Kabul

The European Union delegation in Kabul came into this and hired me to work inside the Ministry of Public Health, to lobby this approach.

"Yes, there are insurgents coming across the border, " he said at the U. S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

And one evening, I was sitting next to a very nice gentleman in Kabul, and he asked what I thought would be good in Afghanistan.

The Taliban bring it up to the front lines from Kabul, and we buy it from them.

Up to 12 people are reported to have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a minibus carrying foreigners near the Afghan capital, Kabul.

He said the ISI also supported an attack on the American Embassy in Kabul two days later.

The move Sunday came as depositors continued to pull their money from the lender, mobbing branches in Kabul and other parts of the country.

The bombing was one of the most deadly in Kabul since the U. S. -led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 .

The American commander in Kabul said he will need the troops for the long term to fight the growing insurgency.

He said he was waiting for the money to come from the government in Kabul.

It had been a hard day for Karzai; suicide bombers and gunmen had attacked an Indian guesthouse in Kabul, killing dozens.

One of the top hotels in the Afghan capital Kabul, the Intercontinental, has come under attack. At least 10 people have been killed.

He said the US believed the Haqqani group was behind a 20-hour gun battle in central Kabul last week.

A spokesman for the movement said the carnage in Kabul was just the beginning.

Mr. Ghafar said he routinely paid bribes to the police who threatened to hinder his passage through Kabul, sometimes several in a day.

S. officials. Even in public, Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Kabul, has said the ISI retains ties with the Taliban.

He had also been a kindergarten teacher in Kabul. He had the perfect combination of skills for this project.

The river Kabul was like a demon, swishing with so much water and overflowing the whole of Nowshera.

His bluntness played badly in Kabul, where Hamid Karzai sometimes refused to talk or eat with him.

Kabul itself, meanwhile, suffered its second rocket attack in less than a week.

Earlier this week a woman with dual UK-South African citizenship was shot dead on her motorbike in Kabul.

Key installations in Kabul and around the country remain on high alert as a result of the assault on the hotel.

President Karzai did not directly refer to reconciliation talks with the Taliban during a speech in Kabul Wednesday.

The spokesman said the rockets came from the eastern city of Kabul, also blamed "enemies of Afghanistan" to launch the attack.

Born in Kabul, the daughter of a high-ranking army officer, she moved to London with her family during the Russian occupation.

He built gardens to remind him of Kabul, but flowers do not do as well in India as in the crisp Afghan air.

The expansion of Afghanistan's government forces, both military and police, has been a much-touted goal of both Washington and Kabul.

NATO said the helicopter 23 in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Kapisa province, northeast of the Arabian race (Alasay) zone crash.

One local Kabul man, Bismallah Ahmadi, said after watching the debate at a restaurant that it was his favorite line of the evening.

Farah also said that all private security companies must move out of the office to go from the capital, Kabul.

27Afghan security men and media members gather around the body of a militant at a building in Kabul on Sept.

Such comments are, on the face of it, nothing new for Mr Karzai, who previously invited the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, to talks in Kabul.

Having visited Helmand, Kandahar and Kabul recently for the third time in just over a year, I found the signs of improvement unmistakable.

After two years of abuse, she fled and sought help at a police station in Kabul.

In a ruthless onslaught in the heart of Kabul, militants attacked a large guesthouse favoured by United Nations workers.

All this has happened since August not in Kabul or Baghdad but in Monterrey in northern Mexico (see article).

They met once in London at the international support conference January 28, twice in Munich, Germany, and three times in Kabul.

The next day, after spending the night in a hut, we set off on the return trip to Kabul.

Afghan officials say five insurgents believed to have been planning attacks in central Kabul have been killed in a gun battle.

a watch vendor works within the confines of his hand - painted pushcart on a street in kabul , afghanistan.

Afghan officials say a suicide bomb blast has rocked a shopping and hotel complex in Kabul, killing at least two people.

Northern Alliance troops will pull out of Kabul, perhaps making way for a UN-sponsored, multi-national force.

