KABUL’s budget making has increased from 42 to 49 in terms of scores over the past two years, but people’s participation in the exercise has decreased from 27 to 15 marks. Syed Akram Afzali, Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) head, told…
KABUL on Wednesday approved the national budget for 2018, with an increase of 17 billion afghanis in development funds. The Afghan fiscal year began on December 22. Earlier, Meshrano Jirga -- or upper house of the parliament -- had passed…
KABUL Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) on Thursday expressed concern over reduced budget for the security sector and asked the parliament not to approve the draft budget for 1396 fiscal year. Few days back, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) presented next…
KABUL members said on Wednesday, declining to endorse the accounts. According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), about 287 billion afs has been set aside for general expenses and nearly 178 billion afs for development activities in the budget for…
KABUL or lower house of parliament for approval. Hakimi said more than 287 billion afs had been allocated for general expenditures and nearly 178 billion afs for development activities in the budget for the new fiscal year that starts…
KABUL -- lower house of parliament -- for approval. Afghanistan, which received the proposed budget on November 8, sent it back to the ministry with certain recommendations. Meshrano Jirga members said most of next year’s projects envisaged in the draft…
KABUL groups. Ikram Afzali, IWA chief, told reporters in Kabul budgets prepared in Kabul hardly addressed people’s needs and demands. “Budgets prepared in Kabul lack transparency and can’t be called national budgets,” he elaborated. Afzali said “public should point out…
KABUL on Wednesday deferred approving a presidential decree that declared the Chief Executive Office a budgetary unit to next session due to a lack of quorum. Then presidential contenders Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah signed an agreement in September last…
KABUL for a second time amounted to a betrayal of the nation. Parliamentarians have refused to approve the budget for the current year by raising "baseless objections”, advisor to the finance ministry, Najib Manalai, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Earlier in…
KABUL): Members of Parliament (MPs) on Monday called for summoning several ministers over their failure to spend even 50 percent of their development budget for the last fiscal year. Wolesi Jirga members issued the call when a final report on…
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…
KABUL (MoPH) has been able to utilise 60 percent of its annual development budget during the ongoing fiscal year, emerging as an uplift spending leader, an official said on Monday. SO far 30 percent of the 74 billion afghanis budget…
KABUL or lower house of Parliament, to increase its monitoring of development activities by all ministries for the better use of the development budget. Of the 74 billion afghanis ($1.5 billion) development budget for the current solar year, 35 percent…
