KABUL (PAN): The Meshrano Jirga or upper house of parliament on Sunday condemned Thursday’s suicide attack in Kabul and asked the government to take elaborate security measures to prevent such attacks in future.
KABUL (PAN): Education Minister Ghulam Farooq Wardak on Saturday urged the international community to provide his ministry $3 billion in aid for the construction of 8000 schools, as three million children would be enrolled over next two years.
KABUL (PAN): An Afghan judicial delegation, led-by Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi, visited the deputy head of Iran’s judicial department during its trip to Iran, an official said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) Governor Noorullah Dilawari on Saturday linked the afghani’s decline to unlawful cash transfers from the country and a global economic slowdown.
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): 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”.
KABUL (PAN): The interior minister visited the scene of the suicide attack in Kabul, condemning in the strongest of terms the blast that occurred in a residential area of the capital.
KABUL (PAN): Fifteen people, including NATO soldiers and civilian contractors, were killed and 42 others wounded on Thursday when an explosives-laden car ploughed into a foreign military convoy in Kabul, officials and witnesses said.
