France24: Amrullah Saleh, a vice presidential hopeful in Afghanistan’s upcoming polls, narrowly escaped another assassination attempt on Sunday. His survival mirrors that of his country and could be a harbinger of things to come. The 46-year-old Afghan candidate has survived so many assassination attempts that a popular aphorism about Saleh’s “nine lives” has been gaining traction in
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 28, 2018 KABUL — A bomb has targeted the Kabul office of President Ashraf Ghani’s running mate, Amrullah Saleh — wounding the vice presidential candidate on the first day of campaigning for Afghanistan’s September 28 presidential election. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said two people were killed and
Tolo News: Former governor of the northern province of Balkh and CEO of Jamiat-e-Islami party of Afghanistan, Atta Mohammad Noor, says he is ready to join the Taliban if needed to prevent the establishment of a government which comes to power through an unfair and rigged election. In an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, Noor warned
Tolo News: Amrullah Saleh, a vice-presidential candidate for the next elections and former head of the NDS has said that Afghanistan can be an ally to Pakistan but it “will never bow” to it. “What we are communicating to Pakistanis is: We can be your allies, but we will never bow to you,” Saleh said in
Tolo News: Sources said President Ashraf Ghani’s election ticket has been completed and that he will enter the race for 2019 presidential elections in the near future. Sources said Ghani’s ticket will include four individuals. Acting Interior Minister Amrullah Saleh and Second Vice President Sarwar Danish will be Ghani’s running mates, said the sources. The source said Suraya Dalil,
1TV: Amrullah Saleh, a former Afghan intelligence chief who was recently appointed as acting interior minister, on Tuesday vowed that he would be “merciless against criminals and enemies of the country.” “I hope when I leave the post, people would attach two attributes to me: a sincere servant of the people and a merciless minister against
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 23, 2018 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced that Assadullah Khalid, the former head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), as the country’s defense minister and Amrullah Saleh, also a former intelligence chief, as interior minister. Ghani made the announcement in a December 23 decree in which he
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 28, 2018 Afghan officials say at least 10 people have been killed and 19 wounded in an attack that targeted a foreign security contractors’ compound in the capital, Kabul. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said an unknown number of gunmen entered the compound after a car bomb exploded near the
Tolo News: Former chief of the National Directorate of Security Amrullah Saleh said on Tuesday that the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad does not have the authority to talk with Taliban on behalf of the Afghan people. Saleh made the remarks at a gathering in Kapisa province where he voiced disapproval over talks between Khalilzad and Taliban last week in Qatar. Saleh said