It was very strange to see an Afghan National Police officer manning the completely destroyed and abandoned Darul Laman Palace in Kabul.

The central-bank official said several options were being discussed to recover the funds that are likely to be pumped into Kabul Bank.

At least 166 people were killed in an avalanche in the Salang Pass, north of Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Kabul, Afghanistan: A fortune teller listens to a woman as another awaits her turn. Fortune telling was banned under the Taliban regime.

TWO weeks back in Kabul the world's foreign ministers demonstrated that they cannot agree on a solution to Afghanistan's trouble and strife.

Light and medium industry, like this metal shop in the Kabul suburbs, once held great promise for Afghanistan's economy.

Officials in the town would not comment on the fighting and the Interior Ministry in Kabul said it was checking the reports.

'The map of Afghanistan, for example, shows a country dominated by Kabul and a few other urban centres, ' he said.

But Kabul's police chief General Ayub and a senior intelligence official told the BBC this was not the government's plan.

Trials are taking place in the restive province of Wardak, south of Kabul, where a total of 1, 200 AP3 volunteers are to be deployed.

I negotiated with Saddam's diplomats at the U. N. Later , I traveled to Kabul and served in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban .

Nor did they think it necessary to tell their parents they were going to Kabul.

A refugee holds up his food voucher as he battles others at a World Food Program supply truck in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Explosions and gunfire have left at least seventeen people dead in the Afghan capital - Kabul.

There has to be a resolution for the free versus pay debate otherwise we cannot afford to pay for things like news bureaus in Kabul.

A man grooms himself in a "Hamam" or public bath, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010.

The US ambassador in Kabul has written to the White House arguing against sending thousands more American troops to Afghanistan.

Frequented by foreigners, the guest house is in a central area of Kabul that had previously been considered relatively secure.

And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood.

Last week, Taliban gunmen killed five U. N. workers in an attack on an international guest house in the capital, Kabul.

His friends could not stand the heat, and went back to Kabul.

Clinton will join foreign ministers from dozens of countries from around the world including neighboring Iran at the Kabul conference.

Officials in Kabul say it may be a chance to reset the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Afghanistan.

A fruit vendor holds lemons in his hands along a busy shopping street on January 27, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Shafaq is poised to finish at the top of his class which should guarantee him the job he most wants a teaching post at Kabul University.

It was once a few feet away from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at his palace in Kabul.

Much of that land has been sold and developed, rendering much of Kabul's property in the hands of unknown owners.

This user is shooting up in the ruins of the old city of Kabul.

Although Kabul took a pasting this time, it remains, along with all the country's big urban areas, emphatically under government control.

The Strategic Partnership Agreement that President Karzai and I signed in Kabul ensures that as Afghans stand up they will not stand alone.

Thousands attended Karzai's rally in Kabul Thursday in which he claimed credit for opening girls' schools.

The attack shattered an eerie peace in Kabul, that had held in the run-up to the election.

Much of Kabul was left in disrepair, damaged by years of fighting and then neglected.

August 19, 2011: A wounded Afghan policeman is carried away from the site of an attack on offices belonging to the British Council in Kabul.

The first concerns how not be blown up when in Kabul, and comes courtesy of an American TV journalist who was on the course with us.

Our correspondent in Kabul said local officials had told him they saw the bodies of about 20 women and children in two trucks.

Yet once Soviet forces had left, they could do little more than defend Kabul and a few other cities.

"After the exhibition they will return to the National Museum of Kabul, " says Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.

Suicide bombers in the Afghan capital Kabul have attacked a police station close to the presidential palace. Nine people were killed.

To feed and reward his huge retinue, he took 30, 000 donkey-loads of grain from Kabul and Ghazni.

A few feet away, a bronze Eros looks bemused at the fact that he was exhumed north of Kabul instead of in Rome.

During the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, Kabul, has avoided much of the violence that the rest of the country has endured.

The leaked war logs show that Task Force 373 uses at least three bases in Afghanistan, in Kabul, Kandahar and Khost.

