LEMAR takes its name from the Pashto word for sun. Launched in 2006, its mandate is to provide coverage of Pashto, Dari, Urdu and English news. Each bulletin spans local, international, finance, sports and weather news. Current affairs programming on LEMAR includes Kaglechoona, a hard hitting, investigative style program which delves into criminal cases around [...]

The British government plans to improve security across its embassy network and provide for a new embassy in Kabul under a 183 million capital investment programme. An additional funding of 37 million a year by 2010-11 will be used to support London’s counter-radicalisation programmes, addressing weakness in governance, education, civil society, human rights and rule [...]