KABUL (PAN): A Turkish businessman was rescued from his kidnappers in Kabul on Thursday after spending 11 days in captivity, an intelligence official said.
WASHINGTON (PAN): As the Afghan security forces takes up the challenging task of leading the national security, it is a testing time for ANSF, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers, adding that so far the returns are very good.
KABUL (PAN): A late 2012 survey shows some 80 percent of Afghan women have regular or occasional access to mobile phones, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said on Wednesday.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan National Museum head, Omara Khan Massoudi, will be receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) tonight, ahead of a conference in his honour titled "Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage."
KABUL (PAN): The Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Wednesday delivered money, vehicles and weapons it confiscated from convicted drug smugglers during the past two years to the government departments concerned, an official said.
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Seven people were killed and several others, including women and children, were injured when a suicide bomber struck a restaurant in southern Ghazni province late on Wednesday, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of Kabul University students on Wednesday staged a protest, demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights they said was un-Islamic. <--break->
BAMYAN CITY (PAN): At least 17 schoolgirls were brought to hospital for possible poisoning in central Bamyan province on Wednesday, a day after 75 schoolgirls fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in northern Faryab province, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul on Wednesday met with visiting UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova at his office in Kabul and discussed with her the situation in Afghanistan and in the region at large.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): An information technology centre has been established on the Balkh University campus with financial support from a German university, an official said on Wednesday.
