KABUL): The European Union (EU) on Wednesday called on Afghan presidential candidates for the April 5 elections to put human rights on top of their

LASHKARGAH (PAN): The southern Helmand has around 16 different mines of precious and semi-precious stones but growing lawlessness has provided a renewed impetus to its

GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Two children were died in an explosion in the Ander district of the southern Ghazni province, while three rebels were killed following

 KABUL troops’ facility on the Qasaba Road near the Kabul International Airport on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports about casualties, officials said.  The

KABUL figures, have been arrested in a plot to attack the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Defence and the Kabul Airport, the spy service said

KABUL): Lashing out at the United States, President Hamid Karzai has accused Washington of making threats in the dispute over an agreement. In an interview

KABUL): Two schools — one in western Herat province and another in northern Balkh province — have won the International School Award instituted by the

KABUL institutes through last year’s entrance examination, the minister said on Tuesday. Testifying before the Meshrano Jirga or upper house of parliament, Higher Education Minister

KABUL Minister Ghulam Farooq Wardak on Tuesday said 65,000 religious scholars had been appointed as schoolteachers under pressure from members of both houses of parliament.

KABUL and girls, holding banners in their hands, on Tuesday staged a rally in the capital Kabul, asking the judicial authorities to investigate cases of

KABUL (PAN):  After passing four long years, as many as $11 million loan paid to Afghan Investment Company (AIC) by four banks— with guarantors Mahmud

KABUL and may even send its military trainers to the newly opened Afghan National Army Officers Academy in Kabul, a leading Indian newspaper said on