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Longview News-Journal
April 12, 2018
Afghan Parliament member Mohammad Arif Rahmani said the district governor, intelligence service director and a deputy police official were killed in the attack, as well as 15 security forces. Rahmani said the attackers planted mines to stop reinforcements from coming to help the government forces fend offÃâà...
Herald-Whig
April 12, 2018
A lawmaker in the Afghan Parliament said three top district officials and several security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on a government compound in Ghazni province. Lawmaker Mohammad Arif Rahmani said the attack early Thursday morning in Khuja Omari district killed the district governor,Ãâà...
WBOY-TV
April 12, 2018
A lawmaker in the Afghan Parliament said three top district officials and several security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on a government compound in Ghazni province. Lawmaker Mohammad Arif Rahmani said the attack early Thursday morning in Khuja Omari district killed the district governor,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
April 5, 2018
People across Afghanistan this week expressed their support of the Helmand protestors – including lawmakers in Afghanistan's parliament. Last week dozens of women from Helmand also joined the Lashkargah sit-in by setting up their own camp, alongside the men's tents, outside the stadium inÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 2, 2018
Angry MPs blasted the officials and questioned the house's position. “Why has the Afghan parliament been pushed aside where the peace process is concerned. Mr Speaker, I believe that peace and the war is being exploited by certain people,” said one MP Fawzia Kofi. “Sometimes we invite guests in lineÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
April 1, 2018
(MENAFN - Afghanistan Times) AT News Report-KABUL: The parliament dismissed Pakistan's allegations over the presence of Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan, calling it 'baseless'. Pakistan's foreign ministry claimed that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is based in Afghanistan and organized attackÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 26, 2018
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Afghanistan's parliament are also hoping the Tashkent peace summit on Afghanistan will outline a comprehensive strategy to help end the war in the country. “This conference indicates the concentration of the world and that the neighboring countries get involved in the affairs of Afghanistan,” saidÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 24, 2018
The Meshrano Jirga, the upper chamber of Afghanistan's parliament, called attention to the Kabul protest camp on March 18 by voicing support for the demonstrators in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Islamabad protests began after the killing in January of 27-year old Naqibullah Mehsud during whatÃâà...
Yahoo Singapore News
March 7, 2018
"It's a sensitive issue," agrees Homayoun Mohtaat, director of the population bureau at the Ministry of the Interior. In 2006, he says, the Jogi petitioned Afghanistan's parliament for official legal recognition. Official estimates put the total population at 20,000 to 30,000 people, mainly in northern Afghanistan.
Voice of America
March 7, 2018
The Taliban's persistent silence to a widely praised week-old dialogue offer by the Afghan government prompted President Ashraf Ghani to repeat the overture and call Wednesday for the insurgents to seek resolution of issues without further bloodshed. Inaugurating the new session of the AfghanÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 5, 2018
The executive and legislative branches developed a more constructive working relationship, as the National Assembly, the parliament of Afghanistan, passed the national budget for 2018 and approved 11 of 12 nominees for ministerial positions. The Government also took further steps to implement itsÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 25, 2018
Meanwhile, Mohmmad Nazeer Ahmadzai, a member of Afghanistan's parliament, has said that none of the parties in Afghanistan has a national platform and that all of these parties are ethnic-oriented parties. “We are grappling with security issues and other problems today and how is it possible to addressÃâà...
Tampabay.com
February 25, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says that a former lawmaker and one of his bodyguards were killed after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the capital, Kabul. Basir Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, says the ex-lawmaker, Rafi Gul Afghan, and his bodyguard were gunnedÃâà...
Xinhua
January 17, 2018
An Afghan money changer counts Afghani at an exchange market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 18, 2018. Afghan lawmakers on Wednesday approved a 377-billion-afghani (over 5.4 billion U.S. dollars) national budget for 1397 fiscal year on the Persian calendar, according to Afghan Finance Minister.
Anadolu Agency
December 9, 2017
The parliament in Afghanistan on Saturday asked the government and Muslim countries around the world to suspend ties with the U.S. in a protest against President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem. After a number of members spoke vehemently against the move by the U.S. president, the lowerÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
November 27, 2017
The lower house of the parliament approved a landmark anti-corruption law in capital Kabul on Monday that makes it compulsory for security and civilian officials to declare their assets. The move is said to be in line with government pledges made during international conferences that urged Afghanistan toÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
December 31, 1999
(MENAFN - Afghanistan Times) AT News Report-KABUL: The members of parliament condemned discriminations in the employment of persons in government posts as 'unacceptable', saying the government has trampled the social justice that is a big oppression to the talented youth who are seeking job.
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
TEHRAN, Apr. 15 (MNA) –Boroujerdi, Chairman of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, met on Sun. with Koufi, Chairwoman of Afghanistan's Parliament Civil Society, Human Rights and Women's Affairs Commission, and reminded her of Iran's services to Afghan refugees.
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Afghanistan's parliament and some political figures have also said that the people of Afghanistan will not accept any move to delay the upcoming elections in the country. “The elections must be held on time at any cost, for instance, if the possibility of elections was not there, then we will moveÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
“The election that we had is a stigma in the Afghanistan parliament history,” MP Gul Pacha Majidi said. The administrative board however rejected the claims of fraud in the election and said the allegations were conspiracies to defame parliament. “It is a shame to take bribes and we never do it. We will eatÃâà...
