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82km road asphalted in Kabul last year: Municipality

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul City Municipality has implemented 200 development projects, concreted and asphalted 82 kilometers of road, planted hundreds of sapling and transferred around 500,000 tonnes of garbage outside the city last year, an official said on Sunday.  Infrastructure development…

Kabul Municipality executes 150 uplift schemes this year

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul Municipality has planned to execute 150 developmental projects in the central capital city at the cost of over 5.2 billion afs this year, an official said on Monday. Kabul Municipality Representative Niamatullah Barakzai told Pajhwok Afghan News…

Kabul municipality’s cleanliness workers distributed cash aid

KABUL (Pajhwok): On the account of Eid-UL-Fitr the Gulbahar Welfare Foundation has started the distributed 10,000 afs each or food items of the same value to 3,800 personnel of Municipality Cleanliness Department. Mohammad Umar Zwak, the foundation spokesperson, said total…

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Municipality: Arbitrary excavations no longer allowed

KABUL (Pajhwok): The mayor blamed on Sunday some networks for damaging most of urban facilities in the capital city, saying the municipality would no longer allow arbitrary and substandard excavations. In a statement on its Twitter handle, the Kabul Municipality…

Kabul municipality resumes work on construction projects

KABUL (Pajhowk): Kabul Municipality resumes work on some development projects which were halted due to cold weather, according to a statement on Friday. The source said that earlier the municipality officials directed relevant officials to halt asphalt and concrete work…

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‘144 unknown bodies buried in past 3 months’

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul Municipality has buried 144bodies of unknown individuals including some of the addicts recovered during the cleanliness operation of Pul-i-Sokhta in capital Kabul, according to a statement on Sunday. The statement said, 33 of the bodies were buried…

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Kabul municipality raising 400,000 seedlings, flowers

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Kabul municipality has been raising 400,000 tree seedlings and seasonal flowers to be planted in spring. The municipality in a statement said it was raising 200,000 seedlings of trees and a similar number of seasonal flowers in…

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Kabul Municipality starts coal sales at reasonable rate

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul Municipality has started the distribution of coal at a reasonable price in capital Kabul, the municipality said in a statement on Friday. On its twitter handle the municipality said that coal would be transferred from its reserves…

Food for work programme launched in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): Following assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP), the Kabul municipality has launched a three-month food for work programme. According to the Kabul municipality, each person is given 50 kilograms of flour, five liters of cooking oil and…

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Municipality moves to give Kabul a new makeover

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Kabul Municipality is taking new initiatives to spruce up city squares and give the central capital a new makeover. Niamatullah Barakzai, head of the media office at the municipality, told Pajhwok Afghan News the cultural department was…

Covid crisis: Kabul Municipality suspends bus service

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Kabul Municipality on Thursday announced suspending its bus service due to the worsening COVID-19 crisis in the country. On its Facebook page, the municipality wrote the bus service would be suspended with effect from Saturday, June 18.…

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Kabul Municipality hires women for cleanliness

KABUL for cleaning roads and streets of the capital -- an unprecedented step in the past 15 years that residents hailed as exemplary. The women expressed satisfaction with the work they do, saying people also welcomed them. Gul Begum, 53,…

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IWA survey finds Kabul City municipality ‘a failure’

KABUL (IWA) finds that the Kabul City municipality has failed in serving the masses who regard the department ‘a failure.’ IWA head Syed Akram Afzali told reporters here that through a 10 percent increase had come in the number of…

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Kabul municipality signs mega contracts with Arab firm

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Kabul municipality on Monday signed four contracts for several major projects including a high-speed transport system and ground water management with an Arab company. Acting mayor Prof. Abdullah Habibzai signed the contracts with Dr. Ramzan Harb, deputy…

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Municipality fails to destroy illegal marketplaces

KABUL (Pajhwok): The municipality in Kabul on Sunday launched a campaign to destroy illegally constructed buildings in the central capital, but faced with a strong reaction from a market owner. President Ashraf Ghani recently ordered the Kabul municipality to close…

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Kabul municipality fails to collect 2b afs in unpaid taxes

KABUL (Pajhwok): The acting mayor on Saturday said the Kabul municipality was yet to collect two billions afghanis in tax on services from some people and government departments over the past one decade. Speaking at a meeting to assess the…