President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in a virtual meeting with Covid-19 emergency committee of Herat province on Tuesday evening received their report on progresses in fighting the corona virus spread in that province, a statement said yesterday.

Move follows request from political figures urging rival presidential candidates to show restraint

A list of some 62-members of political leaders, well-known faces, scholars and women was recently published by some sources as being members of the Afghanistan’s High Council of Reconciliation (HCR).

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said that Afghanistan and the United States had reached an agreement based on which the U.S. and coalition forces will withdraw from the country within 14 months.

The NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, is currently visiting Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said.

In a meeting with provincial council heads and members at the presidential palace yesterday, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said the peace deal was totally conditional, adding that government would focus development programs in districts and villages and that would consult with the provincial head and members.

Rahmatullah Nabil, an Afghan presidential candidate who stands in the 4th position securing 1.86% votes, following the announcement of the final election results by the IEC, said today was the day for the death of democracy in Afghanistan.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by phone on Tuesday with Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani over the progress made in the ongoing peace talks with the Taliban, the President’s office said in a statement.

The war-weary Afghans are supportive of the ongoing U.S.-Taliban talks to end the war in Afghanistan but described the process as a "boring practice" that has yet to deliver.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani conferred Mir Masjidi Khan state medal on outgoing Resolute Support Development wing in-charge here at the presidential palace on Tuesday evening.

This comes as World Bank indicates growth picked up in Afghanistan in 2019, but insecurity is holding back economy

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has appointed his deputy chief of staff, Mohammad Haroon Chakhansuri as the deputy minister for political affairs and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, the palace confirmed in a statement.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Washington’s aggressiveness has always been there through violating the rights of nations by keeping away from commitment to any of its political, legal and moral obligations.

The Afghan government's National Procurement Commission (NPC) has approved 35 contracts worth 46 million U.S. dollars, the Presidential Palace said on Wednesday.

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has denounced an attack on a UN vehicle that killed one UN mission's international personnel here, the Presidential Palace said on Monday.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met yesterday with UN envoy to Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto at Presidential Palace.

 Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Saturday that it had postponed the release of the preliminary results of the presidential election held on Sept. 28.

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has announced to reserve a minimum quota of 5 percent for women entrepreneurs in a bid to improve their participation in stabilizing the country's economy, an online local business economic media outlet reported Monday.

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani stressed achieving viable peace in his militancy-battered country through dialogue in the much-awaited consultative Loya Jirga or traditional grand assembly of elders and chieftains inaugurated here on Monday.

Afghan President Ghani hosts Uzbek delegation in capital Kabul, appreciates Uzbekistan's readiness to host peace talks