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June 20, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An electoral watchdog member in northern Takhar province on Friday announced his resignation, accusing the panel of supporting a particular candidate in last week’s runoff vote. Barna Salehi linked his decision to the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IEC) failure to maintain neutrality and the affiliation of all observers with one specific group. Full news...
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June 17, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC) on Tuesday said 2,556 objections, most of them against election workers in the run-off vote, had been lodged. The deadline for filing complaints expired today, IECC spokesman Nader Mohseni told a news conference in Kabul. He said 991 complaints were lodged against election employees. Full news...
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June 16, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS.org: No results have yet emerged from Afghanistan’s runoff presidential election last Saturday, with only partial results due to be released from July 2, and the final outcome on July 22. The protracted delay is partially due to the primitive state of the country’s infrastructure after nearly 13 years of US-led occupation. But it is also due to hundreds of complaints of electoral fraud, which could determine the expected close outcome of the contest. Full news...
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June 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The voting process went well in most parts of Kabul, but the turnout in some areas was lower than the previous elections. A Pajhwok report wanted to visit a polling centre at the Qala-i-Zaman Khan Girls High School in the jurisdiction of 16th police district, but officials did not let her enter the site. Full news...
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June 12, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: The eight patrol boats the United States bought for the Afghan police were deemed a “top priority” to transport government supplies and “to deter smuggling and illegal entry into Afghanistan,” according to military officials. Full news...
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May 29, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stars and Stripes: A Rossville man has pleaded guilty to laundering some 250,000 USD in bribe money received from Afghan contractors in Afghanistan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. James C. Pittman, 45, pleaded guilty last Thursday before Magistrate Judge William B. Carter according to a news release. Full news...
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May 26, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Afghanistan’ s election commission has fired 5,338 of its staff over alleged fraud in the first round of presidential elections last month. Those sacked will be barred from working on the second round next month, commission officials said. Full news...
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May 21, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Lawmakers from central Logar province on Wednesday accused Governor Niaz Mohammad Amiri of embezzling 5 million afghanis allocated for assistance to families from Azra district. But Amiri said he had kept the amount unspent. Some nine months back, the government set aside 5 million afs in cash and 300 tonnes of wheat for those hit by a draught-like situation after rebels kept the supply route closed for months. Full news...
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May 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Times: The U.S. government isn’t doing enough to fight corruption in Afghanistan, the top American watchdog for the country said Wednesday, raising the concern that much of the effort and the 103 billion USD that has been given to rebuild the war-torn nation is being lost to graft. Full news...
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May 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dawn.com: A deeply entrenched culture of corruption in Afghanistan not only defied America’s efforts to curb it but grew substantially worse because of international intervention, says a US military report. Prepared for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, the report acknowledges that US military forces were unprepared to deal with a country where private deal-making dominates public policymaking. Full news...
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April 26, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle: Ranked as the world’s third most corrupt country by Transparency International (TI), Afghanistan has been plagued by corruption for a decade as international aid money poured into the impoverished country. Revenues from the illicit poppy cultivation and trafficking estimated in billions of dollars and poor governance areas said to be the factors contributing to the ever-increasing corruption. Full news...
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April 17, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some warlords and government departments owed more than 100 million afghanis in unpaid electricity bills to the power utility in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Thursday. Eng. Hamidullah, the Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) chief in Kunduz City, said his department’s revenue stood at 600 million afghanis last solar year, but more than 100 million afs remained in default with warlords and some government departments. Full news...
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April 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Pajhwok Afghan News has obtained some video clips and photos that show many ballot papers have either been torched or thrown out. One video shows some individuals are stuffing ballot boxes in favour of presidential runners and others throwing ballot papers into a toilet. Full news...
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April 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some warlords stuffed ballot boxes and election officials committed fraud during Saturday’s elections in two districts of northwestern Faryab province, an official alleged on Wednesday. “We have received reports that say some warlords interfered and stuffed ballot boxes for their candidate,” he said, but did not name the contender and the warlords. Full news...
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April 6, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) officials said they have received over 1,000 regarding the violation of election. ECC spokesman, Nader Mohsini said around 1,269 complaints have been received from the people since 11:00 last night. Mr. Mohsini further added that the majority of the complaints were filed through mobile phones with the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission. Full news...
