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    Burning can't harm Quran: Karzai

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Sep 10, 2010 - 15:11

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Friday said that even if a US pastor went ahead with his threat to burn the Quran, it could not harm the holy book as it was alive in the hearts and minds of Muslims.

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    Governance

    HIA condemns threat to burn Quran

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Sep 9, 2010 - 17:27

    KABUL (PAN): The Hizb-i-Islami Afghaistan (HIA), the second largest militant group, has strongly condemned the announcemt by a Florida church that it will burn copies of the Quran on September 11.

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    Business & Economics,Reconstruction

    Depositors continue to withdraw money from Kabul Bank

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Sep 4, 2010 - 20:19

    KABUL (PAN): Despite assurances from high-level, including president Hamid Karzai and finance minister, nervous depositors of the country's largest private bank continued to withdraw their money on Saturday.

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    Business & Economics,Reconstruction

    Nervous customers throng Kabul bank to withdraw funds

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Sep 2, 2010 - 21:13

    KABUL (PAN): A large number of nervous customers were seen making unusual long queues to withdraw their deposits from the country's largest bank, Kabul Bank, on Thursday, after the bank's two top executives resigned amid allegations of mismanagement and unorthodox real estate loans.

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    Security and Crime

    Three Supreme Court staffers gunned down, 12 injured

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Aug 31, 2010 - 14:26

    (Update 1)KABUL (PAN): Unidentified gunmen shot dead three Supreme Court employees and injured a dozen others in the heavily-fortified capital city of Kabul on Tuesday, officials said.

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    Security and Crime

    Court staffers shot dead in Kabul

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Aug 31, 2010 - 12:47

    KABUL (PAN): Unidentified gunmen killed two court employees and injured five others in the heavily-fortified capital city of Kabul on Tuesday, officials said.

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    Governance

    Officials to meet on gas pipeline

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Aug 29, 2010 - 17:45

    KABUL (PAN): Afghan and Turkmen officials are due to meet in Kabul on Monday on speeding up a much-awaited pipeline project taking gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India through Afghanistan.

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    Security and Crime

    3 NATO soldiers killed in south

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Aug 24, 2010 - 11:33

    KABUL (PAN): Three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force have been killed in separate insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, the alliance said in brief statements on Tuesday.

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    Governance

    Kerry leaned on Karzai to curb corruption, say analysts

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Aug 21, 2010 - 16:51

    KABUL (PAN): The key objective behind US Senator John Kerry's flying visit to Kabul on Friday was to review a presidential decree banning operations of all private security companies in Afghanistan, believe political analysts.

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    Governance

    NGOs spending funds on non-development activities

    By Abdul Qadir Siddique Aug 18, 2010 - 21:30

    KABUL (PAN): A government review of non-governmental organisations has found that 20 of them spend 60 percent of their budget on non-development activities, a minister said on Wednesday.

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