KABUL (PAN): Despite fund shortage, treatment of drug addicts would be increased from the current six percent to 48 percent over next four years, an official told the upper house on Tuesday.
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Hundreds of religious scholars and tribal elders who attended a gathering in central Logar province on Monday condemned suicide attacks as un-Islamic and criticised neighbouring countries for their interference in Afghanistan's affairs.
JALALABAD (PAN): Security Transition Commission chief Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Tuesday said the people should not worry about post-2014 situation as Afghan security forces were strong enough to protect the country's sovereignty.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai, who is in India on a two-day visit, on Monday night accepted an honorary degree from the Lovely Professional University in the northern state of Punjab.
WASHINGTON (PAN): The United States praised India’s role in Afghanistan, but refrained from making any comment on the reported move by President Hamid Karzai to seek military equipment from New Delhi post 2014.
KABUL (PAN): The Defence Ministry spokesman on Monday said violence could dramatically surge in eastern Afghanistan as a number of religious schools in Pakistan had been closed to send their students for suicide attacks on this side of the border.
KABUL (PAN): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and UN Women on Monday urged Afghan authorities to step up their efforts to ensure the law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) was fully implemented in line with their international commitments.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan and Iran have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which they pledged to promote bilateral cooperation in judicial and legal affairs and continued interactions to exchange their legal experiences.
NEW DELHI (PAN): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang on Monday discussed Afghanistan and agreed that the reconstruction and efforts for security and stability in the war-ravaged country should be Afghan-led.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai, heading a high level delegation, on Monday flew to New Delhi for a two-day official visit, his office said, amid escalating tensions between Kabul and Islamabad over this month's border skirmishes and stalled peace process.