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April 3, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Vice News: You might have heard that the US spent some 102 billion USD trying to develop Afghanistan over the last decade — and that’s in addition to the estimated 6 trillion USD it spent going to war there in the first place. You also might have heard that a lot of that money vanished into thin air, went to shady contractors, corrupt politicians, or, occasionally, the Taliban. Full news...
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April 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: “A lot of fraud” in Afghanistan is hampering any positive results Western money might bring, the head of oversight for US work in Afghanistan believes. RT’s correspondent in Kabul has witnessed some of the misspending. Full news...
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March 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) warned of the problem of “ghost workers” in the past, but their most recent letter to the Combined Security Transition Command (CTSC) suggests the problem may be bigger and worse than ever suggested before. Full news...
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March 17, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Canalisation Department in eastern Nangarhar province says its own security apparatus is directly involved in illegal occupation of the department’s land. Canalisation Director Ziarat Gul Rahil told Pajhwok Afghan News his department’s own security officials had a key role in paving the ground for the department’s land to be grabbed. Full news...
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March 3, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Driving between Dasht-e-Archi and Kunduz City is perilous. Armed gangs are robbing people with impunity on the busy highway between the district and the provincial capital. Twenty-five buses were stopped on the Abdan Dasht stretch, and passengers forced to give up jewelry, money and goods. Full news...
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February 20, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: A few weeks after the never-prescient O’Hanlon (whose crystal ball might as well be a bowling ball when it comes to war and foreign policy-gaming) wrote those words, two campaign aides for one of the election front-runners, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, were shot dead in the streets of Herat. A campaigner for another top presidential contender, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, was beaten to a pulp by unknown assailants outside a sauna in Korokh. Full news...
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February 20, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FoxNews.com: The United States government has paid a company based in Switzerland more than 5 billion USD to feed the troops in Afghanistan, and thanks to a succession of no-bid contract extensions, the company, Supreme Foodservice, overcharged American taxpayers as much as 757 million USD, officials say. Full news...
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February 17, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ottawa Citizen: It is one of Canada’s main legacies in Afghanistan, meant to bring prosperity and jobs and win the hearts and minds of the Afghans in Kandahar province. And it still isn’t fully functioning. Situated around 35 kilometres north of Kandahar City, the massive Dahla Dam has been visited by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who highlighted it as one of his government’s “signature projects” in this destitute South Asian country. Full news...
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February 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: A US federal agency that sought to pay photographers for “positive images” of its work in Afghanistan has canceled the program. The project, created to combat negative news coverage, collapsed amid charges that the effort amounted to propaganda. Using USD 1 billion on aid programs in Afghanistan, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) solicited proposals on Monday for a project that aimed to... Full news...
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February 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A parliamentary panel on Wednesday accused the Kabul mayor of committing massive corruption ranging from the sale of government lands on forged documents to embezzlement of millions of dollars. Members of the Wolesi Jirga Commission on Communications and Transportation presented findings of their probe into complaints against Mayor Muhammad Yunus Nawandesh at a press conference in Kabul, calling for his immediate removal. Full news...
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February 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The Property Registration Unit in the High Office of Oversight and Corruption (HOOAC) is mandated to register properties of all high-ranking authorities. But former officials in the unit say it has neither been successful nor countered administrative corruption. Full news...
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January 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: They look like victims of an insurgent attack — their limbs in need of amputation, their skulls cracked — but the patients who pour daily into the Ghazni Provincial Hospital are casualties of another Afghan crisis. They are motorists who drove on the road network built by the U.S. government and other Western donors — a 4 billion USD project that was once a symbol of promise in post-Taliban Afghanistan but is now falling apart. Full news...
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January 30, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mother Jones: A hospital in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, which cost US taxpayers almost 600,000 USD, is so ill-equipped, hospital staff are washing newborn infants using untreated river water, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported on Wednesday. Full news...
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January 18, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The rift between Kabul and Washington has again widened with statements by Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Daoud Ali Najafi and a former US defence secretary Robert Gates. US claims of impartiality in Afghan polls are at stake. Gates has said in a memoir that is hitting the stands that top US diplomats tried to manipulate the outcome of the 2009 presidential election, and stop President Hamid Karzai from winning a second term. Full news...
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January 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: The mayor of a city in eastern Afghanistan faces accusations that he has used his position to embezzle public funds. Afghanistan’s anti-corruption agency, the governor of Logar province, and former employees of the mayor all say they have proof that Ahmad Khan Ulfat acted illegally in a number of separate cases. Full news...
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