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.

Kabul, 17 June 2008 --  MoPH-UNFPA programme introduces 14 mobile health units (MHU) during the current year to cover 20 districts in five focus provinces, namely Badakhshan, Bamyan, Daikundi, Fariab and Logar. The MHU would act as a link between the community and the health facility and would ensure that every person, especially all pregnant mothers, living in these 20 districts receive basic health services and facilitate referral wherever required.

 

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.

Jun 17, 2008 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul)
The United Nations Security Council on 16 June released a press statement on holding the "International Conference in Support of Afghanistan".

Jun 14, 2008 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul)

Declaration of the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan issued under the authority of the three co-chairmen, President Sarkozy, President Karzai, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

(Paris, June 12, 2008)

The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the international community met today in Paris to reaffirm their long-term partnership to serve the people of Afghanistan, their security, prosperity and human rights.

May 12, MRRD Kabul -- With the implementation of 28 water supply networks in Spinboldak district of Kandahar province to the end of June, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development will provide 18180 families with clean drinking water.

MFA Kabul, Department of Information and Publication -- "Republic of India is one of the biggest scholarship donors and will provide 500 scholarships annually to Ministry of Higher Education of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan," Said Dr. Mohammad Azam Dadfar, the Minister of Higher Education of Afghanistan to the students granted this year Indian scholarships.