Ariana: “Abdullah has been given three chances, this time, it is better for him to move forward based on a principle set for him by Jamiat-e-Islami party,” Ismail Khan said. Speaking to Ariana News, Ismail Khan also criticized the National Unity Government – describing it as “kindergarten”. He said sidelining the jihadi figures have been the
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: Hekmat Khalil Karzai, Deputy Foreign Minister stepped down from his post on Wednesday morning citing ‘differences on foreign policies’ with the leadership of the national unity government..there are reports that Karzai will run in the upcoming Presidential Elections, but he has not mentioned this in his resignation letter. Click here to read more (external
Eisa Khan Ayoob Ayoobi via The Globe Post: The National “Unity” Government (NUG) was formed through a power-sharing deal to harmonize and protect the society. But in reality, it has emerged as a tribal monocracy and just a facade, plagued by disunity and ethnonationalism. As the head of NUG, Ashraf Ghani, since his illegitimate rise to power,
Tolo News: A number of Afghanistan’s major political parties and movements on Tuesday accused government of planning a “massive fraud and vote rigging” in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20. The parties also claimed that government wants to have its favorite in the parliament. The political parties threatened to close offices of the Independent
Tolo News: In a book named Every Day Is Extra written by John Kerry, who was engaged in [the] establishment of [the] NUG, Kerry has written that for the first time the establishment of NUG was suggested by President Ashraf Ghani. “Ghani was a west-supporter nationalist Pashtun and technocratic words were coming out of his mouth.
Ariana: It has been eight years since the Afghan government begun collecting the debt of the old Kabul Bank which collapsed in 2010. During former President Hamid Karzai’s tenure, $370 million of the bank’s debt was collected by the government from the overall debt of $987 million. However, since the opening of the Kabul Bank’s case,
Ariana: Atta Mohammad Noor, the former governor of Balkh province and CEO of Jamiat-e-Islami party on Tuesday warned that if transparency of the upcoming elections was not guaranteed, they would boycott the elections and would announce an interim government. Addressing at an Eid ceremony in Mazar-e-Sharif city, Noor said the political parties have set a two-week
Tolo News: Former US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan C. Crocker has said that peace talks between representatives of the Taliban and US officials in Qatar further undermines the credibility of the Afghan government. This comes in the wake of reports that US officials met with Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the possibility of peace
Tolo News: Angry relatives questioned government’s ability to keep the people safe and asked how insurgents breach secure areas such as mosques? “Who should we complain to? No one was here to help us. There were no ambulances. This is not a government, this is a corrupt government,” one resident said. “Government is involved in this