During a news conference in Kabul, Ansari showed a video of one of the attackers identified as a Pakistani named Yassar.

On any morning, you can stand on the steps of the Secondary Courthouse in downtown Kabul and listen to the Afghans as they step outside.

Twelve-year-old Tarana Akbari is kissed by her mother Bibi Hava, in their living room of their home in Kabul on December 10, 2011.

Afghanistan quickly blamed Pakistan, India's rival for the deadliest blast in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

In Kabul, at least, suicide bombs apparently almost always go off early in the morning.

Twelve-year-old Tarana Akbari is kissed by her mother Bibi Hava, in their living room of their home in Kabul on December 10, 2011.

Afghanistan quickly blamed Pakistan, India's rival for the deadliest blast in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

In Kabul, at least, suicide bombs apparently almost always go off early in the morning.

Mr Fitrat insisted that Kabul Bank was solvent and customers were able to withdraw money as usual.

"He says someday we'll have television in Kabul, " I said.

At least 27 people died in attacks on three government buildings in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.

Afghan police officers shot a local driver who tried to speed through their checkpoint on a country road in Ghazni Province south of Kabul.

An Afghan girl touches her mother's artificial leg the ICRC Ali Abad Orthopaedic centre in Kabul November 12, 2009.

AN OVERNIGHT flight from Washington to Kabul is a lot of travelling for a 25-minute meeting with a man you don't particularly like.

Sherzad said people used to hold small fashion shows in Kabul before the war begin in the late 1970s.

Another detention facility was reportedly a former brickfactory, just north of Kabul, known as the Salt Pit.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have attacked government buildings south of the capital Kabul, just ten days before nationwide elections.

A US military spokesman in Kabul condemned the video as propaganda and a breach of the rules of war.

Turkey, Turkmenistan and Qatar have all offered to host such an office, Afghan and western officials in Kabul have told the Guardian.

A bombing in Kabul near the Indian embassy killed at least 12 people.

After capturing four pickup trucks from the Afghan National Army, the Taliban took them to Kabul to be used in suicide bombings.

In the Observer magazine this week, Shahla Farid, a Kabul-based lawyer, speaks of her experience defending women's rights.

Kabul seems like the capital of an occupied country.

Initially, the capital of international forces responsible for ensuring the security of Kabul and its surrounding areas.

Police in Afghanistan say a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai has been killed in an attack on his home in the capital Kabul.

The DHL office is located at a busy intersection across from the Iranian Embassy, in an upscale section of Kabul.

The Kyrgyz complain about a lack of attention from Kabul. They say food, running water and electricity are scarce in the Pamirs.

In Kabul aformer government official allowed himself to be interviewed, knowing that ifhe was found out, he and his family would be killed .

A follow-up conference may take place in Kabul, the Afghan capital, in the spring.

A modern, glass-wrapped hotel rises behind the ruins of a war-ravaged building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Kabul government's concessions went so far as to relinquish control over the judicial system to the mullahs.

Two years ago, TriVision reopened their printing business in Kabul, and all printing is now done in-country.

The Taliban say one of their suicide bombers carried out this devastating attack in the centre of the city of Mehtar Lam, east of Kabul.

A powerful suicide blast in Kabul, Afghan, left at least 12 people dead and injured 83 others Thursday morning, Xinhua reported.

Sarobi hydro-power plant on Kabul River is one of the country's foremost power stations.

Afghanistan's intelligence chief Saeed Ansari says the men were arrested during the past month from several different locations in Kabul.

It is no wonder that one of the first things the Taliban did upon entering Kabul was to shut down the Bollywood video rental stores.

36An orthopedic technician adjusts a prosthetic leg for a war amputee at an International Committee of the Red Cross center in Kabul.

President Karzai told reporters in Kabul Monday that Iran has given his office up to $975, 000 for government expenses.

My first contact with the Taliban came in 1996, when I was the only correspondent travelling with them when they took Kabul.

