HERAT CITT (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, two murderers of Ali Sina, an eight-year-old son of a businessman, were hanged early Saturday morning at the central jail in western Herat province. Satisfied with the punishment, parents of the…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Thursday laid the foundation stone of a township project in the Qasaba locality near the Kabul airport. Consisting of 111 blocks and 3333 flats, the residential scheme is estimated to cost $179 million being provided…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Friday telephoned former Pakistani prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, regretting the kidnapping of his son at an election rally in Multan. Karzai hoped that Ali Haider Gilani, a election candidate of the Pakistan People's Party…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Thursday conferred the Medal of Courage on Mohammad Qasim, a border policeman who was killed in last week’s clash with Pakistani forces. Karzai announced the posthumous award for Qasim at a meeting with the victim’s…
KABUL's rights in the country over the past decade. A statement from the Presidential Palace said Karzai told women's rights activists, who called on him at his office, efforts were being made to preserve the progress his government had achieved…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai has returned to Kabul from a visit to three European nations, signing long-term cooperation agreements with Finland and Denmark, his office said on Friday. On the last leg of his trip, the president held wide-ranging talks…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai has discussed a number of issues of bilateral interest with his Estonian counterpart Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the Presidential Palace in Kabul said on Wednesday. The Afghan-led reconciliation process, the ongoing security transition, next year’s presidential elections…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai has written a letter to his US counterpart Barack Obama, seeking America's help in retaking nearly a dozen border security posts that were captured by Pakistani forces in eastern Nangarhar province a decade ago, an official…
KABUL): With long-term cooperation agreements high on his agenda, President Hamid Karzai on Sunday left for a visit to three European nations, his office said. On the first leg of the trip, the president would reach Helsinki and sign a…
KABUL as an important regional platform of dialogue and interaction for consolidating security, confidence and result-oriented cooperation. “We reiterate our adherence to the principles and commitments … including the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, and the central and impartial…
WASHINGTON (PAN): Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday said the United States needed to stay engaged with President Hamid Karzai to responsibly transition out from Afghanistan. Responding to questions posed by top US senators at a Congressional hearing, Hagel said…
KABUL): Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Nečas on Saturday met with President Hamid Karzai and discussed with him bilateral relations and other issues of mutual interest, the Karzai office said. At the meeting at the Presidential Palace, Karzai urged the…
WASHINGTON(PAN office, the progress made in reconciliation and security transition, the White House said. This was the first phone call between the two leaders after the recent Kabul visits of the Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the Defense Secretary,…
KABUL, but would fight against foreign fighters with full force. During a meeting with relatives of those killed and wounded in Wednesday’s suicide attack in western Farah province, the president said: “We want peace at any cost, because it is…
KABUL. Before leaving Doha, Karzai met Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani on issues of bilateral interest, the Presidential Palace in Kabul said. Bilateral cooperation in various fields, including peace and Qatari investment in Afghanistan, figured prominently at the…
KABUL, his office said on Sunday. In his interaction with Qatari traders, Karzai made a pitch for investments by businessmen from the oil-rich Gulf state, a statement from the Presidential Palace said. At the meeting chaired by Sheikh Ali bin…
KABUL): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday visited the under construction building of the Ministry of Defence, the Presidential Palace said. Karzai was accompanied by Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, advisor to president on national security, Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta,…
KABUL on Monday urged President Hamid Karzai not to sign a bilateral security agreement with the US if he really respected national sovereignty. If the pact was signed, foreign troops could stay put and enjoy legal protections in Afghanistan, Wahid…
KABUL (PAN): The US military ceded full control of its main detention facility to Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence in central Parwan province on Monday, ending a bitter row between the allies. At a long-awaited transition ceremony, the top US and…
KABUL and cooperate with his administration in reopening closed schools. While marking the new academic year by ringing a school bell in Kabul, the president highlighted the importance of education, calling it the only way of making Afghanistan self-sufficient. “I…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Thursday hailed American special forces’ willingness to withdraw from central Maidan Wardak province. The US move toward troop pullout from the strategic province comes weeks after a presidential decree and National Security Council (NSC) decision…
KABUL. In his bi-weekly radio address, he encouraged students to make capital use of every single moment for education, respect their parents, follow good manners and free themselves, their families and country from foreign dependence. Calling the Taliban his brothers,…
KABUL, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan may sign a trilateral framework agreement on railroad following the talks in Ashgabat on Wednesday, a news report said. Hamid Karzai, Emomali Rahmon and Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov will discuss the tripartite project at their meeting in Tajikistan’s…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday flew to Ashgabat to celebrate the Nawroz festival the capital of Turkmenistan, his office said. Accompanied by high-ranking officials, the president would meet his counterparts from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to discuss enhanced regional cooperation.…
