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By AKBAR ROSTAMI The streets leading from Pul-e Bagh Umomi to Pul-e Khishti are crowded with a wave of pedestrians, cars, bikes and sheep on any given day. The traffic spills over into the sidewalks, which are further littered by hundreds of roadsi...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ Parliament approved five ministers and rejected two following confidence motions this week. The three rejected nominees were Ghulam Sarwar Danish for the Higher Education Ministry post and Daoud Najafi for the Transportation Ministr...
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By NASIBA ALIMYAAR Posters and other campaign advertising are once again prevalent throughout the capital. As in past elections, signs and posters have been put up in private and public areas. This year, the municipality warned candidates that they...
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By FRANK RICH THE moment he pulled the trigger, there was near-universal agreement that President Obama had done the inevitable thing, the right thing and, best of all, the bold thing. But before we get carried away with relief and elation, let's n...
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Political changes are about to take place. The Afghan administration has been meeting with Pakistani military and intelligence officials. Pakistan is emerging from behind the scenes to broker a power-sharing deal with its puppets. Ostensibly these ...
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By NASIBA ALIMYAAR The Kabul Municipality has issued a new deadline to Mandaii business owners who were told to relocate. The Mandaii Market, which was built 40 years ago, extends from the Pul Bagh Umomi area to Pul-e Khishti. The city has told sh...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ On Saturday the election commission published the final list of candidates running for the 2010 Wolesi Jirga Election. More than 2,500 candidates will compete for 240 seats. Only 12 individuals were dropped from the running because o...
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By KABUL WEEKLY STAFF Graduates of a Canadian-funded photography training seminar held an exhibition of their work last week in the Canadian Embassy. The 32 young men and women completed a three-month professional course that was taught by traine...
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It was a busy news week for Afghanistan. Among the main stories: White House officials confirmed that a planned troop withdrawal in July is still set to happen. The United Nations reported that it will relocate 1,000 of its foreign staff from Afg...
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- IDREES DANIEL Last week Afghan media outlets quoting the ministries of defense and interior, reported that only 9-11 of the country's 364 districts are entirely secure and stable. The rest are insecure by various levels. In a recent session in Par...
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ROBERT H. REID (AP) Rising death tolls, military timetables slowed. Infighting in the partner government. War-weary allies packing up to leave - and others eyeing an exit. Events this spring - from the battlefields of Helmand and Kandahar to the ...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ The Taliban are not swayed by a United Nations review of a blacklist that includes the name of some 137 of its members and associates. A Taliban spokesman told the Kabul Weekly that the group won't negotiate with the Afghan governmen...
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ByNASIBA ALEMYAR Poultry farmers say despite claims of progress by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, their industry is being threatened by illegal imports of poultry and poultry products from Pakistan. Ministry officials say p...
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By MASOUD AHMADI Weddings are, simply put, a big deal in Afghanistan. In recent years, traditions have evolved, and so has the price tag of a wedding. Most of the wedding costs fall on the groom and his family, and many Heratis say it's becoming i...
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Is Kandahar more important than the rest of the country? The fraudulent president's recent visit to Kandahar was packaged as a trip to express condolences to the victims of last week's tragic terrorist attack on a wedding party. Yet he was accompanie...
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Turkey, India and the West combined can do much to eliminate terrorism in the region with a few policy changes. Pakistani officials strongly reject allegations that its government has links to the Taliban - an allegation that has repeatedly resurfa...
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BY ELIZABETH RUBIN The puzzling resignation on June 6 of President Hamid Karzai's two security chiefs -- Amrullah Saleh, the director of intelligence, and Hanif Atmar, the interior minister -- has left many Afghan hands wondering about what was beh...
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By MASOUD AHMADI HERAT - Stray dogs prowl Herat city's garbage dumps, restaurants and butcher shops in search of scraps. At night, the city's dogs rule in packs, roaming the nearly empty streets in relative freedom compared to the daytime. In the...
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By AKBAR ROSTAMI A group of five men who just arrived in Kabul from Herat entered a modest guesthouse and inquired about room rates and amenities. A concierge immediately assured them that he had five rooms available and that the accommodations wer...
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