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Government delay presidential inauguration on US request...

By: Javed Hamim Kakar , Date:25/02/2020

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United States (US) has thanked the Afghan government for agreeing to postpone the presidential inauguration, a statement from the US State Department said on Tuesday. “We urge all parties... Read More

For sake of peace, Gilani urges end to Ghani-Abdullah rift...

By: Behishta Arghand , Date:25/02/2020

KABUL (Pajhwok): National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (NIFA) leader Pir Hamid Gilani on Tuesday stressed solution to the dispute between the government leaders and warned political problems would con... Read More

اشرف غنى: در مناسبات وزارت خانه ها و ولایات باید یک تغییر بنیادی بوجود آید

Ghani’s oath-taking is illegal and hasty: Experts

By: Azizullah Hamdard , Date:25/02/2020

KABUL (Pajhwok): Political affairs experts say President Ashraf Ghani’s oath taking event goes against the country’s laws and is ‘a hasty decision.’ The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on February 18 ann... Read More

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د کابل په موسهي ولسوالۍ کې د ولسي جرګې دټاکنو پر مهال درغلي شوې ده

KABUL (PAN): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday launched voter registration process for the 2014 presidential and provincial council elections simultaneously in Kabul and provincial capitals across the country.
A total of 4.5 million eligible people would get voter cards, IEC spokesman, Noor Mohammad Noor, told a press conference in Kabul.

KABUL (PAN): Urban Development Minister Hassan Abdulhai on Sunday said masters plans designed for provincial capitals and district centres could not be implemented due to growing incidents of land-grab across the country.
Abdulhai and Kabul mayor Mohammad Yunus Nawandish were summoned at the upper house to brief senators on progress being made in the execution of master plans in cities.
Some lawmakers complained that some provincial capitals had been ignored in connection with master plans.

په ولسي جرګه کې د ملي ترمينالوژۍ پر سر فزيکي شخړه وشوه

KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday said it was fully prepared to keep security for voter registration centres, a process beginning Sunday.
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) last week said it was concerned about security for voter registration centres, saying four million eligible people would be registered.

MoI assuages IEC's concerns about security

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.

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.
Nearly one million people in Afghanistan are addicted to drugs. Of them, 12 percent are addicted to heroin, 25 percent to opium and the rest use other types of drugs.

Senate briefed on treatment of drug addicts

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.
The upper house members said Kubis's demand was clear interference in Afghanistan's internal affairs, asking foreigners to avoid giving them such advises.