KABUL (PAN): Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani has said negotiations with Australia were underway on the next phase of helping Afghanistan develop its mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves.
KABUL (PAN): The Wolesi Jirga on Saturday decided to set up a committee for investigating Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal’s allegations against six lawmakers.
KABUL (PAN): Twenty-one insurgents, 10 security personnel and four civilians have been killed in separate security incidents in the past 24 hours in different parts of the country, officials said on Saturday.
HERAT CITT (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, two murderers of Ali Sina, an eight-year-old son of a businessman, were hanged early Saturday morning at the central jail in western Herat province.
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Residents of southern Ghazni province want the Afghan government and the international community to address their pressing problems, including insecurity, joblessness, promotion of quality education, enforcement of women’s rights and sending them abroad for higher studies.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan has made significant progress in terms of security over the last 12 years, says the NATO secretary-general, who charaterised the headway as “real and tangible”.
WASHINGTON (PAN): President Barack Obama on Friday slashed by 10 percent his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other foreign operations, a White House official said.
