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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

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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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KABUL (PAN): Members of the Wolesi Jirga, during a debate on a draft poll law, on Wednesday differed on conditions for parliamentary and provincial council candidates.
Article 10 of the proposed law, having 17 chapters and 66 articles, states a candidate for the presidency should have a bachelor’s degree. Article 11, Wolesi Jirga candidates must be 12th graders and former members of the parliament.

KABUL (PAN): Wolesi Jirga member Samiullah Samim on Tuesday suggested a special tribunal be established to investigate Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal’s allegations against him and five other parliamentarians.
A day earlier, Zakhilwal revealed the names of the lawmakers he had earlier accused of smuggling and making illegal demands on the government.

PUL-I-ALAM/SHARAN (PAN): Hundreds of religious scholars from central Logar province on Tuesday announced their stout support for the next presidential elections.
Afghans should actively participate in the 2014 vote to decide their future, a member of the Logar Ulema council, Maulvi Mohammad Rafiq, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

KABUL (PAN): Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal on Monday revealed the names of the lawmakers he had earlier accused of smuggling and making illegal demands on the government.
Speaking in the Wolesi Jirga, Zakhilwal said MP from Kandahar Hameedzai Lalai had demanded licence plates for 1,970 right-hand drive vehicles. There is a ban a number plates for such vehicles under a cabinet decision.

KABUL (PAN): The Meshrano Jirga -- or upper house of the parliament -- on Sunday asked the government to summon the Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan over a recent shooting incident at the border that killed and wounded several Afghans.

KABUL (PAN): Members of the Meshrano Jirga -- or upper house of the parliament -- on Sunday said the incoming Pakistan government would not help Afghanistan and asked the Karzai administration to review its policy toward the neighbouring country.

KABUL (PAN): Some Wolesi Jirga members on Sunday insisted on summoning the finance minister, warning that the parliament would lose its credibility if the deadlock on the issue persisted.
Lawmakers decided to summon the ministers of finance and interior who had accused them of having hand in drug trafficking and other illegal activities.

KABUL (PAN): A majority of Wolesi Jirga members on Saturday voted overwhelmingly for barring colleagues from withdrawing their requests to summon a minister, ending tension within the lower house.
The vote came after some legislators withdrew the forms they had submitted for summoning Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal and Interior Minister Mujtaba Patang.

KABUL (PAN): The Right and Justice Party on Thursday strongly denied receiving money from any foreign organisation on a monthly basis as reported by two local media outlets.
Hamidullah Farooqi, the party spokesman, told a press conference in Kabul the allegation should be investigated. He asked the media outlets to produce evidence in support of their claim.
He added the party had been accused of receiving $60,000 per month from the Dubai-based Anham Company -- a logistic supply firm.