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AFPJapan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada held talks with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai during a surprise visit to Kabul Sunday, Okada's ministry said. Okada, the first member of Japan's new government to visit Afghanistan, arrived in Kabul Sunda...
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Reuters The head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan denied accusations on Sunday that he had helped cover up election fraud, and said he still believed a result could be reached that Afghans would find credible. In strongly-worded remarks at ...
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Xinhua Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has said that gunmen had been airdropped by unknown helicopters to the relatively peaceful northern provinces, a local newspaper reported Monday. "President Karzai alleged Sunday that some unidentified helicopte...
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Reuters Afghanistan's election watchdog changed its fraud-tallying rules for the second time in less than a week on Monday, switching back to a formula that lowers the chance of overturning President Hamid Karzai's first-round win. In a further sign of ...
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Reuters President Hamid Karzai needs to do more to ensure stability in his country if he is declared the victor of a disputed election, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday. Clinton, interviewed by BBC radio during a visit to Europe, was ...
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By MASOUD AHMADIHERAT - There are more than 20 private clinics operating in Herat city, including several with outpatient treatment services. Herat residents say the health care boom is not matched with enough state regulation, and they say the quality of...
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By NASEEBA ALIMYAARConsumers and food retailers are complaining about the quality of cooking oil in the market, a major staple whose annual imports total millions of afghanis each year. Retailers are blaming the government for allowing low-quality cooking...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQThis week's admissions by the head of the UNAMA mission of “widespread fraud” in the presidential election and the resignation of an Afghan member of the Electoral Complaints Commission because of “foreign intererence” have created f...
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- IDREES DANIELA couple weeks ago, this column alluded to reports that insurgents had been airdropped by unknown helicopters in the northern provinces. In a press conference on Monday, President Karzai said he has been receiving similar reports for the pa...
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By Fareed ZakariaMore troops won't solve Afghanistan. At the heart of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a major surge in troops is the assumption that we are failing in Afghanistan. But are we really? The United States has had one central objective:...
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Despite repeated claims and numerous rumors that the recount results and a decision on the election would be announced soon, there is still no word.According to confidential recount reports from the Independent Election Commission and Electoral Complaints...
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ReutersForeign and Afghan forces launched an assault on Monday against a group of Taliban in an area of eastern Afghanistan where the militants killed eight American soldiers at the weekend, an official said. Saturday's attacks in remote Nuristan provin...
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Reuters Afghan election authorities began a recount on Monday in a disputed presidential election, but new rules issued by a U.N.-backed watchdog appear to make it unlikely that President Hamid Karzai's preliminary win can be overturned. Election commis...
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IRINDozens of families from the Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Balkh Province, in northern Afghanistan, have been displaced from their homes after the Amu River burst its banks, provincial officials said. The Amu - also called the Oxus - is the longes...
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Reuters A U.S. diplomat fired in Afghanistan said on Sunday the United Nations not only ignored massive fraud in the August election but also told him to keep quiet, then dissembled about his firing. Peter Galbraith, former deputy to U.N. special envo...
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Telegraph According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week. The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on b...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQThe official recount of the presidential election will start within a matter of days. The Electoral Complaints Commission, which found “clear and convincing evidence of fraud,” ordered a recount of votes from polling stations with su...
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MASOUD AHMADI HERAT - Rising crime and insecurity in Herat are directly linked to a lack of street illumination, residents and security officials say. Herat city’s streets are lined with lamps, but the city can’t afford to pay their power bills, so st...
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By NASIBA ALEMYAR A government plan launched three months ago to round up street beggars in Afghanistan’s major cities was put on hold as resources were shifted to the election effort. Now, police are once again starting to arrest beggars.Under a new...
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By YASSAR SHARIFIJALALABAD - Black market meat imported from neighboring Pakistan have caused dozens of Nangarhar residents to fall ill. According to anecdotal reports, more than one metric tons of banned meat products including beef, chicken and sheep ar...
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