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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...

Govt Institutions Provide Conflicting Reports on Kabul Attack Government institutions are providing conflicting information about the investigation into the attack on Central Bank employees that killed three people, including former TOLOnews presenter Yama Siawash, on November 7.    Waheed Omer, presidential adviser and head of the Office of Public and Strategic Affairs of the President, on Sunday said that a lot of progress has been made in the probe, but First Vice President Amrullah Saleh last week said that only a limited amount of clues had been found so far.   “A lot of progress ...

Family of Slain Female Afghan Journalist Seeks Justice The family of Malala Maiwand, a presenter at Enekas TV network in Nangarhar who was killed by unknown armed men last week, on Sunday called for further action from the security and legal authorities who are pursuing the case. Late last week security forces arrested two suspects in connection with the attack. Malala’s family said that the security agencies have not made the confessions of the suspects public.  Malala's family said they would like to see the evidence to determine if the suspects are the main perpetrators behind the att...