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KABUL - Mohammad Nayim, a thirty-nine-year-old former soldier from Kabul, lifts his left trouser leg without warning to reveal a Jaipur foot.
25 June 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon departs later today for Trieste, Italy, for a series of meetings with international partners focusing on the Middle East and Afghanistan, his spokesperson said today.
KABUL - Mr Robert Watkins, the new United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan arrived in Kabul today.
KABUL - Listen to our new daily radio podcasts in Dari, Pashto and English from United Nations Radio in Afghanistan. Our podcasts feature a variety of news and views from UN agencies in Afghanistan and other stories from across the country.
KABUL - Afghan officials today vowed to eradicate the country’s drug trade and drug-funded terrorism as they thanked the international community, including the United Nations, for helping out in the country’s counter-narcotics campaign.
KABUL - The World Drug Report 2009, launched yesterday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Washington DC, shows that global markets for cocaine, opiates and cannabis are steady or in decline, while production and use of synthetic drugs appears to be increas