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January 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: The mayor of a city in eastern Afghanistan faces accusations that he has used his position to embezzle public funds. Afghanistan’s anti-corruption agency, the governor of Logar province, and former employees of the mayor all say they have proof that Ahmad Khan Ulfat acted illegally in a number of separate cases. Full news...
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December 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
U.S. News: Ahmed recalls driving to work through the streets of Kabul when he was stopped by a routine police checkpoint. The 33-year-old native of Kandahar moved to the capital city hoping to improve prospects for the nonprofit business he founded in his home town. He hadn’t yet updated his driver’s license from his old address, knowing that his refusal to pay the usual bribes at the local DMV would relegate his application to a weeks-long wait, if it were processed at all. Full news...
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December 19, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Officials and elected councillors in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province have raised the alarm about illicit arms deliveries to the Taleban. Police, they say, are happily trading away their ammunition to the insurgents they are supposed to be shooting at. "On the basis of evidence in our possession, we can absolutely confirm this,” Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the deputy governor of this southeastern province, told IWPR. Full news...
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December 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Officials and locals on Friday alleged irregularities to the tune of 200,000 USD had been committed in a vocational training project for surrendering insurgents in Syed Karam district of southeastern Paktia province. The latest graft claims in the restive province surface days after Afghanistan was viewed among the world’s most corrupt countries in a survey released by graft watchdog Transparency International (TI). Full news...
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November 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has intentionally paved the ground for illegal mining and smuggling of chromite in central Logar province, officials alleged on Wednesday. Chromite is an industrially important mineral for the production of metallic chromium, used as an alloying ingredient in stainless and tool steels, as well as a refractory material, because it has high heat stability. Full news...
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November 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Traders and importers have combined to hike the price of cooking gas and other fuel for heating as winter begins to bite. Consumers are feeling the pinch of the rivalry between the Association of Oil Importers and the Ghazanfar Group. Corruption at the customs on the border, a hike in taxes and the blocking of Ghazanfar refinery has sent fuel prices zooming. Full news...
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November 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Herat’s provincial authorities led by Governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi are accusing the department of mines of allowing “powerful people” to “loot” the mines. In an exclusive interview the governor told Killid, “The mines department of Herat has no control of the mines at all. There is no real supervision of the extraction, which is being exploited by powerful people.” Full news...
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November 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Integrity Watch Afghanistan on Sunday alleged an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander was illegally extracting chromite in huge quantity over the past year with cooperation from foreign troops in eastern Kunar province. After a year-long investigation, the non-governmental organisation released a report on the unlawful extraction of chromite in the Akhunzadagan village... Full news...
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October 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: U.S. inspectors are on the trail of a successful Afghan businessman they believe has channelled millions of dollars in aid to the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, one of the deadliest insurgent groups in Afghanistan, but still has donor-funded reconstruction contracts around the country. Full news...
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October 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Sayed Gul walked into a small mud brick room in eastern Afghanistan, a bundle wrapped in a shawl on his back. With a flick, he plonked the package onto a threadbare carpet and hundreds of voter cards spilled out. “How many do you want to buy?” he asked with a grin. Full news...
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October 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led military coalition, failing to keep track of hundreds of millions of dollars in vehicles parts purchased for the Afghan National Army or ANA, could not account for 230 million USD in this regard in 2012, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said. Full news...
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September 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: An Independent Media Consortium (IMC) investigation reveals serious administrative corruption in the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR). Findings by the IMC have also implicated Refugees and Repatriation Minister Dr Jamaher Anwary. The minister got UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, to transfer tens of thousands of dollars to the personal accounts of family members and others. Full news...
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September 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Afghanpaper.com (Translated by RAWA): An authentic source at the Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan told our honorary correspondent this morning (Monday) that three government ministers were imprisoned for assaulting a Nepali woman. Ghulam Farooq Wardak, the Education Minister, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, the Minister of Finance, and Wais Barmak, the Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, were all... Full news...
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September 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two leading civil society groups on Monday said their concerns about upcoming elections had increased due to lack of transparent and effective guidelines and the presence of biased commission members. In a joint statement, Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN) and Anti-Corruption Watch Organization said the nation was witness to fraudulent presidential and provincial council elections last time. Full news...
