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).
Ariana News: Research indicates that female inmates face serious problems in prisons; in addition to sexual harassments, the female prisoners do not have access to the lawyers. Click here to read more (external link).
The Nation (USA): Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies. By 2007, the US Geological Survey had undertaken the most comprehensive study of the mineral deposits below the country’s surface. An internal Pentagon memo claimed that Afghanistan could develop into the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” referring to the mineral that
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani’s former legal advisor Abdul Ali Mohammadi has claimed that the entire process of the controversial Smart City housing project with convicted Kabul Bank defaulterl Khalilullah Frozi was supervised by the president himself. Mohammadi said Ghani approved a Kabul Bank debt recuperation procedure that mapped out a repayment package for Frozi.
Khaama Press December 14, 2015 Abdul Ali Mohammadi who was suspended from his post as legal adviser to the presidential palace over the controversial scandal of Smart City project says President was forced to suspend him. Mohammadi who was summoned to the Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of Parliament on Monday said after the termination
Press TV December 4, 2015 A highly secretive CIA-trained paramilitary unit, known as the Khost Protection Force (KPF), operating in eastern Afghanistan, has been implicated in civilian killings, torture and resorting to excessive force under the guise of counterterrorism activities, a new report says. Paid, equipped, and directed by the US Intelligence Agency to allegedly
Wall Street Journal: Foreign donors have threatened to stop funding Afghanistan’s anticorruption watchdog after questions surfaced over its spending and the defection of several of the body’s top graft busters, according to a letter and members of the group. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV December 3, 2015 The Pentagon has wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money on luxurious private villas for US government staff in Afghanistan, a congressional watchdog reveals. John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), wrote a five-page letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on November 25, saying that the Pentagon Task