Monthly Archives: May 2018
Ending polio in Afghanistan: Big plan, small details
Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Every child needs to be vaccinated to protect them from poliovirus. To achieve this, detailed plans are prepared for vaccination teams. The aim is to find each child under 5 years of age – in Afghanistan, that is around 10 million altogether – and to reach them with vaccines. Click here to
Dostum-ARG Relations On The Mend: First VP’s Office
Tolo News: Office of President Ashraf Ghani’s First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum on Thursday said that relations between Dostum and the Presidential Palace (ARG) were improving, but officials gave no details about when Dostum would return to Kabul. Members of the public meanwhile said that Dostum has the right to return to his country –
CE hands over keys to apartments to 27 Afghan footballers
1TV: The apartments had been ordered by the then President Hamid Karzai after the team won first international football title South Asian Football Federation Championship in 2013. Click here to read more (external link). Other Sports News Cricket Sunrisers To Get 2nd Chance At Finals Against Kolkata Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan issues warning for India as leg-spinner
Shafie Ayar: US, Britain, and Pakistan Support Taliban and ISIS, not Iran
Alaska jail sued for feeding Muslims pork, starving them in Ramadan
Press TV May 23, 2018 Muslim inmates at a jail in the US state of Alaska are being “starved” and given pork products during Ramadan, a new lawsuit claims. For one thing, Muslim prisoners are given food with substantially lower calories compared to other inmates, said the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the federal
Musharraf: US ‘Ditches’ Pakistan
VOA News | May 23, 2018: This week Greta looks at the US relationship with Pakistan and what it means for the US mission in Afghanistan and elsewhere in South Asia. Former Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf says Pakistan has been a “most loyal ally” of the United States, but the U.S. “ditches” Pakistan when it’s
1TV Afghanistan Dari News May 23, 2018
Ghani Threatened IEC Members to Resign: Dawlati
Ariana: Speaking at a debate program in Ariananews TV, Maozullah Dawlati (Deputy of Independent Election Commission (IEC),) revealed the intervention of President Ghani in election commission’s affairs. “President Ghani in [the] presence of U.S. ambassador and UN envoy for Afghanistan has threatened those IEC members who were opposed to attaching stickers on copy of ID cards,” Dawlati
Afghans complete rare silk Quran
Press TV May 23, 2018 One of the only Qurans ever made from silk fabric has been completed in Afghanistan — a feat its creators hope will help preserve the country’s centuries-old tradition of calligraphy. Each of the Islamic holy book’s 610 pages was produced by hand in a painstaking process that took a team