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India and Afghanistan cricket teams join forces to appeal to parents to immunize their children against polio and end the crippling disease in the region once and for all. SRI LANKA - Indian batting superstars Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina, together with Afghanistan captain Nowroz Mangal and star…

New York - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mark Bowden of the United Kingdom as his Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. Mr. Bowden will also serve as Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator. He succeeds Michael Keating of the…

KABUL - Speakers from 30 countries and organizations stressed the need for an increased regional and international cooperation for peaceful solution of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Otherwise, they warned at an international peace conference organized in Kabul yesterday, insecurity and…

KABUL - Around 8 million children under five years of age were administered anti-polio drops during a three-day nationwide campaign in Afghanistan last week. The campaign started on 16 September 2012 and continued for three days in which 55,000 service providers including 45000 volunteers went door…

KABUL - At a gathering in Kabul of Islamic scholars from around the world to shore up support for a peaceful Afghanistan. Listen to the audio | read the Transcript .

KANDAHAR - Hundreds of tribal elders and local representative of Zary district of Kandahar called upon insurgents to give up violence and join the peace process. Speaking at a gathering organized by the Kandahar Provincial Peace Committee to mark the Peace Week campaign, 20-25 September, the local…

KANDAHAR - The outgoing governor of Helmand province, Mohammad Gulab Mangal, was given a heartfelt farewell, at a ceremony in Lashkar Gah yesterday, stated a Governor’s office press release. The ceremony was attended by high-ranking civil and military officials, Provincial Council members, religious…

PAKTYA - Tens of university students, members of the civil society and human rights activists staged a demonstration yesterday condemning the flogging of a 16-year-old girl by community elders and mullahs in Jaghuri district of Ghazni province. Chanting slogans, the demonstrators marched from Kabul…

KUNDUZ - The Kunduz Provincial Peace Committee, in collaboration with the United Nations, organized a poetry event under the title “Peace and National Unity Evening Poetry” at Kunduz University yesterday. Around 200 Government officials, members of the Kunduz Provincial Peace Committee and the…

NEW YORK - As the high-level debate at the United Nations General Assembly began today in New York, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “profoundly concerned about continued violence” in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Full transcript of the Secretary-General's address to…

NEWYORK - In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level debate in New York yesterday, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, highlighted his nation as a testament to the “benefits of multi-lateral cooperation and international solidarity,” while also calling for…

26 September 2012 - A UNAMA photographer is back in Kabul after showing, through his images, the everyday life of the Afghan people. The images were put on display from 14 to 22 September at a gallery in Melbourne. Click here for some photos of the exhibition According to Jillian Hocking, Course Co…