KABUL (PAN): Amid increasing public demand for mobile credit machines in the capital Kabul, officials say the service will be expanded nationwide over next two years.
KABUL (PAN): Calling insider attacks a threat, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Tuesday voiced its concern over the killing of its first soldier in 2013 by a gunman in the Afghan National Army (ANA) uniform in southern Helmand province.
KABUL (PAN): Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said the international community extends $4 billion on average in annual assistance to Afghanistan. Corruption in utilisation of the aid could not be checked because it was spent through different channels.
KABUL (PAN): More than 150,000 heavy and light weapons have so far been delivered to the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme since its inception in 2005, officials said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): The Wolesi Jirga on Saturday postponed summoning nearly a dozen Cabinet ministers after lawmakers exchanged harsh arguments over a parliamentary panel's report detailing names of those involved in land-grab.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan's media support organisation, NAI, on Tuesday identified lack access to information, insecurity and financial problems as main challenges to media outlets during the current year, alleging attempts at curbing the freedom of expression.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Public Works on Sunday said 300 areas, including the Salang Pass that connects Kabul with northern Afghanistan, would be disaster-prone during current winter season.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday accused foreigners of fuelling administrative corruption in the country, hoping the level of graft would come down after the 2014 withdrawal of NATO-led troops.
KABUL CITY (PAN): A number of prisoners in the Pul-i-Charkhi Jail in Kabul on Tuesday went on a hunger strike and sewed up their lips as a mark of protest in a delay in the disposal of their cases.
