KABUL (PAN): The Council of Baloch Elders of Afghanistan on Sunday voiced their support for the government in guarding the country's borders against Pakistani intrusions.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said his government should be credited for restoring many of women's rights in the country over the past decade.
KABUL (PAN): Italian Defence Minister Mario Mauro, who called on President Hamid Karzai at his office on Sunday, pledged his country's continued support to Afghan forces.
KABUL (PAN): Dozens of inmates at the Pul-i-Charkhi detention centre, east of Kabul, on Sunday went on hunger strike to press for clemency under a presidential decree, a senior jail official said.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Monday strongly condemned the killing civilian by ISAF forces in the Chaparhar district of eastern Nangarhar province.
KABUL (PAN): Six civilians and three local policemen were injured in a bomb blast that ripped through a shop in a bazaar in the Shakin district of southeastern Paktika province on Saturday, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): A woman was among five would-be suicide bombers detained by police in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, an official said on Friday, claiming the detainees were planning attacks in Kabul.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said his administration was holding "precise negotiations" with the US over a bilateral security agreement, keeping in mind Afghanistan's interests and sovereignty.
