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Monthly Archives: March 2019

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Taliban Sources Report Progress On Troop Withdrawal

4th March, 2019 · admin

Tolo News: The US negotiators and the Taliban members have reached to some kind of agreements on the modality of foreign forces withdrawal from Afghanistan and the guarantee that Afghanistan’s territory is not used as a threat against other countries, Taliban sources familiar with the talks said.  But, the Presidential Palace said the final agreement on any

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Posted in Peace Talks, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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1TV Afghanistan Dari News – March 4, 2019

4th March, 2019 · admin
Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |
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Afghan Government Donates $1 Million To UN Palestinian Aid Agency

4th March, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 4, 2019 The government of Afghanistan has contributed $1 million to the main United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees. In a ceremony in Istanbul on March 3, Abdul Rahim Sayed Jan, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Turkey, handed the donation to Pierre Kraehenbuehl, commissioner of the UN Relief and Works Agency

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Posted in Arab-Afghan Relations | Tags: Palestine-Afghanistan Relations |
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Ghani Appoints New Election Commissioners

3rd March, 2019 · admin

Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani in four decrees released on Sunday announced the list of new members of the Independent Election Commission and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission as well as the heads of the secretariats of the two electoral bodies. The commissioners were selected from amongst 81 candidates for whom 17 presidential candidates voted at

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Posted in Elections News, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani |
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Government spends 1.5 billion afghanis annually on official trips

3rd March, 2019 · admin

1TV: The Integrity Watch, an anti-corruption watchdog, admitted that foreign official trips are needed, but claimed that many of the trips are arranged based on personal preference. According to the watchdog, high-level officials book expensive hotels and air tickets. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Corruption, Economic News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government |
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Afghan feminists cannot prevent US pullback: Cheryl Bernard

3rd March, 2019 · admin · 20 Comments

1TV: Cheryl Bernard (wife of Zalmay Khalilzad) said Afghan women need to recognize that the Taliban is not their only or worst problem. Deep-seated cultural values and traditions, such as the so-called Pashtun “honor code,” are far more devastating to women’s lives, and most of these are clearly un-Islamic or even anti-Islamic, she said. Cheryl

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Posted in Afghan Women, Muslims and Islam, Society, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Cheryl Bernard, Pashtuns, Pashtunwali, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Afghan Loya Jirga Aimed At Discussing Peace Talks Delayed

3rd March, 2019 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 3, 2019 KABUL – A planned meeting of hundreds of Afghan politicians and tribal, ethnic, and religious leaders aimed at discussing negotiations with the Taliban has been postponed, officials say. The gathering, known as a consultative Loya Jirga, was initially set to be held in Kabul from March 17-20.

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: High Peace Council, Loya Jirga, Mohammad Amin Waqad |
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1TV Afghanistan Dari News – March 3, 2019

3rd March, 2019 · admin
Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |
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At Least 20 Killed, Hundreds Endangered In Flood-Swept Southern Afghanistan

3rd March, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 3, 2019 At least 20 people have been killed, including several children, as flash floods struck Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, UN relief officials say. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on March 2 that floods washed away homes and vehicles after heavy rains hit Kandahar city

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Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Flood, Kandahar |
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Warring Parties in Afghanistan Trade Blame for Record Civilian Death Toll

2nd March, 2019 · admin · 12 Comments

Michael Hughes: In some of the most advanced countries in the world citizens are continuing to fight – with just cause – for rights such as freedom of speech, freedom from discrimination and freedom from all sorts of state oppression. Yet in certain countries there are virtually no de facto rights. In fact, one could argue that many

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights, ISIS/DAESH, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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