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KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): The security situation in southern Kandahar province is improved ahead of transition to Afghan forces next summer, the governor said on Wednesday.

KABUL and China on Saturday, an official said. The accord was inked between Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul and Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Xu Feihing, a

KABUL): The security switch from foreign troops to the Afghan forces had a negative impact on foreign investment in 2011, when cash flows into the

BAMYAN (PAN Department in central Bamyan province, an official said on Wednesday. The facility would enable the department to identify bacteria and other viruses in

MEHTARLAM (PAN): Only $6 million of this year’s $16.4 million development budget approved for eastern Laghman province has so far been utilised, a senior official

SHARNA/ASADABAD (PAN): Food aid was distributed to hundreds of poor families in Paktika and Kunar province on Monday, officials said. Each needy family received 90

MEHTARLAM (PAN): Cookies and cooking oil donated to students by the governments of Japan and the United States are selling in markets of eastern Laghman

KABUL, the President’s Office said on Sunday. The EU special representative for Afghanistan, Vygaudas Usackas, who met President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in

KABUL planned to include programmes of Global Rights International Organization in curriculum for public universities, officials said on Saturday. Global Rights is a human rights

MAIDAN CITY (PAN): As many as 225 displaced families were provided aid for winter in central Maidan Wardak province, the governor’s office said on Saturday.

KABUL (UNAMA) head, Staffan de Mistura, said that his two-year mission was difficult, but interesting. De Mistura said during a farewell call on the President

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai, promising a stepped-up campaign against corruption, on Sunday urged foreigners to stop doling out contracts to relatives of senior Afghan government