KABUL, 8 March 2016 – The United Nations in Afghanistan celebrates today International Women’s Day, which is being marked globally under the theme of “Planet 50-50 by 2030” to challenge entrenched patterns of discrimination and inequality and to celebrate the…
March 2, 2016 (Kabul, Afghanistan) – Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading communications company, opened its newly redesigned customer service and sales center in Kabul’s main business hub in the city’s 10th district. For reading the full story, please click here
KABUL to take urgent steps for his safe recovery. Syed Fazlullah Wahidi was kidnapped by unidentified individuals in Islamabad, where had gone along with his family to get visas for the United Kingdom. Unidentified men in two vehicles kidnapped Wahidi…
In January 2016, three months after the adoption of the EU Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society in Afghanistan, the European Union launched five new projects to strengthen the role of civil society in governance and accountability. The new projects…
KABUL troops had moved back from their new installations in the Angoor Ada area, which straddles both sides of the boundary between the two countries. Recently, some residents of southeastern Paktika province claimed that Pakistani forces had occupied farmland and…
Kabul, 25th January 2016 – Afghanistan (MoHE) of Afghanistan and the German funded programme Academic Mining Education in Afghanistan (AMEA). With the signing of the MoU in the presence of the German Ambassador, H.E. Markus Potzel, and the initiated trilateral…
KABUL was observed in Kabul on Sunday, with participants of a gathering calling the anniversary “a black day” in Afghanistan history and demanded compensation for war victims and punishment for the two communist factions’ leaders. Sixth of Jadi month of…
KABUL Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Monday said 2,250 acres of land for industrial parks across the country has been encroached by powerful people. Addressing a meeting of the High Commission of Entrepreneurs, AISA director Mohammad Qurban Haqjo said industrial…
Industrialists on Thursday called the commencement of the TAPI gas pipeline project “a big achievement” and asked the government to extend the gas to residential homes and industrial parks. Leaders from Afghanistan converged in the remote Karakum desert…
KABUL -- was a success. The ministerial meeting in Islamabad concluded on Wednesday. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and the UAE are part of the initiative launched in 2011. The 14…
KABUL) chief, hours after he passed critical remarks against the head of state. “I regret,” spymaster Rahmatullah Nabil wrote a day earlier on in his Facebook page about the President Ashraf Ghani’s trip to Pakistan and the warm welcome he…
Senior officials from Afghanistan, Pajhwok Afghan News has learnt on good authority. The agreement came at a meeting among representatives from Afghan, Pakistani and American governments on the sidelines of the 5th Heart of Asia Conference in Islamabad,…
KABUL, provide new funds to boost supply and promote cross-border trade in energy. The grants include $750 million from ADB’s Special Funds resources, and up to $450 million from the Afghanistan Infrastructure Trust Fund, which will be administered by the…
Malaysia-based Afghan university students complain they have been rusticated due to no-payment of their fees by the government. In a letter, 200 students of the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) said they were awarded #scholarships by the…
KABUL through 2016. At the end of a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from NATO states in Brussels, the alliance secretary-general praised Afghan troops’ continued steady progress. However, capability gaps and challenges for the nascent security personnel persisted, Jens Stoltenberg…
The High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption (HOOAC) on Sunday announced lists of assets of President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah. Assets of the president and First Lady Rula Ghani were put at 320 million…
The spy service on Thursday said its operatives had detained four members of Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group in Paghman district of central Kabul province. In a statement, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) identified…
KABUL supported the initiative to create an international coalition against terrorism. The Senate chairman was speaking at a plenary meeting at the Russian Federation Council upper house of parliament. "We welcome and support the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin…
KABUL) to shift former Kabul Bank chief executive Khalilullah Ferozi from jail to hospital. Commander Mir Saib Gul provided the information to the Wolesi Jirga’s Complaints Commission after being summoned to explain his position on the release of Ferozi from…
KABUL’s financial and budgetary commission on Monday said charging the 10 percent tax on cell phone users was illegal after a presidential decree imposing the levy had been rejected by the lower house. The lower house earlier this month rejected…
Minister of Finance Eklil Hakimi on Wednesday met a visiting Swedish delegation led by Minister for International Development Cooperation Isbellah on government's reform agenda and development assistance from Stockholm. In the meeting that took place at the Presidential…
KABUL activist. But Khalil Pilot, the husband of Daikundi Governor Masooma Muradi, sternly rejected he was involved in the beating, saying Muradi’s bodyguards beat them because they wanted to attack her. During Saturday’s session of the Wolesi Jirga, a lawmaker…
November 3, 2015, UNESCO Office in Afghanistan announced the launch of a nation-wide photo competition “Show us the Afghanistan you’re proud of” in order to portray the rich cultural and natural heritage of Afghanistan. The competition is open to all…
KABUL councils on village and district levels have been given top priority in their next 100-day action plan. Mahbubullah Mohibi, Kabul deputy governor, told journalists that dealing with natural disasters, supporting farmers, building capacity of local departments and increasing coordination…
