Some Western officials worry that President Hamid Karzai may try to expel security companies faster than his government can replace them with an Afghan force.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s president resisted demands from winning parliamentary candidates Sunday to dissolve a tribunal investigating alleged election fraud, potentially undercutting a deal in which he agreed to inaugurate the legislature this week.
President Hamid Karzai’s repeated refusals to accept the results of September’s parliamentary elections could undermine …
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The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a no-bid, 6 million contract for a lucrative electricity project in southern Afghanistan despite promising last year to seek competitive bids.
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Afghan lawmakers said they and President Hamid Karzai reached a tentative compromise to avert a looming constitutional crisis, paving the way for the country’s newly elected Parliament to gather within days.
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President Hamid Karzai rushed back from an official visit to Moscow on Saturday to try to mend fences after newly elected members of Parliament insisted that they would convene themselves on Sunday.
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The U.S.-led coalition reports the toll from the country’s southeast. A provincial governor says the victims were traveling for medical treatment.
U.S.-led coalition forces said Wednesday that a roadside bomb attack in southeastern Paktika province killed 20 civilians, including 13 children, in the deadliest insurgent attack in months.
Afghanistan’s political crisis deepened on Wednesday when a special court said it wanted President Hamid Karzai to delay the inauguration of Parliament by at least a month, and possibly much longer.
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After traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan this past weekend with other GOP lawmakers, freshman Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday that he comes away more hopeful about the U.S. mission there.
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A plan would expand the army and police forces to 378,000 fighters by October 2012, a 42 percent increase.
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