TALOQAN (PAN): Policemen shot dead three alleged drug smugglers in northeastern Takhar province on the border with Tajikistan, an official said on Wednesday. The incident

KABUL, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Wednesday inked a contract with private companies for 32 irrigation networks costing $214 million, officials said. The World Bank-funded

JALALABAD (PAN): A group of insurgents stormed a terminal near a NATO base in the border town of Torkham in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday

KABUL’s Finance Commission on Wednesday said 39 percent of next year’s government-controlled development budget was discretionary, with 64 percent of general funds set aside for

JALALABAD (PAN base in the border town of Torkham in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday morning, officials said. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, told

KABUL (FFEFA) chief Nader Naderi on Tuesday said the watchdog would appoint 10,000 observers for the April presidential and provincial council elections across the country.

JALALABAD (PAN): An official of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) on Tuesday complained provincial councils were not performing their job up to the

LASHKARGAH (PAN after 2014, when most foreign troops are scheduled to leave. Mohammad Naeem told reporters in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, that Afghans forces were

QALAT (PAN) soldiers were killed in a plane crash in southern Zabul province on Tuesday, officials said. The NATO-led force said the cause of the

HERAT CITY (PAN):  A woman was axed to death by her husband in an attack driven by domestic violence in the Aab Kamari district of

MAZAR-I-SHARIF/ HERAT CITY (PAN): Two exhibitions showcasing hundreds a wide variety handicrafts and artefacts — began simultaneously in Balkh and Herat provinces on Tuesday, officials

KABUL — or the upper house of parliament — on Tuesday suggested President Hamid Karzai should be allowed to take a decision of his choice