KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai, at the head of a high-level delegation, left for Washington on Monday on a three-day official visit, an official said.
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Relatives of those killed and wounded in a September 2009 NATO airstrike in northern Kunduz province have sought $4.4 million in compensation from the perpetrators, a lawyer for the survivors said, claim denied by families of the victims.
KABUL (PAN): United States President Barak Obama visited Afghan spymaster Asadullah Khalid, who is currently undergoing medical treatment in an American hospital.
KABUL CITY (PAN): Minister of Economy Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal was appointed as secretary to the High Economic Council (HEC) on Thursday, President Hamid Karzai’s office said.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said it had spent 54 percent of its development budget in the first eight months of 2011, but the merger of the prison department lowered the expenditure to 44 percent.
KABUL CITY (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday strongly condemned a suicide attack that inflicted casualties on a large number of civilians in central Maidan Wardak province.
KABUL (PAN): Nearly 30 militants were killed in security operations and clashes in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior claimed on Friday.
KABUL (PAN): Forty-six insurgents, who joined the government-initiated peace process in Nangarhar, Herat and Kunduz provinces on Tuesday, claimed receiving weapons from spy agencies of Pakistan and Iran.
