KABUL (PAN): Three Iranians, who have been living in Afghanistan for 13 years, has been granted Afghan citizenship, an official of the Administrative Affairs Office at the Presidential Palace said on Tuesday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): The Salang highway, linking Kabul with northern Provinces, was reopened for traffic on Friday after three days of closure, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): The National Security Council (NSC) on Sunday decided that foreign troops could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 based on an understanding with the government in Kabul.
KABUL (PAN): The National Security Council (NSC) has given American Special Forces two weeks to leave central Maidan Wardak province, President Hamid Karzai’s chief spokesman said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Three security personnel and four attackers were killed and seven others wounded as a result of a series of well-coordinated Taliban attacks in Kabul, Logar and Nangarhar provinces on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): A top Afghan jail official on Sunday said nearly 10,000 individuals, held over the past 11 years on charges of insurgency-related activities, remained imprisoned in various jails across the country.
KABUL (PAN): The numbers of prisoners across Afghanistan has shot up from 2000 in 2003 to 26,000 in 2012, showing an annual increase of more than 20 percent over the past 10 years, an official said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): British troops stationed in Afghanistan have been issued with Black Hornet miniature surveillance helicopters which could fit at palm, the military said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of Afghan refugees living in Iran have been issued passports to help them find work visas in the neighbouring country, an official said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): The current child and mother mortality rate in Afghanistan is five times lower than in the past 10 years, Presidential Hamid Karzai said on Friday.
