The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is appalled by an attack on Radio Zafar, an independent radio station close to Kabul , on March 28.
The Afghan Independent Journalists’ Association (AIJA), an IFJ associate, received reports from the head of the radio station that four unidentified gunmen illegally entered the station at 1am and tied up [...]
A new hydrological station was opened today at Qargha Dam near Kabul by the Afghan Deputy Minister of Energy and Water, HE Eng. Shojaudin Ziaie, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Eng. Mohammad Aqa.
The Qargha station is one of the network of 174 hydrological stations and 60 snow gauges and meteorological [...]
The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) celebrated the International year of Sanitation in the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) today.
The UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, hence, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development take this opportunity to celebrate this year while reiterating its commitments.
MRRD [...]
Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan calls upon the Afghan Government and in particular the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ensure the release of Afghan Journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab who was arrested last week by the Iranian Ministry of Information in Qum city.
Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, Editor in chief for a Women Rights Magazine was arrested [...]
Mohammad Ehsan Zia the Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development signed 9 development project contracts with community development councils in Urozgan province today.
These projects are funded by Dutch government and aim to bring wide range of facilities to rural communities in three districts of Dehrawut, Choori and Tarincot benefiting 2922 rural families while generating 8764 [...]
Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, left for Dakar, Senegal, this morning to attend the 11th Summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
The 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference will hold its 11th summit on Thursday and Friday in Dakar, Senegal. The OIC leaders will discuss a modern charter that [...]
President Hamid Karzai addressed on Saturday an audience of hundreds of women during an International Women’s Day ceremony in Kabul urging that Afghan women need the freedom to pursue more education and should not be forced into marriage.
At an opening speech, Husn Bano Ghazanfar, Minister for Women’s Affairs congratulated her country on the International Women’s [...]
The Intern ational Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely concerned at reports that the editor of a women’s rights magazine in Afghanistan was arrested in Iran on March 4 and continues to be held without charge.
The Afghan Independent Journalists’ Association (AIJA), an IFJ associate, said Ali Muhaqiq Nasab, editor of the monthly Haqoq-e-Zan (Women’s Rights) [...]
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