Tolo News: Critics blasted President Ashraf Ghani on Monday over the creation of what they call incompetent task teams assigned to investigate major incidents in the country and for withholding the findings of such teams despite having pledged otherwise. Click here to read more (external link).
Daily Mail (UK): Afghanistan’s poverty has been a driving force in the rise of bacha bazi in the last 15 years. It makes it easy for predators to prowl the streets targeting ‘pretty’ young boys, enticing them from their families with promises of work or education. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A report prepared by a presidential task team assigned to investigate reports of ghost schools, teachers and students reveals that there are hundreds of ghost schools and thousands of ghost teachers and students recorded around the country. The report, which was leaked to TOLO news, also states that millions of dollars has been embezzled from
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 29, 2015 An Afghan businessman has been charged with bribing U.S. soldiers to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. supply contracts in a major U.S. court case targeting corruption during the war in Afghanistan. A criminal complaint filed December 23 in a North Carolina federal court charges trucking company owner
Khaama Press: Government has issued a final announcement for privatizing 100% shares of New Kabul Bank (NKB) saying it is in “the final stages”. Click here to read more (external link).
New York Times: Like so many other Western attempts to remake Afghanistan, the efforts have foundered, according to Afghan and Western lawyers and officials. Click here to read more (external link).
Seema Joyenda in an interview with Ariana News, says she prevented corruption in development projects when she was Ghor’s governor. Joyenda accused her deputy (Amin Tokhi) of being involved in fraud and irregularities in development projects. She says her deputy has embezzled more than $100 million in development projects. Tokhi denies the claims. Click here
Khaama Press: The Afghan government has identified 227 new defaulters of Kabul Bank five years after the collapse of the bank which was once one of the biggest private banks of the country. Officials in the Afghan Attorney General Office (AGO) said Tuesday that the government will start collecting the outstanding debts as a new list of
Tolo News: An anti-land grabbing campaign was launched in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Sunday in an effort to regain control of government-owned land seized by local lawbreakers over the past few years. According to local officials the campaign will continue until all land has been restored to government. Click here to read more (external link).
The Fiscal Times: The U.S. government has wasted at least $17 billion in taxpayer money in Afghanistan on various projects that never made it off the ground or were doomed to fail because of incompetence or lack of maintenance in the war-torn country, according to a new report. Click here to read more (external link).