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Corruption – The Mounting Threat

Corruption – The Mounting Threat

May 20, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai | Opinion

There is no doubt in the fact that corruption is a mounting threat for all the societies. It is even believed that corruption is one of the severest injustices done to a society. Corruption is ...Read more

Safeguarding the Sanctity of Public Offices

May 20, 2013 | Editorials

The dirty game of blames and accusations between the Finance Minister and members of parliament got worse when the attorney general sought permission to investigate the charges and listen to ...Read more

Afghan Refugees in Syria Appeal Help

May 20, 2013 | Editorials

As the tension escalates in Syria with increasing number of the refugees and those killed in the violence, the fate of few hundred Afghan refugees trapped in Damascus remain endangered to become ...Read more

No Significant Measure in Place to Curb Corruption

May 20, 2013 | Editorials

People are sick of paying millions of Afghanis in bribes each year for receiving basic government services for which they are already paying in forms of various kinds of taxes. With no one giving ear to ...Read more

National »

Karzai Must Not Station Foreign Spies in Palace: Senates

Karzai Must  Not Station Foreign Spies in Palace: Senates

May 20, 2013 | National

KABUL - The senators on Sunday stressed that the spies constantly advise the President keeping their selfish motives in mind. This poses a great threat for the ...Read More

Afghanistan to Start First Commercial Oil Production

Afghanistan to Start First Commercial Oil Production

May 20, 2013 | National

KABUL - The first commercial oil production in the history of Afghanistan is expected to be launched in northern Afghanistan within the next two ...Read More

Afghanistan to Sign Security Agreement with US Once the War Ends

Afghanistan to  Sign Security Agreement with US Once the War Ends

May 20, 2013 | National

KABUL - President Hamid Karzai in a telephonic conversation with the US Secretary of State said that he will never sign the security agreement when violence is still prevalent in ...Read More

Obama Cuts Afghan War Funding Request

Obama Cuts Afghan  War Funding Request

May 19, 2013 | National

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday slashed by 10 percent his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other foreign operations, a White House official ...Read More

Materials for New Voter Cards Sent to 9 Provinces

Materials for New Voter Cards Sent to 9 Provinces

May 19, 2013 | National

KABUL - The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday dispatched essential materials to nine northern provinces for the distribution of new voter cards ahead of the April 2014 presidential ...Read More

International »

Obama to Speak on Legality of Drone Program

Obama to Speak on  Legality of Drone Program

May 20, 2013 | International

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterror practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official ...Read More

Iran to Allow Inspectors in after Protocol Signed

Iran to Allow  Inspectors in after  Protocol Signed

May 19, 2013 | International

MOSCOW - Tehran will allow international inspectors to enter its nuclear facilities after a protocol is signed, the Iranian ambassador to Russia said ...Read More

Two Blasts at Iraqi Sunni Mosque Kill 43

Two Blasts at Iraqi Sunni Mosque Kill 43

May 18, 2013 | International

BAQUBA, Iraq - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left after Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the ...Read More

France Suggests EU Link Easing Syria Arms Embargo to Peace Talks

France Suggests EU Link Easing Syria Arms Embargo to Peace Talks

May 16, 2013 | International

BRUSSELS - France is floating a proposal that the European Union ease an arms embargo for Syrian rebels but delay acting on the decision to intensify pressure on Damascus to negotiate an end to ...Read More

Syrian Refugees in Turkey Exceed 193,000

Syrian Refugees in  Turkey Exceed 193,000

May 15, 2013 | International

ANKARA - A total of 193,767 Syrian refugees are currently taking shelter in Turkey, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) said ...Read More

Editorials »

Safeguarding the Sanctity of Public Offices

May 20, 2013 | Editorials

The dirty game of blames and accusations between the Finance Minister and members of parliament got worse when the attorney general sought permission to investigate the charges and listen to ...Read More

Afghan Refugees in Syria Appeal Help

May 20, 2013 | Editorials

As the tension escalates in Syria with increasing number of the refugees and those killed in the violence, the fate of few hundred Afghan refugees trapped in Damascus remain endangered to become ...Read More

No Significant Measure in Place to Curb Corruption

May 20, 2013 | Editorials

People are sick of paying millions of Afghanis in bribes each year for receiving basic government services for which they are already paying in forms of various kinds of taxes. With no one giving ear to ...Read More

Kabul & Kandahar Attacked One After Another

May 19, 2013 | Editorials

As we will move ahead, Afghans may witness more violence in the form of suicide attacks, bomb blast and coordinated attacks by insurgents, albeit the chances of the Kabul government to collapse ...Read More

On EVAW Debate

May 19, 2013 | Editorials

The divisive crossfire in parliament during debate about the law of Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) seems to go into a radical direction with very provokingly sensitive use of ...Read More

Article/opinion »

Corruption – The Mounting Threat

Corruption – The Mounting Threat

May 20, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai | opinion

There is no doubt in the fact that corruption is a mounting threat for all the societies. It is even believed that corruption is one of the severest injustices done to a society. Corruption is ...Read More

Tit-for-Tat killings in Iraq

Tit-for-Tat killings in Iraq

May 20, 2013 | Masood Korosh | opinion

The sectarian violence unceasingly continues with no promising sign of possible stoppage in Iraq. On Friday two bombs targeting mainly Sunni community and left 41 dead and 57 wounded in Baquba ...Read More

Democracy Pledges Prosperous Afghanistan!

Democracy Pledges  Prosperous Afghanistan!

May 20, 2013 | Asmatyari | opinion

Following the collapse of the Taliban, Afghan representatives and the international community gathered in Bonn, Germany to establish an alternative system for post-Taliban Afghanistan. At the Bonn I ...Read More

Human Rights Must be Protected

Human Rights Must be Protected

May 19, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai | opinion

Two important factors that the international community has been trying to ensure before they leave Afghanistan are said to be the eradication of corruption and the preservation of human ...Read More

Sophisticated Russian Missile in Assad’s Hands

Sophisticated Russian  Missile in Assad’s Hands

May 19, 2013 | Masood Korosh | opinion

The New York Times has published a report that quotes an anonymous American official as saying that Russia has sent advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria which shows the strong and ...Read More