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KABUL - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has held his final press conference in Kabul. SRSG: Thank you very much and thank you also for coming to my last press…

KABUL - Success in Afghanistan hinges on a better understanding of Afghan society by the world and the assumption of greater responsibility by its authorities, the outgoing United Nations envoy there said today. The…

4 March 2010 - Experts cannot state with precision when the old city of Herat was built as it stands today. Herat’s history as a human settlement dates as far back as the Iron Age, and under Alexander the Great, during pre…

4 March 2010 - The latest issue of UNAMA’s quarterly Afghan Update magazine recognizes Afghanistan’s rich past and the need to preserve it for future generations. Download magazine: English - Dari - Pashto

3 March 2010 - For Bashir Ahmad, who runs a sports shop in downtown Jalalabad, the last three weeks have probably been the busiest since he opened his business nine years ago. An unexpected rise in the sale of cricket gear…

3 March 2010 - The history and archaeology of Afghanistan stretches back more than 40 millennia, from Palaeolithic sites where stone tools illustrate aspects of the lives of the first human settlements in Afghanistan, through…

KABUL - A nation’s integrity is best assured when its members hold fast to the cultural values that fortify their sense of identity, and societies that live in harmony by welcoming the new while treasuring the past maintain…

1 March 2010 - The Government of Afghanistan has initiated a programme tapping Mullahs and religious elders in making people aware of women’s rights in accordance with Islamic laws, the Afghan institutional law and…

28 February 2010 - A new radio station named Charagh (meaning: the lamp) has been established in Kunduz. It is the fifth free and private radio station to be established in Kunduz, which covers 70 km of Kunduz and its nearby…

28 February 2010 - Afghanistan’s National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) announced today that it would strengthen its Protected Species List by adding an additional 15 species, including the elusive large-billed reed…

27 February 2010 - The United Nations is currently studying a legislative decree that would give Afghan President Hamid Karzai the power to appoint all five members of the country’s Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC)…

NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations mission in Afghanistan have strongly condemned Friday's attacks in Kabul which caused the death and injury of many Afghan and foreign residents and for which the…