She will attend the Kabul conference aimed at shoring up the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai.

An Afghan policeman fires into the air during clashes with protesters following Friday prayers in Kabul.

In 1979, Soviet troops invaded Kabul, instigating a bloody nine-year conflict with the U. S. - and British-backed mujahideen.

But the Taliban began as a Pushtun movement, rural and primitive, supported from neighbouring Pakistan, which then headed to Kabul.

Around 7 a. m. , mortar shells whistled over the center of Kabul before slamming into the grounds of the presidential palace.

Kai Eide, the United Nations envoy in Kabul, says "the time for strategic debate must come to an end" ; now it's time for implementation.

Sporadic attacks on the security forces and the police have grown more frequent over the years, and have also crept closer to Kabul.

Cheney was staying at the base after his Monday meeting in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai was postponed due to bad weather.

The interior ministry would not take calls from the Guardian to confirm a rocket attack in Kabul.

There is media speculation in Washington that Obama may divert from his Asian trip to Kabul to confront Karzai.

A local official said on condition of anonymity, suicide bomber entered a supermarket in downtown Kabul when a bomb blew himself up.

The Kabul government has claimed in recent weeks to have eradicated more poppy crops so far this year than in all of 2006.

Mr Karzai depends on international support for his survival, so is he going completely mad? Rumour in Kabul suggests that yes, he might be.

An Afghan policeman looks at the bodies of militants in a building they had occupied in their attack on the US Embassy in Kabul.

These really are actual shipping containers, not the purpose-built housing units en vogue in Baghdad and Kabul.

Marco Torres mourns three men in his squad, who were killed in a road ambush near Kabul, Afghanistan.

So Habibi decided to move to Kabul where attitudes toward women are not as harsh.

An injured woman is escorted out of "Finest" supermarket in central Kabul after the suicide attack.

The planned Quran-burning by the small Florida church sparked protests this week by several-hundred Afghans in Kabul.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon here, a suicide car bomb exploded on the main road out of Kabul towards Jalalabad.

A deadly bombing rip ped through Kabul's crowded streets just as people were getting to work this morning.

The shocking attack in Kabul adds to the gathering impression that Afghanistan is an irredeemable mess.

A marine is sworn in by the Defense Secretary during an enlistment at the American Embassy in Kabul.

Afghan women work on sewing machines as they produce boots for Afghan National Police officials in a factory in Kabul on March 1.

The plane, carrying more than 200 passengers including five Chinese, was on a maiden Kam Air flight from Kabul to Urumqi, officials said.

More spectacular attacks in Kabul must be expected, and perhaps a greater effort to threaten Kandahar, the second-largest city.

plans to hold a second meeting in Kabul this spring may be in doubt.

But he added that any moves by individual allies must be coordinated with the NATO command in Kabul.

Many Americans feel queasy about propping up a regime in Kabul that has put warlords in charge of several provinces.

Hundreds of thousands of street-children fill Kabul's bazaars and traffic intersections.

In Kabul a 26-year-old handyman called Jamshed speaks for many compatriots when he lists the pros and cons of the new Western-imposed order.

The dual British-South African national was gunned down as she walked to work in a Kabul suburb.

China built pipelines across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and began mining for copper south of Kabul.

Kabul police spokesman confirmed the explosion Harsh Matt's news, but he refused to disclose the specific figures of casualties.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials in Kabul said they had no information to suggest that Mullah Omar was dead.

Babur was ambitious, and his dominion in Kabul was limited by the Afghans' insubordination.

Afghan boys play with a soccer ball against the backdrop of newly constructed residential apartments in Kabul Afghanistan June 21 2011.

Preliminary results are expected to be announced in Kabul on Saturday.

The first, Mr. Ghani said, was his attempt to impose order on Kabul's chaotic system of private property rights.

Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington, and Matthew Rosenberg from Kabul, Afghanistan.

The book even making its way to the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, with a likely audience of diplomats and journalists.

