KABUL (PAN): The Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of Parliament, on Wednesday adopted the amended electoral law with some further amendments after a long-lasting debate.
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): A suicide bomb explosion injured five civilians on a rickshaw on Wednesday in southern Ghazni province, an official and a witness said.
NEW DELHI(PAN): Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said his country was prepared to increase bilateral contribution to institution-building, training and equipment to the extent India could for Afghanistan.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday said it was concerned about suicide attacks, but the assaults could not represent any strategic threat to the security transition process and the 2014 elections.
JALALABAD (PAN): Governor Tamim Nuristani, demanding increase in the number of police and army personnel, has claimed about 200 various militant groups were operating in eastern Nuristan province.
KABUL (PAN): Lawmakers on Tuesday poured scorn on Jan Kubis, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and UNAMA head, for calling on Afghan authorities to step up their efforts at fully implementing the law on elimination of violence against women.
KABUL (PAN): Despite fund shortage, treatment of drug addicts would be increased from the current six percent to 48 percent over next four years, an official told the upper house on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): Despite fund shortage, treatment of drug addicts would be increased from the current six percent to 48 percent over next four years, an official told the upper house on Tuesday.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): As many as 26 Taliban insurgents and four policemen were killed during fierce gun-battles entering a second day on Tuesday in southern Helmand province, an official said.
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Hundreds of religious scholars and tribal elders who attended a gathering in central Logar province on Monday condemned suicide attacks as un-Islamic and criticised neighbouring countries for their interference in Afghanistan's affairs.
