KABUL (PAN): Education Minister Ghulam Farooq Wardak on Saturday urged the international community to provide his ministry $3 billion in aid for the construction of 8000 schools, as three million children would be enrolled over next two years.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology on Wednesday announced more than id=mce_marker.8 billion had been invested in the telecommunication sector over the past 12 years.
ZARANJ (PAN): Thousands of people on Tuesday emerged on roads in southwestern Nimroz province, strongly condemning Pakistani attacks on Afghan posts in the east earlier this month and killing Afghans by the Iranians near the western border.
KABUL (PAN): A majority of Wolesi Jirga members on Saturday voted overwhelmingly for barring colleagues from withdrawing their requests to summon a minister, ending tension within the lower house.
KABUL (PAN): Stressing greater representation for Pashtuns in next year's presidential and provincial council elections, hundreds of tribesmen on Thursday staged an anti-Pakistan protest to condemn recent attacks on Afghan border posts.
KABUL (PAN): Water and energy minister Ismail Khan on Wednesday said a 20-year-long master plan aimed at providing residents across the country with cheap electricity "is being implemented."
KABUL (PAN): Sugar and firewood prices fell in Kabul during the outgoing week, when a 50 kilos bag of rice was sold 60 afghanis up against its last week's rate, retailers said on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): With implementation of On-Farm Water Management Project (OFWMP), a $41 million scheme, agricultural production would increase by 15 percent nationwide, an official said on Saturday.
