KABUL (PAN): Afghan Parliament on Saturday approved the appointments of seven ministers and rejected eight others as the lawmakers voted on President Hamid Karzai's cabinet nominees.
KABUL (PAN): A parliamentary vote in Afghanistan will be held May 22 this year, a top election official confirmed on Saturday, but said about $50 million needed from the international community to meet the election's estimated budget of $120 million.
KABUL: An MP casts her vote. KABUL (PAN): Afghan Parliament rejected 17 Karzai's nominees, two-third, of the total 24 for cabinet posts in voting that stretched into Saturday evening to finally form a government.
KABUL (PAN): Mohammad Ismael Munshi, President Hamid Karzai's nominee for labour, social affairs, martyrs and disabled portfolio, has said that creating job opportunities for the jobless would remain his top priority for the next five years.
KABUL (PAN): Minister-designate for Borders and Tribal Affairs portfolio Syed Ahmad Gilani on Tuesday pledged to strive for unity among the ranks of tribes in the country.
KABUL (PAN): Women's affairs minister-designate Husn Bano Ghazanfar has said the establishment of women supervision departments at each ministry to inspect their affairs and increasing the number of women officials in government institutions to 50 per cent would be her future plans.
KABUL (PAN): The minister-designate for Power and Energy Ismael Khan on Tuesday said he would bring 780,000 hectares of land under irrigation and would increase power production to 3,500 megawatts, if he was given a vote of confidence.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Investigators say police mistakenly killed Senator Sherin Agha when he drove through a police ambush set for Taliban militants in northern Baghlan last Wednesday, but family described it 'a deliberate action.'
KABUL (PAN): Noting that some countries using the refugee issue for their political interests, minister-designate for refugees' affairs Enayatullah Nazari has said he will fix the mess if entrusted to run the ministry.
