KABUL has decreased due to insecurity. Conducted by the Center for the Protection of Afghan Women Journalist (CPAWJ), the survey was presented at an event attended by officials of Independent Afghanistan Human Rights Commission (IAHRC), Ministry of Information and Culture,…
KABUL for the first time, the Presidential Palace said on Monday. A statement from the Presidential Palace said peace and stability would come to Afghanistan through serious combat against criminal economy, boosted through sale, process and smuggling of drugs. The…
Deputy finance minister Khalid Painda on Monday said the private sector would invest $900 million in the energy sector alone through public-private partnership. Painda told a press conference here that the government was planning joint ventures with the…
Iran has deported at least 1,000 Afghan refugee children into western Herat and southwestern Nimroz provinces in the past two months, local officials said Monday. The children were deported through the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat…
KABUL is beneficial for stability of the region. “Opportunities should be effectively availed,” the president was quoted as saying in a statement from the Presidential Palace during a meeting with Germany’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Markus Potzel. Potzel…
KABUL Cabinet has endorsed a draft law exempting periodic and non-periodic print media from paying taxes to the government, an official said on Monday. Habib Zadaran, taxpayers’ in-charge at the Ministry of Finance (MoF), said that their ministry’s proposed law…
Taliban blocked the Maimana-Jawzjan highway for traffic on Monday, leaving many people on both sides of the road, passengers said. The driver of a passenger vehicle, wishing to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News dozens of automobiles were…
At least 18 Daesh or Islamic State militants have been killed in an airstrike and a clash in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. Another 18 gunmen loyal to the group were wounded in the separate air…
Several media outlets, including Pajhwok Afghan News, are giving children the opportunity to take over segments of their programming today (Monday), UNICEF said. Participating TV and radio stations include RTA, TV24, Shamshad, Tolo, BBC and Radio Free Europe. Pajhwok…
British teacher Robert Sampson says if the world reads Pashtu poetry they will understand the Afghans hate war and love peace. The 60-year-old teaches English and science at a university in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
Many children say if they become president, establishing schools and paying more attention to security will be their top priority. More than half of children are not familiar with the celebration of their birthdays, but most of them…
Two women and as many children have been found dead under mysterious circumstances in western Farah province, an official said on Monday. Police spokesman Iqbal Bahir told Pajhwok Afghan News security forces found the bodies during…
Seventy-five insurgents have been killed and 25 others wounded during an operation in the Shindand district of western Herat province, an official claimed on Monday. Jilani Farhad, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the security forces…
Two policemen were slightly wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Marja district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Monday. Police spokesman Abdul Salam Afghan said the explosion took place in front of police headquarters at…
Closed three years ago, a major Pakistan trade route will be reopened next month, says a senior military commander. The Ghulam Khan trade route in North Waziristan Agency was shut in 2014 when a major military offensive…
The US and Pakistan, says a former American diplomat. Ex-assistant secretary of state Robin Raphel lamented that efforts to deal with the Afghan war were more focused on a military solution rather than a diplomatic process. Addressing a…
