KABUL. The SIGAR released its quarterly report on the status of operation Resolute Support, the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan. The watchdog noted the Pentagon, for the first time ever, was refusing to share how much Afghan territory was currently under…
KABUL, a US government watchdog alleged on Tuesday. Data on the number of districts and people living in territory under insurgent or government control, or areas contested by both, was kept from the public, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan…
Some widows of Afghan security personnel killed in action were forced to offer sexual favours to officials before they could receive pension benefits, says a US watchdog report. US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR) John Sopko raised…
The US has failed to offer any justification for hundreds of billions of dollars spent on propping up the Afghan government, as the Taliban control large swaths of the country, where the value of opium has dramatically increased. A federal…
KABUL, a media report said on Wednesday. According to the US government watchdog the overall assessment showed security forces have been struggling against insurgency and the government was losing control over more territory. The 69-page quarterly report released by SIGAR noted…
The National Procurement Commission (NPC has approved eight contracts at a meeting president over by President Ashraf Ghani, the Presidential Palace said Sunday. A statement from the palace to Pajhwok Afghan News said the contracts were signed on…
KABUL (SIGAR) on Sunday said it would make efforts at trying in court those involved in embezzling aid, whether living in Afghanistan or the US. According to a statement from Chief Executive Officer (CEO) received by Pajhwok Afghan News, CEO…
KABUL (SIGAR) has warned current plans to reduce the number of American troops in the war-torn country will leave Afghan forces with “capability gaps” in a number of areas. The US government watchdog in its quarterly report on Friday said…
KABUL John Sopko, highlighting widespread corruption in Afghanistan, says the war-torn country has the best justice system that money can buy. In an interview published in a British newspaper on Tuesday, he was asked to comment on how dealing with…
John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan, explains in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News how Afghans could have more benefitted from about $110 billion American money spent since 2001 to rebuild Afghanistan. The amount is bigger than…
KABUL (SIGAR) John F. Sopko acknowledges billions of dollars in US aid for rebuilding the war-torn country have been wasted and stolen. Sworn in as SIGAR on July 2, 2012, he was appointed to the post by President Barack Obama.…
KABUL’s most expensive station of this kind. But the Department of Defence has been unable to explain why the cost is so high, John Sopko, head of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said on Monday. In a…
The Ministry of Public Health (SIGAR) about the existence of 21 fake health clinics in western Herat province. Dr. Wahid Majroh, the ministry’s International Relations Department head, told Pajhwok Afghan News the SIGAR report was “baseless and…
