Michael Hughes: The U.S. state-building watchdog reported on July 29 that despite Washington investing $3 billion in Afghanistan’s power sector the country still suffers from one of the worst electrification rates in the world. The report, issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), beat around the bush citing issues like “poor project management”
VOA News Ayaz Gul July 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The Afghan government has shown its displeasure over reports that a Taliban delegation visited China, saying Beijing should not provide “a platform” to groups that are involved in the killing of Afghans. Afghan security forces meanwhile have retaken control of a southern district they briefly lost to Taliban
VOA News Ayaz Gul July 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—An international human rights group Sunday demanded authorities in Afghanistan prosecute militia forces linked to a top government official for recent killings and other abuses against civilians in the northern Faryab province. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that its probe into the late June attack
Press TV July 31, 2016 At least two dozen Afghan police officers have been killed in a series of attacks by the Taliban militants in the southern province of Helmand in 48 hours, local officials say. Kareem Atal, the director of Helmand’s provincial council, said on Sunday that the policemen were killed during clashes with
1TV: Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah’s Twitter account was hacked on Saturday and filled with a post that ridiculed the official. The attack happened four days after the official posted tweets stressing on government’s decision on route of a planned power line despite protest. “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery,” the only tweet by the hackers read
Press TV July 30, 2016 An explosion has rocked Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, leaving one civilian dead and five others, including a police force member, wounded. Herat police said the blast took place close to a compound belonging to the Afghan army on Herat’s Minarets Road on Saturday morning. Officials said the explosives were placed
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 30, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials and Taliban sources in Afghanistan confirmed the Islamist insurgency has overrun another district in the southern Helmand province, which borders Pakistan. Taliban fighters staged a surprise assault on Khanashin overnight and fighting was still continuing in parts of the district, a provincial government spokesman told Afghan
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, July 30 (Xinhua) — A total of 11 people lost their lives as the mini-bus they were travelling in plunged into a river in northern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province on Saturday, a local official said. “Twelve people were travelling in a mini-bus in Baharak district of Badakhshan province early today when it suddenly plunged
Khaama Press: The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Netherlands by 36 runs and an inning to claim victory in a 4-day Intercontinental Cup of the International Cricket Council. Afghanistan won the toss and chose to field allowing the Netherlands batsmen to start their inning but were all out after scoring 117 runs. Click here to read more
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | July 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The Afghan government has been unable to help some of its most vulnerable citizens, those displaced internally by violence, due to resistance from provincial governments, lack of capacity in key ministries, and corruption, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. In an audit letter sent