Ariana: Former Balkh governor and politician Atta Mohammad Noor said he has recently started considering the option of an interim government which he said could help resolve the current crisis. He said he only recently started thinking about this as an option and only after President Ashraf Ghani’s move to summarily dismiss the health minister
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 120 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,666 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 53,327, the total number of reported deaths is 2,260, and the total number of recoveries is
Radio Free Afghanistan January 6, 2021 KABUL — Afghanistan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has announced plans to install security cameras with “advanced” technology across Kabul to better tackle actions by “terrorists and thieves” in the capital. The project would cost more than $100 million and would be supported by NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, Saleh wrote
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 102 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,691 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 53,207, the total number of reported deaths is 2,253, and the total number of recoveries is
Tolo News: The former minister of mines, Wahidullah Shahrani, who was sentenced to 13 months in jail and fined $1.5 million on charges of misuse of authority, on Wednesday accused President Ashraf Ghani of trying to interfere in his judicial proceedings in the court. Shahrani’s aide quoted the Afghan Attorney General Farid Hamidi as saying
Tolo News: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced the date and time for Afghanistan National Football matches in the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers, the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) said on Tuesday. Bangladesh will host Afghanistan on March 25 and the match will kick off at 5:30pm Kabul time. Click
Ariana: Second Vice President Sarwar Danish has called on Pakistan and the international community to probe the “cowardly” attack on coal miners, seven of whom were Afghan nationals, by extremists groups in Pakistan and prosecute the culprits. The Islamic State (Daesh) claimed responsibility for executing the ethnic Hazaras. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Tuesday said that the Taliban’s opposition to the current Constitution of Afghanistan is meant to cause the collapse of the system. Addressing a ceremony on the 17th anniversary of the ratification of Afghanistan’s Constitution, Danish states that the Taliban’s confrontation with the Afghan Constitution is