KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Wednesday appealed presidential and provincial council candidates to approach local printing industries trading in election campaign materials as part of electioneering ahead of next year’s ballot. AISA chief Wafiullah Iftikhar told…
KABUL (PAN): The Afghan Air Force officially received two C-130 transportation aircrafts during a ceremony in Kabul, the Ministry of Defence said late on Wednesday, amid calls for international efforts to strengthen the nascent force. Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi…
KABUL (PAN): Qayyum Karzai, a brother of the incumbent president, joined next year’s presidential race by filing his nomination papers with the Independent Election Commission (IEC) here on Sunday. Qayyum Karzai was accompanied to the commission by hundreds of supporters…
KABUL (PAN): With the presidential race gradually picking up steam, more candidates on Saturday formally filed their nomination papers with the Independent Election Commission (IEC) for the 2014 vote. On the penultimate day of the three-week candidate registration process, the…
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Friday congratulated the national cricket team on scoring an emphatic win over Kenya in the second one-day match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cricket League in Sharjah. By virtue of the seven-wicket…
KABUL (PAN): Key opposition leader Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday filed nomination papers for next year’s presidential elections with the Independent Election Commission (IEC) main office in Kabul. Abdullah, the National Coalition of Afghanistan, is expected to announce his strategy…
Military Hospital-related misconduct has been prolonged due to an incomplete investigation, weak indictment and prosecution, Officials said. “On a positive note, there has been some progress in implementing MEC’s recommendations related to funding provided by UNHRC, resulting in a review…
KABUL (PAN): Thousands of people welcomed home their national football team and President Hamid Karzai embraced the players upon arrival at the Kabul International Airport from Nepal, where they beat India 2-0 to clinch the country’s first international trophy in…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Police guards at the Iranian consulate on Saturday opened fire at protestors in western Herat province, killing one and injuring four others, an official said. The protest involving dozens of residents, mostly labourers, was staged in front…
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology on Saturday said technical aspects of launching the new computerised identity cards distribution had been completed, but the Meshrano Jirga was yet to approve the population census law. Talking to Pajhwok,…
KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for the public hanging of a serial killer, Hakimullah Shujayee. Shujayee, a resident of southern Ghazni…
KABUL (PAN): NATO officials on Monday said signing the proposed security agreement between Afghanistan and the US was a mutual contact between the two countries and the alliance would welcome and support it. Christopher Chambers, NATO senior civilian representative spokesman,…
JALALABAD (PAN): Gun toting Taliban fighters marched through an outcrop of east Jalal Abad province on Monday after a deadly firefight with Afghan security forces in the area on Friday. Taliban members noisily revved captured Afghan Police jeeps, chanting "long…
JALALABAD (PAN): At least eight people were killed and 21 others wounded in a suicide attack on the Indian consulate in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, officials said. A powerful blast, followed by intense gunfire, took place at the entrance…
KABUL (PAN) : A member of the Ghor Provincial Council, Fazel-ul-Ahad, was accused of lashing three young men in Dolina district of Ghoor province. On a video received to Pajhwok Afghan News shows that Fazel-ul-Ahad a member of Ghor Provincial…
KABUL (PAN): Twenty-eight people have been suggested to President Hamid Karzai, who will pick nine of them as Independent Election Commission members, Senate Chairman Fazal Hadi Muslimyar said on Sunday. A joint commission of both houses of parliament approved on…
KABUL (PAN): Documentary proofs of 72 lawmakers’ involvement in illegal activities are being provided to prosecutors and courts, a Ministry of Interior (MoI) official said on Wednesday. Hours after being voted out by the Wolesi Jirga, Interior Minister Mujtaba…
KABUL (PAN): Calling his dismissal a conspiracy, Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Mujtaba Patang on Monday vowed to raise a legal challenge to the Wolesi Jirga’s move. While bringing a no-confidence motion against him, lawmakers accused the minister of committing massive…
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Monday called 2013 a deadly year and said militants, aided by their foreign allies, were out to disrupt the security situation and control certain areas of the country. Addressing a joint press…
KABUL (PAN): The Cooperation Council of Political Parties and Coalitions of Afghanistan (CCPPCA) at a gathering on Sunday announced that the Jirga proposed by President Hamid Karzai to review the Afghan-U.S. Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) is unconstitutional. The CCPPCA added…
KABUL (PAN): Dozens of people on Monday staged a protest against Kabul police for killing seven people in the Deh Sabz district of the capital. Seven civilians were killed and several others wounded last week during a clash between police…
KABUL (PAN): All suicide bombers trying to storm the heavily-fortified Presidential Palace have been killed by security personnel, a police officer said on Tuesday. The assailants were travelling in two Land Cruiser jeeps, Kabul's deputy police chief told reporters at…
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior on Saturday took charge of training responsibility from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) at the Kabul Police Training Centre. The training centre commander, Brig. Gen. Abdul Baseer Syedkheli, said at a ceremony held…
KABUL (PAN): Three civilians were killed and 30 others, including six guards of a prominent politician Mohammad Mohaqqiq, the likely target, were wounded when a large blast rocked the heavily fortified Kabul city on Tuesday, police and witnesses said. The…