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September 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Afghan exporters have defrauded the government of millions of dollars in income tax over the last four years. An investigation by the Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) reveals a massive undervaluing of export figures by the private sector.* The investigation was conducted on the basis of information provided by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCI), traders, and exporters. Full news...
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September 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Truck drivers from the Bala Murghab district of western Badghis province on Sunday accused highway police of seeking bribes from them. They complained highway police took 2,500 afghanis (45 USD) in bribe from the driver of each truck plying the road and 20 afghanis from each of bus passengers. Full news...
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September 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Times: After spending 12 years and nearly 100 billion USD in rebuilding Afghanistan, the U.S. still lacks a “comprehensive anti-corruption strategy” for its reconstruction activities there, according to a report by the U.S. government watchdog in the country. Full news...
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September 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Fifty years ago, Dost Mohammad’s grandfather had 1,000 sheep grazing on the family’s plot of land on the outskirts of Kunduz City, Afghanistan. The family’s livestock numbers have since decreased significantly, but then, so has the size of their land. “We keep getting pushed further and further back,” said Mohammad. “We’re also having problems bringing our sheep to Badakshan. We will be killed today if we bring our sheep there.” Full news...
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September 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Beast: At first Mahkdoom Raheen seemed refreshingly different from the other ministers and advisers who were chosen by newly-appointed Afghan President Hamid Karzai for his first cabinet in 2002. It was soon after the overthrow of the Taliban, and Raheen was not a powerful warlord with a chilling history of human rights abuses, land-grabbing, and blatant corruption. Full news...
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August 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Some elected public representatives are impeding the execution of public welfare projects in southeastern Paktika province, civil society activists alleged on Friday. Parliamentarians from the province sought their share (percentage) in development funds from construction companies, the Orgun Youth Cultural Society chief claimed. Full news...
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August 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The US government has awarded more than 150m USD (98m GBP) in contracts to companies and individuals in Afghanistan that are known to support the Taliban, according to a US spending watchdog. Multimillion dollar contracts have been given over the past five years to 43 companies working in construction, logistics, road building and IT that have links to the insurgents. Full news...
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July 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Only a fraction of Kabul’s streets are paved properly. The vast majority of roads are nothing but potholes and dirt. Yet contractors regularly overshootroad-building budgets. The Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) investigates the money trail. Kabul Municipality has accused the Turkish-owned Copy International, and three Afghan companies, Hewadwal, Latifi and Quyash Niazi, of inflating road-construction costs. Full news...
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July 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Times: A 3 million USD U.S.-contracted schools project in Afghanistan remains grossly unfinished more than four years after the start of construction because the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold the contractor accountable for the work it has been paid to do, a new report by a U.S. government watchdog says. Full news...
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June 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NBC News: A 70 million USD agricultural aid program in Afghanistan spent millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on tractors that went missing, irrigation pumps that were never used and solar panels that wound up in private homes, according to government investigators. A report released Thursday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blamed the problems on USAID... Full news...
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June 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Bombs have become so common in Afghanistan that the attacks themselves, still less the human costs months and years later, are rarely reported. When a bomb went off at a clinic in Logar, a province south of Kabul, in July 2011, 30 people were killed instantly and at least ten died afterwards as a result of the injuries they sustained. Full news...
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June 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Fiscal Times: The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the work these contractors are doing. Full news...
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May 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: There is overwhelming evidence of a proliferation of poorly constructed, illegal townships across the country with efforts ongoing to execute more housing schemes on usurped lands. An investigation by the Independent Media Consortium (IMC)* reveals there are multiple agencies at work and unable to check the rot. High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption chief Azizullah Ludin says documents of most of townships are fake... Full news...
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May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Beast: The impeachment of Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal, on charges of accusing M.P.s of smuggling, began like any other. Zakhilwal patiently listened to members of Parliament ask their questions—about budget cuts, nepotism in his ministry, and tax evasion by large companies. Full news...
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May 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than 2,000 residents of Dehsabz district on Wednesday staged a violent protest against the no-payment of their land seized by the government, officials said. The two-hour protest erupted at 9am on the Pul-i-Charkhi-Airport road, hurling stones at police and journalists, injuring the deputy police chief, Brig. Gen. Daud Amin, and a photographer of Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: In a speech yesterday at the New American Foundation, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko revealed that he has been under pressure from officials across several departments for publicizing his audits on waste and fraud in the Afghan War. Full news...
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