Tolo News: In an interview with TOLOnews’ Lotfullah Najafizada, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said that he expects the Afghan peace process to be concluded in months, not years. Click here to read more (external link). Related Khalilzad says patience is needed to resolve a 40-year war Abdullah meets with India’s NSA,
AP: The World Bank said this week that nearly half of war-torn Afghanistan’s 18,000 schools lack proper buildings and an estimated 3.7 million school-aged children are still out of school — despite massive investment in the country’s education sector. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 62 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 370 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The cumulative number of total cases is now 39,548, the number of total reported deaths is 1,469, and the total number of recoveries is 33,045. Click here to read
The Print: Pakistan is key to get the stalled Afghan-Taliban talks back on keel. PM Modi knows India must bide its time. Abdullah knows, as do Ghani and the rest of Afghanistan, that if the Taliban is back to the negotiating table after so many years, it is the Pakistanis who have nudged them. That
Ariana: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday evening that peace cannot just be on a national level but that it needed to be on a regional basis in order to be successful. Speaking at an event at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Doha, Qatar, Ghani said: “Regional connectivity is critical to
Tolo News: Afghanistan National Cricket Team’s opening batsman Najeeb Tarakai died on Tuesday following injuries he got in a traffic accident last week. Tarakai was 29 years old. Click here to read more (external link). Other Sports News Football (APL): Mawjhai Amu Ties De Maiwand Atalan 1-1
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday reported 64 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 372 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The cumulative number of total cases is now 39,486, the number of total reported deaths is 1,467, and the total number of recoveries is 32,977. Click here to read
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 5, 2020 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived in Qatar for a bilateral meeting with the leaders of the Gulf state but will not hold talks with Taliban representatives even as peace talks are under way in the country’s capital city, Doha, according to officials. Negotiations between the Afghan government