KABUL (PAN): Fifteen hectares of land was cleared of the illicit poppy crop during a campaign that began a day earlier in the Sarobi district of central Kabul province, an official said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Two major opposition groupings on Wednesday criticised signing of the strategic cooperation agreement between Afghanistan and the US government.
KABUL (PAN): Several civil society activists claim the government continued to ignore their demands and their voice remain muted despite their past positive contribution to the nation.
KABUL (PAN): To push Afghanistan’s economic agenda, several national-level trade bodies urge the government to introduce a series of policies -- including levying taxes on imports to formation of an independent authority for industrial parks’ development.
KABUL (PAN): “I cover most of my family expenses with the blisters of my hands,” are the poetic words that 55-year-old Fatima employs to describe her source of income.
KABUL (PAN): The Salam Watandar Radio has been broadcasting programmes through its 47 local stations in 29 of the country’s 34 provinces as an independent media outlet, officials said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): A shortage water reservoirs and sharing of the precious, but depleting, resource with neighbours have created a critical situation for the country’s water and energy sector.
KABUL (PAN): Canadian embassy staff and and government officials were among 85 people who donated 32,000 cubic centimetres of blood to the national blood bank on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): Drivers complain low-quality fuel has flooded Kabul, despite the Afghanistan National Standards Authority (ANSA)’s promise to take measures to curb substandard fuel imports.
