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Daily Times * Pakistani special envoy to visit Kabul on April 25-26 * Pakistan-Afghan-Turkey trilateral meet on Friday April 22, 2021 Pakistan said on Wednesday that the meeting on Afghanistan would be an important opportunity for the Afghans to make progress towards a negotiated political settlement. Remarks by Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, came after Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced Tuesday that an international conference on Afghanistan peace process was postponed to after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “We decided to pos...

Govt Spent $64M Over Budget From Code 91: MPs The Afghan government has spent Afs5 billion ($64.8 million) more than the allocated budget for Code 91 funds in three fiscal years, according to information provided by the finance and budget committee of the parliament. Code 91 is an emergency budgetary unit, and its spending has been under scrutiny by critics.  At least Afs3 billion ($38.9 million) has been spent through Code 91 funds during former acting finance minister Mohammad Humayun Qayoumi’s leadership, something that has raised questions.   According to the details provided by the...

President’s Adviser Defends Use of Code 91 Funds December 15,2020 KABUL - Waheed Omer, presidential adviser and head of the Office of Public and Strategic Affairs of the President, in response to a media report last week listing his office's receipt of Afs30 million ($392,000) of Code 91 funds, said the amount was part of the government’s allocation for his office.  He said if someone calls the spending of the amount "embezzlement" and "corruption" it will cause suffering for the hard-working employees of his office, who are all "supporters of families." Omer said that h...

Lawmakers Threaten to Drop Code 91 from Next Year's Budget Following criticism about the spending of the Code 91 budgetary unit’s fund by the government, the financial and budget committee of the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan parliament, on Monday threatened to not allocate money for the emergency code funds in the next fiscal year’s budget plan.   The funds for Code 91 are allocated from the national budget every year.    A report published last week by Etilaatroz newspaper states that over Afs2 billion ($25.9 million) from the government's emergency fund known as Code...