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Features Education in Nangarhar- future at stake Izzatullah Zawab & Abdul Hadi Dariz - Jul 19, 2008 - 20:24 JALALABAD (PAN) Forgery in educational documents and preparing fake degrees have become so much a routine in the eastern Nangarhar province, bordering Pakistan that some students don't have to attend even at least 6 to 9 years school and yet are able to get certificates of grade 12. Muhammad Nauman Dost - Jul 11, 2008 - 08:36KABUL (PAN): Eighty thousand roadside sellers are running their businesses on Kabul streets. They do not pay any tax to the government. At the same time, however, they do pay a form of tax - albeit illegal. They grease policemens palms to keep their makeshift, mobile stalls operating. Taliban knocking on the gates of Peshawar Abid Jan Razarwal - Jun 28, 2008 - 10:47 KABUL (PAN): After a failed peace deal attempt and under pressure from US and Afghanistan, Pakistan has at last decided to clamp down on local Taliban who are now almost in a position to knock at the provincial capital Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province. Traveling on Kabul-Kandahar Highway full of perils Shir Ahmad Haider - Jun 25, 2008 - 19:43GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Destroyed and burned vehicles on roadside and bullet sprayed walls and signs on streets face up the passengers on the main Kabul-Kandahar Highway with threats of attacks by militants and highwaymen. Securing Afghanistan's future M. Ashraf Haidari - Jun 11, 2008 - 11:17Despite the tremendous rebuilding needs of Afghanistan, the international community re-engaged in the country with a very light footprint from the beginning. According to a recent report by Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR), for example, Afghanistan received just $57 per capita in foreign assistance, whilst Bosnia and East Timor received $679 and $233 per capita respectively, in the two years following international intervention. Prices of Pak goods unaffected by falling rupee Mustafa Basharat - Jun 1, 2008 - 17:06KABUL (PAN): Prices of essential items imported from Pakistan have not decreased despite consistent depreciation of the rupee in recent weeks due to the worsening security situation and political instability in the neighbouring country. A role model for media magnates S. Mudassir Ali Shah - May 25, 2008 - 14:27KABUL: However phrased, Rehmat Shah Afridi's release from more than nine years in detention represents glad tidings for proponents of independent journalism --- a cause his newspapers lent an unprecedented boost in the late eighties and early nineties. But the price he paid for upholding the truth is also unparalleled in the chequered history of Pakistani media. NATO's most critical mission M. Ashraf Haidari - Apr 5, 2008 - 15:07When citizens of NATO allies look at the record of failure of military interventions in Afghanistan over the past century and a half, they may be tempted to ask: What chance of success does NATO have? People should realise, however, that comparing the present-day stabilisation mission to past military adventures is not appropriate. Pakhtuns' aspirations for peace Abid Jan Razarwal - Mar 25, 2008 - 08:34KABUL (PAN): The coming into power of Pakhtun nationalists, in the Pakhtuns dominated North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, sharing a long border with Afghanistan and suffering as a frontline province in the ongoing 'war against terror' is a referendum on rejecting fundamentalism, extremism and the culture of suicide bombing. Cost of obsession with a baby boy Zarghona Salehi - Mar 20, 2008 - 11:45KABUL (PAN): Like in other male-dominated societies, women in Afghanistan are expected to have successive deliveries if they do not give birth to a baby boy. As a result, they suffer the hazards associated with successive childbirths. WFP-donated wheat vanishes in Ghazni Sher Ahmad Haider - Mar 11, 2008 - 18:03GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Wheat stocks donated to of Rural Rehabilitations and Development and Education Departments of the southern Ghazni province have not been distributed to deserving people as yet. Consensus likely on extending Canada's Afghan mission Lalit K Jha - Feb 18, 2008 - 15:31 (3).jpg) Taliban being trained outside Afghanistan: Musa Qala ChiefAkram Norzai - Jan 29, 2008 - 11:43LASHKARGAH (PAN): Musa Qala district Chief Haji Abdul Salam in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News on Tuesday said the Taliban were being trained outside Afghanistan and come here for fighting against Afghan and foreign forces in the restive Helmand province. US vows to help rebuild Musa Qala Akram Noorzai - Jan 14, 2008 - 17:38LASHKARGAH, Jan 14 (Pajhwok Afghan News): The United States has pledged to help rebuild Helmands Musa Qala town, a former militant stronghold that NATO and Afghan forces recaptured from Taliban fighters in the wake of a joint offensive in early December. Pentagon plan evokes cynical response Zubair Babakarkhel - Jan 12, 2008 - 10:22KABUL, Jan 11 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Although the Karzai-led administration has instantly hailed a new US plan to deploy more troops to Afghanistan, analysts tend to react to the move with a degree of cynicism. They believe increased foreign military presence alone is not enough to bring peace to the insurgency-wracked Central Asian country. Orakzai's removal a prelude to operations in tribal areas Aamir Khan - Jan 8, 2008 - 18:12ISLAMABAD, Jan 8 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Some political analysts term the removal of NWFP governor Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai as a prelude to the military operations in tribal areas. More relief items delivered to Pak refugees Jamal Asif Khel & Saboor Mangal - Jan 7, 2008 - 18:38GARDEZ/KHOST CITY, Jan 7 (Pajhwok Afghan News): As the minister for refugee affairs visited their camps, Pakistani families that recently migrated to border districts of southeastern Khost and Paktia provinces received fresh assistance on Monday.  Pakistan most dangerous country on earth: NewsweekNewsweek - Oct 21, 2007 - 14:18NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Offering militants a fertile breeding ground and sliding into political instability, Pakistan is arguably the most dangerous country of the world, a mass-circulation weekly reported on Sunday. |
Pajhwok Photo Service BAMYAN, July 23: Hundreds of Hazara ethnics went on peaceful protest on Wednesday in central Bamyan province to sought solution for dispute between Hazara and Kuchi nomads in Behsood district of Wardak province. PAJHWOK/Hadi Ghafari Advertisements   |
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