Kabul

 
KABUL (PAN): Bismillah Sher on Sunday became the first presidential candidate to file his nomination papers with the Independent Election Commission (IEC).

 
KABUL (PAN): The United Nations, supporting talks on stabilising Afghanistan, has hoped mutually accepted modalities for the dialogue on peace and reconciliation can be swiftly agreed and implemented.
UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative Jan Kubiš said the impression he gathered from a swing through the region that a political solution would be the key to sustainable peace and economic prosperity in Afghanistan.

 
WASHINGTON (PAN): The enemies of Afghanistan want to derail next year’s presidential vote, the country’s envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on Thursday, a day after the assassination of a provincial election head, Amanullah Aman.