The capacity development Secretariat of the independent Administrative Reforms and Civil Service commission, supported by the grant from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund administered by World Bank, invites applications from Afghan nationals, resident in-country of abroad, to fill senior level and upper mid-level line positions within the civil services. A wide range of positions is available in ministries and other government bodies dealing with policy and regulatory design and administration, human resource management, financial management, and general administration. For some positions specific professional or technical backgrounds are required. In all cases however, recruits must be able and willing to exercise strong leadership in carrying forward the governments programs of administrative reforms and capacity development.

The first batch of contracts for establishing sub-centers and mobile health teams will be signed on Sunday Aug 24, 2008. Under these contracts, 12 non governmental organizations (NGOs) including 6 national and 6 international will establish 55 sub-center clinics and 16 mobile health teams in 19 provinces - Wardak, Samangan, Balkh, Sari pul , Nimroz, Badghis, Ghazni, Paktya, Khost, Bamyan, Takhar, Baghlan, Logar, Ningarhar, Laghman, Kunar, Zabul, Kunduz, and Di Kundi.

In total Afghanistan from Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI) funds has planned to establish 120 sub-center clinics and 80 mobile heath teams. 2 sub-centers and 4 mobile health teams were established two months ago in Kabul, Parwan , Panjshir and Kapisa provinces. The cost of the current contracts including 6 already established is 7,606,543 US$ for 3.5 years. Last year GAVI approved Afghanistan’s proposal for strengthening the health system with the total amount of 34.1 MUS$ from 2007 to end of Dec 2011.

 Aug 25, 2008 (ministry of  Foreign  Affairs,  Kabul)

25/08/2008 Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan met Mr. Araz Azimov the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan who is currently visiting Afghanistan.
Mr. Azimov while conveying the greetings of the President of his country to President Karzai offered his sympathies to the government and people of Afghanistan about the tragic event in Herat; he also officially invited Dr. Spanta to visit Azerbaijan in a convenient time.
In his part Dr. Spanta talked about historical and cultural relations between the two countries and reminded about the participation of 50 Azerbaijani soldiers in the framework of Turkish ISAF team in Afghanistan who are working to ensure peace and stability here and added this is a clear indication of their good-well desire for Afghanistan. Minister Spanta said, the two countries can work in the areas of economic development, transfer of energy, exchange of information, and security cooperation’s for facing the danger of terrorism and narcotics.

Press Release

August 23 2008

Arg, Kabul. Hamed Karzai, President of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly condemned the unilateral operation of the Coalition Forces in Shindand district of Herat Province.

Initial reports by the members of the Provincial Council and local security officials of Herat province suggest that at least 70 people, including women and children, were killed during this operation.

The President, expressing his sorrow and regrets for this tragic accident, said that afghan efforts to avoid and stop civilian casualties so far had no desired outcomes and innocent people were still killed during the anti-terrorism operations.  

7.08.2008, A group of Polish journalists met with Mr Ambassador and other diplomats in the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Warsaw.

The signing Ceremony was held in the Conference room of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on July 07, 2008 and the contract was signed between Ministry and the GTR (Grand Technology Resources) Malaysian based Company. National Data Center will be the only place where governmental documents and information will be saved and kept electronically in the country said H. E. Minister Sangin during the signing of this project.

Aug 05, 2008(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul)                                                        New Delhi, August 4, 2008

1. At the invitation of His Excellency Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, His Excellency Mr. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is currently paying a State Visit to India (August 3-5, 2008).

2. During the visit, the two leaders held talks on a range of bilateral issues and regional issues.

The biggest Water Supply project inaugurated in Herat Province in western Afghanistan, This project provides clean drinking water for the 500,000 residents of the province and twelve Million USD has been spent on the project which is funded by the Federal Republic of Germany.

Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi told a press conference in Dushnabe on July 28 that Tajikistan's relations with number of Asian countries focused, first of all, on economic cooperation.

Italy's Foreign Minister said on Monday that this country has a "moral duty" to increase its military role in Afghanistan, even if the Italian public is wary of casualties.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan informed that at  the meeting of heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, a representative of India promised to award one thousand grants to Afghan students.

During the days of July 12-15th, the Minister of Water and Energy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mr Ismail Khan, paid an official visit to Poland at the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Radosław Sikorski.
Minister Khan met with Minister Sikorski, representatives of the Ministry of Economy and representatives of companies of energetic industry and water supplies. During the visit Mr Khan was accompanied by representatives of Afghan Embassy in Warsaw.

Jul 08, 2008 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul)

On Monday, July 7, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan summoned the Pakistan Embassy’s Charge d’Affairs and expressed its excessive protest  for one of the Pakistani ex-parliamentarians, Shah Abdulaziz’s recent remarks, through which he announced “Jihad” against NATO- and U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.

                                Press Release, 7 July 2008
Presidential palace, Kabul - H. E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, strongly condemned today's terrorist attack in Kabul.
Early this morning, a suicide bomber rammed his car full of explosives into the gates of the Indian embassy in Kabul, martyring more than 30 innocent civilians and injuring many more, including women and children.
In his reaction to the incident, the President said, "This abominable act of terrorism is the work of the enemies of Afghanistan's friendship with India and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

The Ministry of Mines of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is offering the Tenders of Mines across the country. After singing a contract of billions USD of copper mine with the Chinese Company MMC and handing over the extraction of gold mine of Takhar Province to a domestic company, the Ministry of Mines of Afghanistan is offering the tenders for coal mines in the provinces of Samangan, Bamyan, Ghazni, Herat and Baghalan.

Jul 01, 2008 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul)

 Following the beheading and killing of two Afghan refugees in the tribal areas of Bajawor, Mr. Asif Durrani the Charge d' Affairs of the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul was summoned to the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mohammad Ehsan Zia, Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, signed 67 development project contracts for the southwestern provinces with private companies and Community Development Councils (CDCs) on 12 June 2008.