KABUL (Pajhwok): Baku and Kabul will ink five documents of cooperation in different fields, the Afghan ambassador to Azerbaijan said on Monday. Mohammad Taqi Khalili said President Ashraf Ghani would arrive soon in Azerbaijan to take part in the 7...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said preventing violence against women was a shared responsibility of the government, ulema and civil society activists, urging all to discharge their Islamic and moral duty in this regard. Ghani...
KABUL (Pajhwok): More than six million children in Afghanistan are vulnerable to violence and other abuses despite the establishment of a proper legal platform for improvement in their lives, officials said on Wednesday.
KABUL (Pajhwok): First Lady Rula Ghani on Wednesday said creating awareness about peace should start from schools, universities and government departments.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The revenue of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has increased by 36 percent in the last three months, compared to the corresponding period of last year, an official said on Tuesday.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Civil society activists on Monday held a protest gathering in Kabul to condemn rocket shelling from Pakistan into eastern Kunar province, asking the government to resolve the issue through diplomatic channels.
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah and other government high ups condemned Thursday’s suicide attack in Kabul.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan government in a statement on Wednesday termed the recent calls by some circles for convening of a Loya Jirga as contrary to the country’s applicable laws and hence deemed ‘incompatible’. About a month back, the...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Gender Department and complaints registration centre have been established at the Education Faculty of Ustad Rabbani University in Kabul to help implement the gender-based non-discrimination and anti-sexual harassment policy, an...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Painting arts of women , depicting the bad situation of women in Afghanistan , were put on display in capital Kabul on Saturday. Shakila Shaqaiq Payez, head of Change for Afghan Women organization, who organized the exhibition, told...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Third Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) involving representatives of the international community is scheduled to be held at the Presidential Palace in Kabul today (Wednesday). Afghan government officials would present reports on the...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A three-member group of Taliban has been busted in Kabul, the National Directorate of Security ( NDS ) claimed on Tuesday. Intelligence agents arrested three suspects named Ziaul Haq, Akhtar Gul and Obaidullah during a special...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) on Tuesday inaugurated a 400-kilowatts electricity transformer, equipping hundreds of homes with new electricity in Kabul. Eng. Mohammad Tamim Safi, deputy head operations at DABS, told the...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Security Council (NSC) on Monday said a special international conference would be held soon in Kabul to discuss Afghanistan 's future. NSC spokesman and strategic relations head Qader Shah told Pajhwok Afghan News the...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Prices of ghee and sugar have dipped while rates of other items remain unchanged during the outgoing week in the capital Kabul, market sources said Saturday. Food Traders Union head, Fazal Rahman told Pajhwok Afghan News the price...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Friday strongly condemned a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in Kabul, in which five people were killed and 20 others wounded. The suicide bomber blew himself up outside Hussainia mosque in Qala-i-...