KABUL (PAN): A 34-member parliamentary group called” Risalat” on Monday said computerised identity cards were crucial to ensuring transparency in next presidential and provincial council elections.
KABUL (PAN): Seventy-seven members of the NATO-backed Afghan Local Police (ALP) were referred to the military prosecution office for committing various crimes since the militias were raised two years ago in various provinces, a senior official said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): Border police officers on Sunday seized more than two kilograms of heroin at the Kabul International Airport before the departure of a flight to New Delhi.
KABUL (PAN):Top US official has welcomed President Hamid Karzai's decision of calling into session the Loya Jirga, a traditional assembly of elders, to decide on immunity under Afghan laws for American troops staying beyond planned withdrawal in 2014.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai is to embark on a busy foreign trip this weekend by first travelling to London for the third trilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan-UK meeting on Sunday, then inking a strategic cooperation agreement with Norway and later attending an Islamic countries conference in Egypt, his spokesman on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Nearly 50,000 students at 55 educational institutes across the country would find access to the internet by the end of next year, two Cabinet ministers said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): Water and Energy Minister Ismail Khan and his visiting Iranian counterpart Majid Namjoo on Sunday inaugurated in Kabul the installation of two power generators, each consuming 18,000 litres of fuel per hour.
KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan Social Reform and Development Association distributed warm clothing and blankets to nearly 250 deserving families in Kabul, the body said on Thursday.