"In seven years, Karzai has given us no jobs, no factories and outside Kabul there is no security, " said Abdul Raouf, a Tajik carpenter.

In this picture, Afghan National Army officers march during a graduation ceremony at a military training centre in Kabul.

The two countries share a long and porous border and relations between Kabul and Islamabad have been strained in recent years.

As almost his first campaign appearance in Kabul, ahead of presidential and provincial elections due on August 20th, this was underwhelming.

Kabul has refused to free jailed Taliban militants, saying that would encourage more kidnappings.

If the elections simply ratify the status quoin Kabul, the disconnect between central and local governance will likely continue.

Then, classified cables sent from Kabul by Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and opposing McChrystal's analysis appeared in the Washington Post.

He stands at the gate of Kabul University in a red sweater black jeans and tinted prescription glasses.

Naderi's gold mine, in Baghlan province, is only 50 miles from Kabul as the crow flies.

U. S. military officials in Kabul say they believe the air strike hit its intended target, a group of militants.

Pakistan's basic demand is that any future regime in Kabul must be Pakistan-friendly, by which it means not too close to India.

President Karzai told religious leaders in Kabul that if Afghanistan wanted to pursue peace talks, its only dialogue partner was Pakistan.

What is more, Kabul's crack anti-terrorism unit is at last becoming a force to be reckoned with.

Kabul's police chief owns a mansion, which, with its fountain and ornate Greek columns, reportedly rents for $11, 000 per month.

Today he is a contractor for M. C. C. , building the Aynak mine's electric fence, blast wall, workers' dormitories and a road to Kabul.

PROCESSION IN KABUL: Afghan Shi'ite Muslims flagellated themselves with chains during an Ashura procession in Kabul Thursday.

America's envoy in Kabul wrote to the president opposing a troop surge, until Mr Karzai can prove he has tackled corruption.

Despite the Taliban's claims, it's been difficult to find independent confirmation of the number of civilian death in Kabul.

Clothing boutiques like these were a familiar feature in Kabul during my childhood.

One consequence of the guesthouse attack in Kabul may be the withdrawal of some UN staff from dangerous areas.

Mr. Petraeus arrived in Kabul Friday to take a command( about) of the 140000 American and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Next, the provinces around Kabul should be cleared of the Taliban, so aid agencies can operate.

The latest victim was a 29-year-old pregnant woman who died in a Kabul hospital, the authorities said.

Abdullah said at a press conference held In kabul: "As far as we know, Osama bIn Laden and his friend Omar are unfortunately still alive. "

Hundreds of diplomatic cables from the American embassy in Kabul say corruption exists in every level of government in Afghanistan.

Kabul Bank was a bastion of the northern, Tajik establishment.

If anything, the Taliban have become bolder, staging more ambitious attacks and extending the insurgency to the gates of Kabul.

But it is not hearts and minds in Kabul and Kandahar that most preoccupy the PM now, but hearts and minds much closer to home.

Obama spoke of his recent visit to Kabul to ink a long term arrangement with Afghanistan.

A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by vehicles in Panjshir province, north of Kabul September , .

He too fled three years later as waves of Islamist rebels, formerly armed by the US, hammered at the gates of Kabul.

An Afghan barber watches near the site where suicide bombers attacked the entrance to a guesthouse in Kabul on August 10, 2010.

An elderly man is lit by the fading sun at the end of the day at a tea shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept.

When the world's foreign ministers gather for a conference in Kabul in July, both main national-security posts may well be vacant.

AT A taxi-rank on the southern edge of Kabul, drivers lounged against dusty car bonnets and held a grim conversation.

He talked of the neighbouring states doing more to forge a "political and military partnership" with Kabul.

While many welcome the news of bin Laden's death, some residents of Kabul and beyond are left with little to celebrate.

Reports of the quake reached Kabul two days later, and details were still emerging Sunday.

The Washington Post reported last week that the central bank had taken control of Kabul Bank, forcing its top two managers to resign.

Recently the two sides resolved another contentious issue when they signed a deal transferring Afghan detainees to Kabul's custody.

