KABUL (Pajhwok): The documents of four ministers-designate and two Supreme Court members, President Ashraf Ghani’s nominees, have reached the Wolesi Jirga and may be introduced next week, the lower house said on Monday. Several key ministries...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wolesi Jirga on Monday summoned five ministers for next week over their failure to spend their development budgets. Minister of public Works, justice, counternarcotics, transport and telecommunications have been summoned to...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Higher Education Minister Najibullah Khwaja Umari on Sunday said some parliamentarians had a hand in the clash on the Kabul University campus, in which one person was killed and several others were arrested. Umari, who appeared...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some Wolesi Jirga members on Monday asked the government to revoke the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States because the deal had resulted in increased insecurity instead of peace and stability. The BSA was inked...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wolesi Jirga or lower house of the parliament on Monday expressed concern over increasing insecurity in the country and confrontation between the government and political parties. Wolesi Jirga speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi told...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Wednesday’s session of the Wolesi Jirga , or lower house of Parliament, ended with an exchange of harsh words between two lawmakers. Earlier, civil society activists and residents of southern Ghazni province demanded reopening of...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some Wolesi Jirga (lower house) members on Wednesday expressed concern over the attachment of a sticker to paper identity cards of those registering to vote. The lawmakers were of the view that the sticker attachment had slowed down...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Influential lawmakers from southeastern Afghanistan , criticizing the unity government and the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) for what they alleged fueling ethnic strife, have said they would soon announce a new national political alliance.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Pajhwok Afghan News findings show nearly 50 percent of Parliament members did not visit their provinces this winter recess and a majority of them cited security reasons. Administrative boards of both houses of the parliament direct...