Corruption in Afghanistan is a widespread and growing problem in Afghan society. Afghanistan ranks 174 from 176 in Transparency International’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index. (North Korea and Somalia were ranked as equally corrupt.) One of the recent major corrupt cases was the 2010-13 Kabul …

An independent Afghan anti-corruption body warned Wednesday that nepotism plays a critical role in getting a job as a diplomat in the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.

KABUL, Afghanistan – An independent Afghan anti-corruption body says that nepotism plays a critical role in getting a job as a diplomat in the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.

Afghan War News > General Info > Corruption in Afghanistan. Corruption in Afghanistan “Corruption is the existential, strategic threat to Afghanistan”.

The much-heralded four-day visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to the United States was a bust. Far from a new beginning, all this week’s Obama-Karzai summit delivered was more of the same: renewed American commitments repaid with empty rhetoric from the Afghan president.

KABUL, Afghanistan — An independent Afghan anti-corruption body lashed out at the government on Wednesday, saying that nepotism plays a critical role in getting a job as a diplomat in the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.

“Our government is weak and ineffective in comparison to other governments, we’ve just begun … But the big corruption, the hundreds of millions of dollars of corruption, it was not Afghan.

It’s now official: Afghanistan ranks as one of the three most corrupt nations on Earth — splitting the crown with Somalia and North Korea, according to Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Rampant corruption in Afghanistan could spell disaster for America’s reconstruction efforts after more than a decade of war in the Central Asian country, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

April 30 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government “created an environment that fostered corruption” in Afghanistan by supporting warlords, relying on private trucking contracts and providing billions of dollars in aid, according to a previously undisclosed Pentagon report.

When President Obama met top NATO officials in Brussels on March 26, he publicly expressed renewed optimism that America’s estimated $120 billion effort to reconstruct Afghanistan will leave behind “a stable and secure country that serves the prosperity and the security of the …

The progress made by Afghan forces in taking the security lead from allied troops has been offset by Afghanistan’s deep-rooted climate of corruption that threatens to derail efforts to leave behind a fledgling democracy capable of holding off the Taliban, the Pentagon said Tuesday in …