KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai has ordered a major reshuffle in the Ministry of Interior, one of the key state organs responsible for maintaining security in the war-torn country.
WASHINGTON (PAN): With violence spiking in the run-up to the parliamentary polls, top US officials have described conducting an election in a war zone as a challenge and called for bringing to justice those responsible for gruesome killings.
WASHINTON (PAN): The United States has strongly refuted news reports about peace talks between representatives of the Taliban and Hizb-i-Islami and emissaries of Richard Holbrooke in Islamabad and Peshawar.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai exchanged views with jihadi leaders and some politicians about the establishment of the High Council for Peace during a meeting at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday, his office said.
WASHINGTON (PAN): US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said people of Afghanistan must take the responsibility for the future of their country.
WASHINGTON (PAN): The Obama administration has voiced its concern at pronouncements and actions of the Karzai government on the issue of endemic corruption.
KABUL (PAN): Afghan Foreign Ministry on Monday said the deputy attorney general was obliged to give up his job as he had reached the retirement age of 65.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): About 52 prisoners, including five women, have been freed from the Balkh central jail in compliance with a decree President Hamid Karzai issued on Afghanistan's Independence Day, an official said on Monday.
