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KABUL - The Government of Japan signed an agreement on Tuesday to provide $20 million to a United Nations-supported programme to improve literacy in Afghanistan, which has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world.
BADGHIS - Pistachio yield in Badghis, Afghanistan’s leading province for pistachio cultivation, has declined by 50 per cent, officials have reported.
KABUL - Amid cheerful applauses and motivational clapping, the musicians and singers from Afghanistan and some regional countries mesmerized a considerably big audience of mostly young Afghans in Kabul during a two-day “Afghanistan’s Peace Musical Festival” 2013.
NEW YORK - Marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has noted that while poverty levels around the world have fallen, that progress has been uneven.
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemns an attack on a mosque today which killed the Governor of Logar Province, Arsala Jamal, and reportedly wounded several civilians.
BAMYAN - According to a newsletter from Secretariat of Minister’s Council, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai has appointed Mr Ghulam Ali Wahdat as the Governor of Bamyan province.