Minister of Interior Mohammad Hanif Atmar of Afghanistan
In 2002 Haneef Atmar was invited to join the Transitional Government as the Minister of Rural Rehabilitation Development and was confirmed with the same portfolio in the cabinet of the newly elected President Karzai in December 2004.
In May 2006 Haneef Atmar was sworn in as the Minister of Education after being approved by an overwhelming majority of the National Assembly.
Haneef Atmar is the author of many publications, including Institutional Development of Non-governmental Organizations in Developing Countries and From Rhetoric to Reality, both published in the UK.
Atmar has authored many books, including Development of Non-Governmental Organizations in Developing Countries and From Rhetoric to Reality, both published in the UK.
Atmar is fluent in Dari, Pashto, English and Urdu.
Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar is tipped by some to be a possible presidential candidate, and Biden's visit with him was seen by some observers as a.
Kabul -- Afghan Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar says US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden told him that he will do everything possible to support.
Afghan Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said on 24 October that the crimes committed in Afghanistan have political support.
education minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar has announced in a radio interview that 62 schools were burned down by the enemies of Afghanistan during the first.
President Karzai brought changes to the cabinet one and a half months ago when Mohammad Hanif Atmar was appointed Minister of Interior, Ghulam Farooq Wardak.
In January, education minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks spiked in the past year in a campaign.
Organizations in Developing Countries and From Rhetoric to Reality, both published in the UK.
Text of article in Dari, "Secret operation for the domination of illiteracy", published by Afghan independent secular daily newspaper Hasht-e Sobh on 28 July Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar has announced in a radio interview that 62 schools were burned down by the enemies of Afghanistan during the first four months of the current year.
Mr Atmar had earlier spoken of Afghanizing the war against armed opposition groups of the government of Afghanistan.
Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the answer lay in what he called the "Afghanisation" of security.
BRUSSELS -- Afghan Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar says he is ready to start radical reforms in his country.
Atmar said that all Afghan citizens should be equal before the law and the first step in the real reforms is to clean up the police by fighting corruption.
Atmar was named interior minister less than two months ago.
Afghan Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar says the US government will provide special computers with installed Internet facilities for Afghan students.
Afghan Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar says the US government has provided 5,000 computers to the Ministry of Education.
Atmar says the computer is one of the school subjects now.
Atmar said the NSP had an implementation framework that included a methodology for providing direct financing to communities; transparent election procedures for community institutions; and community management of reconstruction and development.
While Atmar remained confident that the multimillion dollar project would not face funding problems, as many donors, including the World Bank, had shown interest in supporting the programme, he maintained that security would remain a key challenge for the nationwide undertaking.
Atmar said the Taliban's use of schools would shift their terrorist training centres from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
The Taliban strategy is deliberate: "to close these schools down so that the children and primarily the teenagers that are going to the schools — the boys — have no other option but to join the Taliban," Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said in an interview Tuesday.
More than half of Afghan children do not have facilities to go to school, while 60 percent of those enrolled study under tents, in the shade of walls and trees or in some cases, under the hot sun, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said in a speech marking Education Day.
In a sign of hope, Atmar said 1,100 schools are being constructed or are planned, and the ministry expects 800,000 new students to enroll in the current school year.
Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said Afghanistan is building a "modern system of madrassas" offering a broad-based Islamic education.
Atmar said the Afghan government has asked international military construction teams to help build madrassas.
Atmar said militants destroyed 98 schools and forced 590 more to close in the past year, denying over 300,000 children the opportunity to go to school.
Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said Afghanistan is making considerable progress in building a modern system of madrassas where children will receive a broad-based, Islamic education.
In calling for more such schools, Atmar said Afghan parents do not want their children to be taught in hate madrassas outside the country.
Atmar said the government has asked international military construction teams to help build religious schools in the hopes that Afghan students wont leave Afghanistan.
Atmar said that militants destroyed 98 schools and forced the closure of 590 schools in the last year, denying over 300,000 children the opportunity to go to school.
Speaking on the occasion, Atmar said the projects would be completed at the cost of 2.
What has been done in Khost is simply amazing," Minister of Education Mohammad Hanif Atmar said in his visit to the province.
In January, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks spiked in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia.
Out of 400 schools which had been shut down due to Taliban-related insurgency in Afghanistan's southern region, some 50 have been reopened, the country's Minister for Education Mohammad Hanif Atmar said Tuesday.
Atmar said 1,100 schools were being constructed or were planned, and the ministry expected 800,000 new students to enroll in this school year.
Atmar said it was now the governments ethical responsibility to offer a tolerant and modern Islamic education, as many parents wanted religious schooling for their children.
The planned schools, which Atmar said should initially accommodate up to 50,000 children, are to offer 40 per cent religious education, 40 per cent general education and 20 per cent computer science and foreign languages.
Mohammad Hanif Atmar was born in Laghman.
Atmar said he hopes soon to provide housing and food for these students.
Atmar said 147 students and teachers have been killed in Taliban attacks since mid-March, compared with 46 in the previous year.