Ayaz Gul VOA News November 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Russia said Monday the Taliban has secretly held 10 rounds of talks with the United States, other than the officially announced recent contact between the two sides in Qatar on how to end the war in Afghanistan. There have been only two publicly known meetings U.S. officials
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 12, 2018 Dozens of people have been killed in violence across Afghanistan, including in a suicide bombing in Kabul targeting a protest by members of the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority, officials say. The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the suicide blast on November 12 that killed at
Ariana: As the politicians, parties, and coalition have stepped up to form their election tickets, President Ghani has revealed a key member of his team for next year’s presidential vote. Recently, Ghani visited Daikundi province where he announced that the current Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish will be part of his election ticket for the
1TV: Russia said on Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a delegation of peace officials to a multinational conference in Moscow on coming Friday that will be attended also by the Taliban. The meeting was previously postponed by Russia after the Afghan government turned down the invitation on the grounds that peace
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani has revealed he is seeking re-election next year to “finish the job” of bringing an end to the 17-year war, Bloomberg quoted the president in a report on Thursday. According to Bloomberg report, President Ghani said the Taliban and other terrorist groups are trying “to turn our beautiful country into a
Ariana: A number of politicians say President Ashraf Ghani is already campaigning for the upcoming presidential elections, urging him to respect people’s right and the rule of law in the country. The politicians stressed that the president’s trip to provinces has been part of his election campaign. “These trips are more of a campaign for the
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal October 24, 2018 Islamabad has dismissed the Afghan president’s “baseless and unfounded” allegations that last week’s killing of a powerful provincial police chief in southern Afghanistan was planned in Pakistan. “No hard evidence or intelligence related information has been shared to date with Pakistan to substantiate such claims,” the Foreign Office said
Ariana: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says last week’s shooting in Kandahar which killed the provincial police chief Gen. Raziq was planned in Pakistan, asking the country to hand over the plotters of the attack to Kabul. As a move to honor the general, Ghani named a police academy in the province to General Raziq and stressed that
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 22, 2018 Senior Afghan officials have praised voters who cast ballots in weekend parliamentary elections that were plagued by violence and organizational problems, saying the turnout shows that Afghans are rejecting the ideology of Taliban militants. “The Taliban wanted to build a stream of blood, but the Taliban was defeated
Tolo News: Immediately after the completion of the voting process in Afghanistan’s much-awaited parliamentary elections, President Ashraf Ghani sent out a message thanking security forces and members of the public for not having surrendered to insurgents. He said that the completion of the election process had sent a clear message to the Taliban that the Afghan