KABUL for strengthening peace and stability in the country, officials said on Tuesday. A contract to the effect was inked among Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, the peace council secretary Mohammad Masoum Stanikzai and the Dutch Ambassador to Afghanistan,…
JALALABAD (PAN province were given similar assistance, officials said. In Nangarhar, the aid was distributed with financial support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the provincial refugee department to families returning from Pakistan to three districts.…
KABUL): Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal on Wednesday signed an agreement with the the United States Agency for International Development on using 50 percent of American aid within two years by the Afghan government, an official said. Until the next solar…
QALAT (PAN projects, officials said. During a visit to Zabul, Crocker met Governor Ashraf Nasiri and other officials on the current security situation and reconstruction schemes, the governor's spokesman, Sharif Nasiri, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Governor Nasiri briefed the visiting…
KABUL): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday pledged $75.4 million for upgrading a hydropower unit in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province, officials said. A contract to the effect was signed between Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal and ADB's…
TRINIKOT/SHABARGHAN (PAN): Food and other essential items were provided to 1,100 families in Uruzgan and Jawzjan provinces, officials said on Friday. A thousand war-affected families were given food items, sewing machines and warm clothing by the Uruzgan Department of Women's…
KABUL. Karzai and Koichiro Gemba discussed preparations for the major meeting on Afghanistan, a statement from the Presidential Palace said. They hoped the event would prove beneficial for Afghanistan. The Tokyo conference, due in July this year, is expected to…
KABUL in Tokyo were expected to pledge assistance for fundamental projects and identify development priorities. Addressing a joint news conference with his Japanese counterpart, Koichiro Gemba, Rassoul said they had discussed issues concerning bilateral relations, security transition and the conference…
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. Toryalai Weesa said after a meeting with the UN deputy representative for Afghanistan, would be…
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 spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Pajhwok Afghan News. Janan Musazai said the…
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 country fell by $36 million, an official said on Saturday. Director at the Afghanistan Investment…
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 water with the help of the system, a PRT official Dr. Zaki told Pajhwok Afghan…
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 said on Monday. Governor Muhammad Iqbal Azizi, speaking to a parliamentary delegation, said the uplift…
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 kilograms of eatables, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) head for Kunar, Muhammad Nadir Jabbarkhel,…
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 province, officials said on Saturday. The food items were provided by the Japanese government to…
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 on Sunday, said the key points of the pact would include respect for human…
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 capacity-building organization working in partnership with local activities. In Afghanistan it started its operation in…
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. The aid was provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday,…
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 Hamid Karzai on Tuesday evening: "I should say that my two-year mission in Afghanistan was…
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 officials. "One effective way of preventing corruption in Afghanistan is for our foreign friends to…
KABUL's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) head on Saturday said people's access to justice has not improved and about two million children are forced into hard labour. Seema Samar, who released a two-year report of the commission at a press…
KABUL): Political analysts say the Afghan government should ensure constructive utilisation of aid pledges held out at the second Bonn Conference that concluded yesterday in Germany, with delegates promising to keep supporting the war-hit nation beyond 2014. Attended by delegates…
KABUL and the international community on the success of the Bonn Conference. "I congratulate President Karzai and all the delegates at the Bonn Conference for selflessly choosing to build a sustained future of peace, stability and prosperity for Afghanistan," Gen.…
KABUL, President Hamid Karzai's office said on Tuesday. Alain Juppe expressed France's readiness for the pact at a meeting with Karzai in Bonn, where they participated in a day-long conference on Afghanistan's future. The key conference, attended by representatives from…
