KABUL (PAN): The Meshrano Jirga -- or upper house of the parliament -- on Sunday asked the government to summon the Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan over a recent shooting incident at the border that killed and wounded several Afghans.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday announced the establishment of a Police Consultative Council (PCC), saying the 10-year scheme would help improve police credibility.
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of people rallied in Kabul on Saturday against US troops’ high-handedness and called for their withdrawal from the central Maidan Wardak province.
KABUL (PAN): NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has shut its 230 bases and transferred another 370 bases to the Afghan government as part of the security transition, a spokesman for the alliance said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhelwal has asked foreign and local investors not to worry about post-2014 Afghanistan's scenario, assuring no change is going to take place in the system.
KABUL (PAN): Eighty Taliban prisoners have been released from the Bagram jail, north of Kabul, in the central province of Parwan, and a defence ministry's detention facility, an official said on Friday.
KABUL (PAN): A cloth market caught fire in the Mandawi area of the 1st police district in the central capital Kabul, inflicting financial losses on traders, an official said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): The “National United Front against the foreign bases in Afghanistan” on Saturday opposed signing the security pact between Kabul and US, and said the presence of foreign military bases
KABUL (PAN): Some member of Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of parliament, on Saturday accused Pakistan of orchestrating the failed assassination attempt on the Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid.
