dasu Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan’s Kohistan region ...
Khalili Call for Enhancing Afghan-Kazakh Relations
March 04, 2014
KABUL - Second Vice President, Mohammad Karim Khalili, in a meeting with Kazakhistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, Omairitai Baitimov, on Sunday called for enhancing bilateral relations ...
ECC Summons 90 PCs Candidates over Documents
March 03, 2014
KABUL - At least 90 candidates for Provincial Councils PCs were summoned to the Electoral Complaint Commission (ECC) on Sunday due to false educational documents or degrees ...
Neglect by Election Related Agencies will Make Afghanistan Instable: Abdullah
March 03, 2014
KABUL - Any kinds of neglect by election related agencies in staging the presidential elections in April will lead Afghanistan towards instability, presidential candidate Abdullah ...
12 Taliban Inmates Freed on Forged Letter
March 03, 2014
KANDAHAR CITY - A dozen high-profile Taliban inmates have mistakenly been freed from the central jail in southern Kandahar province with falsified documents, officials said on ...
NATO Supplies via Torkham Resume
March 03, 2014
JALALABAD - After a three-month stalemate, Pakistan has reopened the Peshawar-Torkham highway to NATO supplies into Afghanistan, officials said on ...
Zero Option: Dobbins Warns of Widespread Chaos
March 02, 2014
WASHINGTON - US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan James Dobbins warned on Friday of widespread violence and rapid political disintegration in Afghanistan if the US ...
No Changes to Constitution for Peace Talks: Spanta
March 02, 2014
KABUL - Responding to fears that a reconciliation deal with the Taliban could possibly mean concessions on some of the progress in women's rights that has been made over the past decade ...
Congressional Panel Probes Extortion 17 Tragedy in Afghanistan
March 02, 2014
WASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives committee heard testimony regarding a military special operations mission in 2011, code named "Extortion 17" by the personnel ...
UK Troops Mentally Resilient Despite Iraq, Afghan Conflicts
March 02, 2014
LONDON - Intervention strategies have helped mitigate the psychological impact on British soldiers of more than 10 years of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new study suggests ...
NATO to Plan for All Options, Including No Troops
March 01, 2014
BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers and counterparts from ISAF partner nations on Thursday discussed with Afghan defence minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi the progress in Afghanistan mission ...
Pakistan to Continue Support for Stable, Peaceful Afghanistan
March 01, 2014
ISLAMABAD - President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, on Friday said that Pakistan would continue to support all efforts aimed at a peaceful, stable and united Afghanistan, said an official press ...
Presidential Palace Accused of Election Meddling
March 01, 2014
KABUL - Some high-ranking government officials are interfering in the election process under the pretext of uniting the candidates or making coalitions, Presidential Candidate Abdullah ...
Corruption Main Hurdle to Investment: ACCI
March 01, 2014
KABUL - The Afghanistan Chamber of Conference and Industry (ACCI) on Thursday said administrative corruption has been the main hurdle to investment in Afghanistan ...
Obama Warns Karzai of Full Troop Withdrawal
February 27, 2014
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact ...
Mourning over Kunar Fatalities Urged
February 27, 2014
KABUL - A number of civil society activists and journalists on Wednesday asked the government to announce nationwide mourning over the Kunar incident, in which 21 Afghan National Army (ANA) ...
Total NATO Pullout from Afghanistan Not a Preferred Option: Rasmussen
February 27, 2014
KABUL - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday that total NATO troops pullout from Afghanistan is not a preferred option. However, Rasmussen warned that there will be ...
No Al-Qaeda Hideouts in Afghanistan: NATO Official
February 27, 2014
BRUSSELS - Cleared of insurgent hideouts, Afghanistan no longer needs a coalition of 50 countries to fight against Al Qaeda, a senior NATO official said on Wednesday.Speaking at an off-camera ...
Central Asians Meet to Boost Trade Ties
February 26, 2014
MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Dozens of businessmen from neighboring Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan on Tuesday joined their Afghan colleagues in the capital of northern Balkh province at a day-long ...
Obama, Karzai Discuss Stalled Afghanistan Security Agreement
February 26, 2014
WASHINGTON - The White House says President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Tuesday about a stalled security agreement that would allow the U.S. to keep troops ...
Don’t Pin High Hopes on Karzai: Congressman
February 26, 2014
WASHINGTON - The people of Afghanistan have been amazing allies of the United States, but the same could not be said about President Hamid Karzai, a top American lawmaker said on ...
Pakistan Role in Afghan Peace Vital: Rasmussen
February 26, 2014
BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday said Pakistan had an important role to play in the Afghanistan peace process, a part that should not be ...
Foreign Spies Planned Kunar Attack: Mohammadi
February 25, 2014
KABUL - Sunday’s deadly attack on the Afghan National Army (ANA) organized by the Taliban, their foreign accomplices and the intelligence network of a certain country, the Ministry ...
Germany, France Support Afghan Women
February 25, 2014
KABUL - Germany and France on Sunday during a meeting here in Kabul elected the year 2014 Afghan woman and said they would provide long-lasting support for the Afghan ...
MoFA Optimistic About the BSA Signing
February 25, 2014
KABUL - Negotiations on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA)-which allows the US forces to stay in Afghanistan post-2014- move forward between the Afghan government and the U.S. ...
Pakistan, Afghanistan to Double Trade Volume
February 25, 2014
KABUL - At the conclusion of the 9th Joint Economic Commission (JEC) session, Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday decide to double their bilateral trade volume from $2.5 billion to $5 billion ...
Taliban Suspend Prisoner Swap Talks with US
February 24, 2014
KABUL - Taliban said on Sunday announced suspending talks on an exchange of prisoners with the United States, citing the complex political situation in Afghanistan ...
20 ANA Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack in Kunar
February 24, 2014
KABUL - Twenty Afghan soldiers were killed and four others are missing in a Taliban ambush on an army outpost early Sunday in eastern Kunar province, local officials ...
Karzai Calls for Joint Fight against Terror
February 24, 2014
KABUL - President Hamid Karzai has once again called for a joint fight by Afghanistan and Pakistan against the common enemy of terrorism and extremism, his office said on ...
China Wants Afghan Crackdown on Xinjiang Militants
February 24, 2014
KABUL - Promising to step up aid to Afghanistan, including training for its security forces, Beijing has asked Kabul to crack down on Islamic militants active in China's volatile Xinjiang ...
China Hopes to See Stable, developing, Amicable Afghanistan: FM
February 23, 2014
KABUL - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Saturday that China hopes to see a united, stable, developing and amicable Afghanistan, adding that this is what China's policy targets ...