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,
Ariana: According to research conducted by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), President Ashraf Ghani did not win the 2014 Presidential Election based on clean votes… during the second round of the 2014 elections, a large number of fraudulent votes were casted in favor of President Ashraf Ghani in certain provinces where he had fewer
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 17, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has intensified efforts to keep the U.S.-led dialogue with the Afghan Taliban on track by attempting to arrange a meeting between the visiting chief American negotiator and insurgent representatives, highly placed sources told VOA Thursday. These official sources appeared confident about bringing the two sides to
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 12, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A global watchdog demanded Saturday international donors impose sanctions against Afghanistan’s new defense minister, Asadullah Khalid, saying there is “credible evidence” linking him to serious rights abuses. Khalid’s appointment in December was part of a shake-up President Ashraf Ghani ordered amid sustained countrywide battlefield setbacks inflicted on
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
Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 14, 2018 Video footage that appears to show a young man being pushed and then dragged by the collar into a vehicle by President Ashraf Ghani’s presidential bodyguards has sparked online debate in Afghanistan. The video, which was uploaded on social media and was reported by various news
Tolo News: The National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan led by the First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, said that President Ashraf Ghani has requested Dostum to once again support him in the 2019 presidential elections. President Ghani and Vice President Dostum were in one team in 2014 presidential elections. Bashir Ahmad Tahyanj, spokesman for the National Islamic
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 28, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s President, Ashraf Ghani, says his government has “formulated a road map” for prospective peace negotiations with Taliban insurgents to end the 17-year war in the country. Ghani told an international conference on Afghanistan Wednesday in Geneva all the required bodies and mechanisms have been constituted after
Press TV November 22, 2018 Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah says the Taliban militant group is not serious in peace talks aimed at ending hostilities in the war-inflicted country. Abdullah on Wednesday questioned the militant group’s sincerity and said the Taliban had so far shown no intention to seriously engage in the negotiations despite US
Mohammad Habibzada VOA News November 21, 2018 An increase in casualties among Afghan military and police forces has prompted the Afghan government to intensify military campaigns against the Taliban and other militant groups, Afghan security officials say. Last week, Taliban insurgents killed and wounded about 80 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces