Participants of a Martyrs Week ceremony booed former president and jihadi leader Sibghatullah Mujaddedi off the stage in Kabul on Tuesday. President Hamid Karzai, Dr. Abdullah, Ashraf Ghani, cabinet members, parliamentarians, jihadi leaders and Ahmad Shah Massoud’s supporters…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL. On the final day of the four-day gathering of tribal leaders and politicians divided into 50 committees, featuring 2,500 delegates, officials read out the declaration. Each committee submitted its list of proposed revisions and clarifications to the draft agreement.…
KABUL on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States entered its final day on Sunday, when almost all 50 committee heads recommended the pact should be signed withing six weeks. Najiba Hussaini, the committee number 3 chairperson, called…
KABUL beyond 2014. With 20 articles of the deal debated on Friday, the 50 jirga committees are to thrash out the remaining six today. The article on legal jurisdiction over foreign soldiers -- being an emotive issue for the Afghans…
KABUL and United States should be signed before the presidential vote. As the 50 jirga committees embarked on their proceedings, Mujaddedi told journalists that President Hamid Karzai did not reserve the right to postpone inking of the security deal. There…
KABUL on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States. Beginning amid extraordinary security arrangements at 10.30am, the four-day consultative assembly will debate the nitty-gritty of the accord shaping a future US military presence in the country. Around 2,500…
KABUL on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the US got under way in Kabul on Thursday (today) morning. Participants of the event will debate the nitty-gritty of the accord on a future US military presence in the country and…
KABUL from Thursday (tomorrow) to Sunday to debate the nitty-gritty of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the US and advise the government on whether or not the deal should be signed, an official said on Wednesday. Around 2,500…
KABUL (PAN): At least 10 people were killed and several others wounded when powerful explosion rocked the Polytechnic area of the central capital Kabul on Saturday afternoon, officials said, fearing heavy casualties. The incident took place at 3.15pm close to…
KABUL on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States, scheduled to begin in November, an official said on Monday. Deputy Minister of Border & Tribal Affairs told Pajhwok Afghan News the tribal assembly had originally been planned for…
KABUL groups on Thursday said every attempt at delaying or not holding next year’s elections would be illegal and catastrophic. Civil Society and Human Rights Network (CSHRN) chief executive Wadood Pidram told reporters in Kabul the government wanted the consultative…
KABUL on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Kabul and Washington, the Presidential Palace said on Wednesday. Headed by Deputy Interior Minister Lt Gen Mohammad Ayub Salangi, the committee had been tasked with ensuring security for the consultative forum, Karzai’s…
KABUL’s Inter- Services Intelligence for the assassination plot. The intelligence chief was badly wounded in a suicide attack on Thursday afternoon at his guest house in the Taimany locality of Kabul, after a man posing as a Taliban messenger approached…
KABUL, while others lawmakers rejected the comments. Afghan officials should not plead with Pakistan to maintain peace and stability in Afghanistan because this was not the way to promote peace in the county, said senator from Farah, Bilqees Roshan. Another…
TOKYO (PAN slow-paced economy. Top officials from some 70 countries are gathering in Tokyo to chalk out development budget for Afghanistan, which is likely to face critical financial crunch after NATO forces leave in 2014.United Nations secretary-general f Ban Ki-moon…
KABUL would be considered in signing the proposed strategic agreement with the United States. At separate meetings with delegations from different provinces at the Presidential Palace, Karzai promised he would seek more suggestions from the people on the accord, if…
KABUL's committee No 39 to avoid pimp taunts raises questions about the merits of delegates' recommendations. Since the digit 39 is generally associated with pimps, most Afghans avoid accepting a mobile number, car number plate and other numbers containing the…
KABUL's soil, urging them to continue cooperating with efforts at bringing peace and stability to the war-hit country. In remarks to the concluding session of the Loya Jirga on a strategic agreement with the US, Karzai said the participants had…
KABUL on the strategic cooperation pact with the US, the interior minister said on Saturday. The four-day assembly concluded with the release of a 76-article declaration, recommending the creation of American bases in the country for a decade. Endorsing the…
KABUL on the strategic cooperation pact with the US concluded on Saturday with the release of a 76-article declaration, recommending the creation of American bases in the country for a decade. Endorsing the agreement with the US was necessary for…
KABUL chairman announced on Saturday. On the fourth and concluding day of thetribal gathering, Sibghatullah Mujaddadi said the participants honestly and freely shared their views and recommendations over the past three days and an outline was read out to a…
KABUL could be extended, an official indicated on Friday. Forty committees have been set up to deliberate on political, economic and military aspects of the strategic cooperation deal with the United States and setting up a mechanism for dialogue with…
KABUL's participants to know details of the pact, Kabul-based political analysts said on Friday. As it entered a third day, the traditional tribal assembly started a debate on a mechanism for peace negotiations with Afghan insurgents. A spokeswoman for the…
