KABUL (PAN): Prayer leaders and religious scholars in Kabul and other parts of the country on Friday condemned the alleged burning of the Quran by foreign soldiers. However, they urged the people to avoid violent demonstrations.
KABUL CITY (PAN): Nearly a dozen groups, comprising 380 insurgents, joined the peace process as a result of efforts by intelligence officials, the spy service said on Thursday.
KABUL CITY (PAN): The Meshrano Jirga, recommending cuts worth more than 12 billion afghanis ($0.24 billion), on Tuesday approved the draft budget for the current fiscal year.
KABUL/LASHKARGAH (PAN): Thirty-five drug traffickers were detained and a large amount of narcotics seized in the capital Kabul, officials said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): The list of nominated ministers was completed and sent to the Ministry of Parliamentary affairs, the Presidential palace in Kabul said on Wednesday.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai has finalised and dispatched to the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs a list of his cabinet picks, the Presidential Palace said on Wednesday.
KABUL (PAN): The casualties caused by landmines have declined by 75 percent over the past 10 years and the figure will come down to zero after a decade, a demining organisation said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): With a majority vote, the Wolesi Jirga on Monday approved two agreements on cooperation with Turkmenistan and the International Law Development Organisation (IDLO).
KABUL (PAN): The High Oversight Office and Anti-Corruption (HOOA) said on Sunday the Ariana Afghan Airlines would collapse if government institutions did not repay its loans.
KABUL/MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Hairatan port’s revenue amounting to 3.5 billion afghanis ($70.8 million) has been unaccounted, a senior anti-corruption official claimed on Sunday. But the port director dismissed the allegation as baseless.