Demonstrations were also held near the Danish diplomatic offices in Kabul.

But at a news conference in Kabul, Hamidzada refused to directly blame Pakistan in the bombing targeting its historical rival India.

As the mujahideen converged on Kabul in April 1992, Najibullah was forced to seek refuge in a U. N. compound.

Polished toenails might now peek out from burqas on Kabul streets, but the Afghan public continues to challenge any slight against Islam.

It was a white Christmas for US troops in Afghanistan as more than 6 inches of snow fell near Kabul.

Soldiers from the Nato-led force, Isaf, hold flags during a change of command ceremony at their headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

23Afghan police visit a building that Taliban militants had taken over during a 20-hour raid in the heart of Kabul.

But in 1979 he was in Kabul when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and this was a stroke of luck.

There have been no bombings in Kabul for months, and reconstruction teams are again active in the south.

In Afghanistan the Taliban killed 12 people when they stormed the British Council compound in Kabul.

Afghans carry balloons to sell, as they walk toward the Sakhi Shrine for new year's ceremonies in Kabul on March 21.

Other traders buy at Kabul shopping centers that specialize in customers from Northern Alliance territory.

A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 141.

When I visit Kabul today, it is only the fruit bazaars that still look the same.

General McChrystal gets two PowerPoint briefings in Kabul per day, plus three more during the week.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has survived an assault by Taliban militants on a military parade in Kabul.

With the end of the cold war and the fall of the communist government in Kabul, the country fell into civil war.

Prime Minister Gilani's trip to Kabul included meetings with Hamid Karzai and Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak.

THE Mujahideen Day parade in Kabul, at the weekend, was supposed to show Afghanistan's new, Western-trained, armed forces coming of age.

They were returning to Kabul after a trip to Nuristan province to provide medical care and supplies.

Mohammad, who lost his leg in a blast in Kabul and his $1, 000 dollar opium crop to these police, still has six children to feed.

The residents of Kabul again came under heavy bombardment in the early hours of morning.

Afghans descend a mountain after watching the rising of holy mace in Sakhi Shrine on the occasion of Nowruz, a new year ceremony, in Kabul.

An Afghan policewoman has shot dead a US military adviser inside Kabul police headquarters, Afghan officials say.

President Karzai spoke at a joint news conference in Kabul with U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Larijani met with Western parliamentary leaders in Geneva, while Muttaqi addressed an international conference on Afghanistan in Kabul.

Top al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama Bin Laden, preferred it to the country's political capital, Kabul.

Children in Kabul fly "Peace kites" adorned with doves and olive branches on International Day of Peace day in Afghanistan.

Worse, the insurgents appear to be operating closer to Kabul.

General McChrystal's tiny headquarters in Kabul took on a very different feel.

all it needs is a small contingent to protect Kabul, and some special forces and bombers to deal with any returning al-Qaeda fighters.

"I have not taken this decision easily, " Mr Abdullah said in an emotional speech to supporters gathered in a large tent in Kabul.

Many of the recovered items are on display in the traveling exhibition "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul. "

NATO said in a statement that the crash occurred about 16 miles (30 kilometers) east of the Kabul International Airport.

Despite the political changes, many women in Kabul remain too frightened to speak on camera.

In Kabul one frond is known as Little Afghanistan because so many of the country's political and business elite have set up there.

So, too, were record stores, bringing the rhythm and energy of the Western world to Kabul teenagers.

Coming upstream from India along the Cophen, the traveler's road forked some fifty kilometers east of modern Kabul.

26A soldier, part of the coalition forces, pauses during a gun battle with Taliban militants in a building in Kabul on Sept.

The previous May, riots had spread across Kabul after a US military truck with faulty brakes careered into traffic, killing one man.

Yaseen's girls now attend school in Kabul, no longer restricted by the Taliban's authoritarian rule.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed the shooting at a press conference in Kabul.

U. S Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday.

A doctor at Kabul's military hospital said that three soldiers had been killed.