Some analysts say the government has unnecessarily blocked roads leading to the Presidential Palace fearing protests by presidential candidates but others believe the government did so considering the country’s critical situation. The unity government’s five-year term expired on…
Civil society activists and residents of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday urged the unity government not to allow its internal differences to impede the peace process. Holding a gathering in Jalalabad, the provincial capital, the activists and residents…
KABUL. The Presidential Palace in a statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said the Taliban announced their offensive at a time when the Afghan government had accelerated its efforts for peace to end the ‘imposed’ war on the Afghans. “Taliban…
KABUL Baradar in Qatar. Some reports and rumors earlier circulated on social media about a meeting between President Ashraf Ghani’s chief of staff Salam Rahimi and Mullah Baradar, head of the Taliban’s Qatar office, in Doha. Presidential spokesman Haroon Chakhansori…
The government leaders condemned the attack on a ceremony celebrating Farmers Day in southern Helmand province, saying enemies of Afghans trying to conceal their defeat in the battlefield by carrying out such actions. Four people including economy director…
KABUL and Afghan politicians who met in Moscow and agreed to continue talks, the Afghan government on Thursday said the gathering in Russia was a political summit and lacked executive outcome. The two-day talks chaired by Former President Hamid Karzai…
KABUL in establishing peace, a statement from the MoFA said on Saturday. The Russia summit on Afghan reconciliation process kicked off on Friday in Moscow in which delegations from HPC, representing the Afghan government, the Taliban, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and…
KABUL as the move would undermine the principle that Afghans should determine their future themselves. Recently there had been media reports that the US government may consider the proposal from infamous Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the now 18-year-old…
KABUL polls which according to expert would make the situation dangerous for the candidates who have vote bank among masses, Pajhwok Afghan News has learnt. According to the Independent Election commission (IEC election in the country and election campaign is…
The UN Secretary General António Guterres on Thursday pushed for a dialogue between the Afghan Government and the Taliban, which he said is essential to bring peace in the country. “We know that the way for peace is…
KABUL to agree on a truce during Eid-ul-Adha holidays. Mohammad Karim Khalili, HPC head, Qeyamuddin Kashaf, AUC head and Shafiqa Habibi, head of Afghan Women’s Association, on Saturday addressed a joint press conference in Kabul. All the three representing their…
KABUL or lower house elections, saying the government respected electoral bodies’ decisions. The IECC on Saturday removed 35 possible candidates from the final list and said the removed candidates were not eligible to stand in the Wolesi Jirga elections. Mohibullah,…
Political parties and movements on Friday set the government a two-week deadline to implement electoral reforms and guarantee transparency in the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections. The ultimatum was issued during a gathering of political parties’ leaders…
KABUL) on Wednesday said it had started preparing budget plan for the next year’s polls. IEC chief Abdul Baday Sayyad told a press conference here that the next presidential election would be held on April 20, 2019. Sayyad said all…
KABUL activists. Leaders of the Grand National Coalition of Afghanistan, whose birth was announced in the presence of government officials and politicians, said it had been cobble to rein in chaos in the country and nominate candidate upcoming presidential polls…
The Presidential Palace said on Saturday that the crackdown on powerful individuals would continue as per people’s complaints. Presidential spokesman Mohammad Haroon Chakhansori told media-persons in Kabul that a number of powerful individuals and illegal commanders had been…
The Presidential Palace said on Saturday that the crackdown on powerful individuals would continue as per people’s complaints. Presidential spokesman Mohammad Haroon Chakhansori told media-persons in Kabul that a number of powerful individuals and illegal commanders had been…
KABUL remained sidelined and admitted the government did not discharge its responsibility towards cultural development. Introducing Hasina Safi as acting information and culture minister at a special ceremony here, Danish said the Ministry of Information and Culture had an important…
KABUL launched a string of deadly attacks in several provinces. Last week, President Ashraf Ghani declared a unilateral truce with the Taliban from the 27th of Ramadan till the fifth of Eidul Fitr. Soon afterwards, the rebels also announced a…
KABUL. A statement from Presidential Palace said the Ulema termed peace in Afghanistan a “Divine Order” and explained the importance of peace in light and spirit of religious teachings. The statement added the government of Afghanistan endorses “the ulema’s stance,…
KABUL, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) has devised a two-month strategy for arranging animal feed, but says such arrangement needs exclusive budget. A meeting at the Presidential Palace on Thursday evening discussed the situation of livestock with Kuchi tribe and common…
Around 1,200 youth have been appointed to different government departments in southwestern Nimroz province over the last two years. However, some youth continue migrating to Iran and other countries due to joblessness. More than 4,000 youth -- or…
KABUL’s Peoples National Consensus Organisation (APNCO) on Thursday offered to mediate in a political crisis pitting President Ghani against ousted Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor. The group, stressing resolution to the tension between the Presidential Palace and the Jamiat-i-Islami party,…
KABUL organizations and election watchdogs on Monday expressed their concern over what they called “unknown fate” of future elections and said transparent polls remained the only choice with the government to get the country out of existing crisis. They told…
