KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani has issued a decree, tasking the second vice-president and the chief executive officer (CEO) with supervising the distribution of electronic identity cards (e-tazkiras).

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has suspended around 1,000 workers charged with distribution of computerised national identity cards, an official said on Wednesday. The employees were placed on suspension on Tuesday in compliance...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF/ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Like some other provinces, residents of northern Balkh and eastern Kunar provinces also staged rallies on Saturday to push for adding the word “Afghan” to the biometric national identity cards. In Balkh, thousands...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Mentioning or not mentioning word “Afghan” in the new electronic ID cards should not divide the Afghans, senators said on Tuesday. After the parliament approved the Census Law last year, some lawmakers, civil society activists and...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday said the Council of Ministers decision about the issuance of electronic identity cards remained unchanged and would be implemented.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Civil society activists in northern Balkh province on Sunday asked the central government to start issuing computerized national identity cards to the people without further delay, which some activists linked to the 2014...