Ariana: Muhammad Akram Khpalwak has resigned from his positions as Special Representative to President Ashraf Ghani in Political Affairs and Head of High Peace Council Secretariat. In a phone call, Khpalwak confirmed his resignation to Ariana News, adding that he has stepped down due to personal issues. He added that his resignation was accepted by President Ghani
Tolo News: Desperate shopkeepers were on Thursday night trying to save their goods as a fire raged through an electronics market area in Kabul city. The fire started at about 6pm local time and was still not under control by 9pm. The fire first started in Khairkhwah Market Building in Nadir Pashtun Street in Kabul’s PD1
Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 1, 2018 Sibghatullah Mojadedi, Mohammad Mohaqiq, and Mohammad Khan are among Afghanistan’s most prominent onetime hard-line Islamists. But the former warlords’ credentials have been questioned by some Afghans after they attended a celebration marking Chinese communism in Kabul. The three gray-bearded men, clad in traditional Afghan garb, were
1TV: Afghanistan has secured first place among 123 countries on right to information laws.cThat is according to the Halifax-based Centre for Law and Democracy and human rights organization Access Info Europe which published the annual list to mark International Right to Know Day. The rating system uses a 150-point scale to indicate the strength and weaknesses
New York Times: The bay windows in the Bost Hotel’s dining room looked out across the Helmand River. For all the river’s immensity, the current, borne hundreds of miles from up in the Hindu Kush, spoke only in whispers. The air hummed with mosquitoes. Beyond the river, on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of
MOSCOW, September 3 (Sputnik) – The man, who stabbed two people at a railway station in the Netherlands on Friday, was driven by his belief that the Islamic prophet Mohammad has been repeatedly insulted in the country, the country’s Public Prosecution Service said in a statement on Monday. The stabbing attack was reported at Amsterdam’s
1TV: Huma Sultani, who represents Ghazni province in the Lower House, was seen picking up chairs and tables and throwing them out of the shop in Kart-e-Se area of the city on Sunday evening. She even smashed the sweets shop’s glass display counter with a chair. Years ago, she also claimed that Taliban militant group’s leader Mullah
MOSCOW, September 2 (Sputnik) – A military helicopter crashed Sunday in an Afghan military base in the country’s northern province of Balkh, with some people feared to be dead, local media reported. The incident occurred at 7:30 a.m. local time (03:30 GMT), which was confirmed by spokesman for the 209th Shaheen Corps Mohammad Hanif Rezaie,
Ariana: A 65-year-old man allegedly has sold his 18-month-old granddaughter for 70,000 AFN in Balkh province to overcome poverty, but luck wasn’t on his side as a stealer robbed the money while he was on his way to home. Click here to read more (external link).