KABUL Bank has helped the Kabul Municipality develop a more efficient construction permit system that has significantly cut red tape and processing times, boosting private investment in the city’s construction sector. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the…
Most of natural streams across southern Paktia province have become silted or gone dry, causing a shortage of irrigation water. Many of the water channels in Gardez, the provincial capital, Zurmat, Ahmad Aba, Syed Karam and Mirzaki districts…
KABUL on Monday received awards in the country’s first-ever Environmental Short Films Contest, organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the National Environmental Protection Agency and Saba TV. Over the past four months, videographers submitted more than 50 films…
Female civil society activists on Saturday carried out a cleanliness campaign in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province. The activists collected garbage from streets of the city during the campaign initiated by “Kor Khazina Adabi Bahir”…
Some officials on Saturday ticked off residents for evincing little interest in participating in municipality-arranged drives to spruce up the nation’s capital. The most polluted capital in the world are the main reasons behind growing pollution. Nisar Ahmad…
KABUL Protection Agency on Saturday said the Afghan government has been unable to reclaim its usurped land from land mafia in different parts of the country. Shahzada Mustafa Zahir, the agency director general, told a ceremony marking Earth Day here…
The spring plantation drive has been started under the slogan “every Bamyan resident should plant two saplings” in the central province of Bamyan. As many as 27,000 saplings will be planted as part of the tree plantation…
The governor on Wednesday stoutly supported new programmes of the municipality for cleanliness, beautification and environment production in Maimana, the capital of northern Faryab province. Governor Syed Anwar Sadat told Pajhwok Afghan News he had instructed other officials…
President Ashraf Ghani on Monday formally launched “city cleaning programme” from the BiBi Mehro area in capital Kabul, the presidential palace said. A statement from the palace said public works minister and Kabul mayor accompanied the president at…
A two-week cleanliness campaign was launched in Maimana city, the capital of northwestern Faryab province, on Wednesday, an official said. The campaign, led by Maimana municipality, is being attended by around 200 municipality workers, local residents and officials.…
A Qatari charity organization on Monday released 27 rare and endangered birds into the wild in western Farah province to increase their populations. The birds released included falcons, Shaheen falcons, hawks and eagles by Al-Gharafa charity organisation’s…
An independent research organisation on Tuesday questioned claims of progress in supplying safe drinking water to Afghan households over the past decade and a half. The Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)suggested a careful evaluation of overoptimistic…
The citizens of Kabul are concerned about growing air pollution in the capital city and doctors have warned if the air pollution is not dealt with in a timely manner, people could be infected with different diseases including…
The National Environment Protection Agency on Tuesday said the increasing use of coal for heating purposes caused air pollution in the western province of Herat. “Using coal is not a proper way of heating because it has…
KABUL (HIA) on Thursday launched a cleanliness campaign in Kabul, saying it wanted to be part of social services. As the drive got under way, HIA Chairman Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal told reporters hundreds of youth from his party were taking…
KABUL the most vulnerable country to the global warming. Abdul Wali Mudaqiq, NEPA deputy head, told a press conference here that they had finalised a policy and strategy on environment protection so that Afghanistan could play its role on domestic…
KABUL leaders due to meet in Paris for the UN climate change summit to take practical steps towards countering the issue. The summit starts Monday in the French capital with the aim of reaching a landmark global deal on limiting…
KABUL. At Monday’s workshop, acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai said: “The environment is an inheritance from our ancestors and we must make it better for future generations.” The Ministry of Defence hosted the three-day event, which Combined Security Transition…
KABUL has taken some necessary measures to protect the ozone layer, an official said on Wednesday. The ozone layer or ozone shield refers to a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation. It contains…
A campaign “colours, beauty and change” has been launched to paint front walls of homes built on mounds to beautify the central capital Kabul, an official said on Saturday. Deputy director of services at the Kabul Municipality, Khogman…
KABUL Protection Department in northeastern Badakhshan province was inaugurated on Monday, when construction work a road kicked off in Nimroz province, officials said. The three-storey building in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan, had been designed in Kabul in line with…
After kicking off the environmental protection campaign, the government of eastern Nangarhar province urged people to should participate in the drive to ensure protection of environment in Jalalabad and other parts of the province. Salim Khan Kanduzi expressed…
KABUL Earth Day, Kabul Municipality on Thursday set to remove over 7,000 tonnes of waste out of the capital city. The massive cleanliness drive started today morning with more than 3,500 municipality workers was taking part in the campaign. Nesar…
President Ashraf Ghani, who is in Iran on a two-day state visit, on Sunday urged Tehran to share its experience with Kabul in area of environmental protection. The president arrived in Iran at the head of a high-level…
