KABUL (PAN): Former Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law has been detained by Turkish forces in Ankara city after the US allegedly informed Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) about his location, a newspaper reported on Friday.
KABUL (PAN): An Afghan-led two-day gathering, aimed at paving the ground for substantive negotiations between armed opposition groups and the Kabul government, began on Wednesday in Dubai, a potential venue for such meetings, politicians said.
KABUL (PAN): Wolesi Jirga (lower house) members on Tuesday came to blows over the issue of summoning nearly a dozen ministers for under-spending their development budgets.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Finance on Tuesday said it had drafted a law to facilitate investments in the country over next two years. The draft is being sent to parliament for approval in a month.
KABUL (PAN): Families of those killed and wounded in a suicide attack last month in the central province of Maidan Wardak on Sunday received monetary assistance, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): The policewoman who shot dead a US advisor at the heavily-fortified police headquarters in Kabul was mentally ill, an official of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Thursday.
ASADABAD (PAN): Five members of a family were killed in an air strike conducted by the International Security Assistance Force in Wanth Waigal district of eastern Nuristan on Wednesday, an official said.
ASADABAD (PAN): Five members of a family were killed in an air strike conducted by the International Security Assistance Force in Wanth Wiagal district of eastern Nuristan on Wednesday, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): The Afghan National Security Council on Monday said foreign countries have no authority to operate prisons in Afghanistan or to arrest Afghan nationals.
KABUL (PAN) The Attorney General Office (AGO) on Tuesday said eight people had been executed inside a high-security jail in Kabul in compliance with President's Hamid Karzai's decree.
