KABUL (PAN) Days after a border shooting incident, Foreign Minister Dr. Zalmai Rassoul met his Iranian counterpart Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi in Saudi Arabia, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): Wolesi Jirga member Samiullah Samim on Tuesday suggested a special tribunal be established to investigate Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal’s allegations against him and five other parliamentarians.
PUL-I-ALAM/SHARAN (PAN): Hundreds of religious scholars from central Logar province on Tuesday announced their stout support for the next presidential elections.
KABUL (PAN): A former head of the Taliban Political Commission has suggested changes in the insurgent movement, as a NATO-led troops prepare to end their combat mission in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
KABUL (PAN): Minster for Work, Social Affairs, Martyrs and the Disabled, Amina Afzali, accusing the international community of paying little heed to Afghanistan's priorities, on Tuesday said unemployment increased due to a lack of cooperation between public and private sectors.
KABUL: Afghanistan on Tuesday hoped with the change of government in Pakistan following last week’s parliamentary elections, tense relations between the estranged neighbours would start improving.
WASHINGTON (PAN): New Special Representatives for Afghanistan and Pakistan James Dobbins is making his first overseas trip to Berlin and Brussels, the State Department said on Monday.
WASHINGTON (PAN): US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday reviewed progress in Afghanistan, expressing satisfaction with the pace of security transition.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Monday urged United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to help develop Afghan security organs, especially the nascent Afghan Air Force (AAF).
