KABUL (Pajhwok): The government on Saturday introduced to the Wolesi Jirga a dozen nominees for cabinet portfolios for a vote of confidence to replace acting ministers. Second Vice-President Mohammad Sarwar Danish introduced the ministers-designate...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The next year’s draft budget with a total outlay of 361 billion afghanis was tabled at the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of the Parliament for approval on Wednesday. However, some lawmakers said they would not approve the budget until...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The government on Wednesday said it would introduce nearly a dozen ministers-designate to the Wolesi Jirga for a vote of confidence on Saturday. Currently 14 ministries are headed by acting ministers. The government has introduced...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Wolesi Jirga or lower house of the parliament on Monday amended the 20th Article of Tobbaco Control Law, increasing customs tariffs on the import of cigarettes and other tobacco products up to 100 percent. The amendment draft was...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wolesi Jirga on Saturday reversed a majority decision to introduce Chief Secretary Khudai Nazar Nasrat to the Attorney General Office (AGO) despite opposition from some lawmakers. Earlier, the lower house of parliament’s...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wolesi Jirga or lower house of Parliament on Saturday decided to summon top security officials over the deaths of 26 security personnel in a massive Taliban attack in central Uruzgan province on September 30. Reports on...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Wolesi Jirga ’s permanent commissions were on Saturday tasked with investigating corruption allegations against the lower house secretary.
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday held a consultative meeting with Wolesi Jirga ’s administrative board members on “important issues”, the Presidential Palace said.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Some Wolesi Jirga members on Saturday demanded investigation into corruption allegations against the lower house speaker and secretary. Earlier, Humayon Humayon, first deputy speaker, had accused the Wolesi Jirga secretariat of...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Wolesi Jirga members, supporting President Ashraf Ghani’s speech at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), have demanded a scrutiny of allegations levelled by some leaders. Welcoming the new American strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A Wolesi Jirga or lower house member on Monday alleged some ministers-designate had offered government jobs to relatives of lawmakers in return for granting them the vote of confidence. Hameed Tahmasi has been nominated as minister-...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament on Wednesday decided to add granting the trust vote to eight ministers-designate to its agenda.
KABUL (Pajhwok): On their return from summer break, Wolesi Jirga members on Monday condemned what they called “Muslim genocide” in Myanmar and airdropping of blasphemous brochures by foreign forces in Parwan province. The lower house members...
KABUL (Pajhwok): CEO Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday urged the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament to grant the trust vote to the newly-introduced ministers-designate.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Wolesi Jirga commission on human rights, civil society and women ’s affairs head, lawmaker Fauzia Kofi, on Saturday demanded greater role for women in the government system. Kofi told reporters in Kabul the government had...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Wolesi Jirga ’s first deputy speaker on Saturday introduced the lower house secretary to the Attorney General Office (AGO) over embezzlement and employment of hundreds of people illegally, allegations rejected by the secretary...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A parliamentary delegation on Tuesday claimed finding evidence suggesting corruption and irregularities remained endemic at the Torkham dry port in eastern Nangarhar province. The lower house or Wolesi Jirga team, headed by Syed...
KABUL (Pajhwok): National Assembly speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi on Monday said the bilateral security agreement (BSA) between Afghanistan and the United States had no role in improving the country’s security and instead had worsened the situation...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of Wolesi Jirga or lower house members kept continued criticizing a new political alliance between three major ethnic groups on Monday, with the first deputy speaker saying the coalition resulted from President Ghani’s poor...