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By Mark Thompson The Pentagon has made clear that the U.S. will leave Afghanistan when the rag-tag Afghan security forces have been beefed up to the point where they can keep the peace without help. "Significantly expanding [Afghanistan's national securit...
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These days a wave of international attention is washing over Afghanistan. The recent surprise visits by President George Bush president and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have fueled further policy discussions.A day before President Bush's visit, a m...
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-IDRESS DANIEL Since the announcements by Washington and some European allies that additional troops would be sent to Afghanistan to boost Nato forces and the ISAF mission, the Afghan government has stepped up its lobbying for more border security.Last ...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQIn a special session held Monday, the Lower House approved the government's proposed mid-year budget. The review marked the first time that the Karzai Administration presented a mid-year budget to lawmakers.The Finance Ministry increased the...
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By KABUL WEEKLY STAFFAbout two million Afghans have registered to vote to date, according to the Independent Election Commission. Eligible voters have registered in 20 provinces under a national voter registration drive that began in October.The third pha...
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By EHSAN RASHIDIEight prisoners were killed and 15 people, including three prison guards, were injured following a recent riot and hostage situation at Pul-e Charkhi Prison, according to a report by the justice ministry. Officials reported that police, ar...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ Even as President Karzai, the National Assembly and foreign donors have stated that the presidential elections will be held on time the Independent Election Commission has not announced an election date. According to the Constitutio...
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By NASEEBA AALIMYAR The government has shut down six food import companies and confiscated eight tons of food based on a public health threat. The Ministry of Public Health ordered the companies' closures based on concerns that their food produ...
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By KABUL WEEKLY STAFF In a meeting with a United Nations Security Council Delegation in Kabul last week President Karzai demanded a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops. He told the delegation that Afghans needed to know how long the “wa...
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AFP A suicide attack against police forces Monday killed 10 people including two policemen and wounded another 27 in southern Afghanistan, police said. A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body as he walked to a police vehic...
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AP Taliban militants who kidnapped two Afghan journalists have released them after three days in captivity, officials said Sunday. The two journalists freed late Saturday are Dawa Khan Menapal of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Aziz Popal,...
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AFP A suicide attack near a German diplomatic convoy in Afghanistan's capital Kabul left three Afghan civilians dead Sunday as 20 other people, most of them insurgents, were reported killed in other unrest. There was no immediate claim of respo...
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The International Herald Tribune Breaking with a military tradition of keeping silent about policy, a top German general has branded his country's efforts in Afghanistan a failure, singling out its poor record in training the Afghan police and allo...
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Reuters More Afghans are being detained without trial, with poor people or those without powerful connections, the most common victims, unable to pay bribes to secure their release, the United Nations said on Monday. Afghanistan is emergin...
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By ALEX STRICK van LINSCHOTEN and FELIX KUEHN Special agents from America, Germany and Pakistan are sent to a zoo in Afghanistan to track down some missing rabbits. The western agents start looking around, surveying the field, setting up field offi...
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-IDREES DANIEL Last week in a briefing to the Upper House of Parliament, Minister of Information and Culture Abdul Karim Khoram stated that “foreigners” have interfered in the drafting of the media law, which is now posing problems for his office...
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Last week during a meeting with a United Nations Security Council delegation President Karzai demanded a timeline for the on-going “war on terror” and the eventual withdrawal of foreign troops. According to President Karzai, if a timeline is not ann...
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US-led forces killed seven Taliban fighters in central Afghanistan while a bomb exploded near the capital Monday and wounded a civilian, authorities said, in new incidents linked to a militant insurgency. Coalition forces came under attack as they app...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ The Afghan government and the private sector have lost millions of dollars because of the contracts signed by the former transportation minister Hamidullah Qadiri. Qadiri, who was minister for less than 10 months, was dismissed two weeks...
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By MUHSEN NAZARI A month-long voter registration underway in Kabul ends in 10 days - and most capital residents say they are unaware of the location of registration centers, a Kabul Weekly survey has found. Out of 100 men and women surveyed, the vast maj...
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