Tolo News: Rights groups on Tuesday strongly criticized the Afghan government for not managing to arrest the former head of the Afghanistan Football Federation, Keramuddin Karim, who is accused of being involved in sexual abuse against female members of the football federation. The arrest warrant for Karim was issued last June, but so far he
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday reported 194 new positive cases in the past 24 hours out of 495 tests. The ministry also reported 22 deaths due to COVID-19 over the last 24 hours while 126 others have recovered. With this, the total COVID-19 cases in the country reached 33,384, the total
Al Jazeera: Some of the earliest statues of the Buddha are among precious items housed at the National Museum of Afghanistan. But the US estimates that nearly 70 percent of the treasures have been looted from the museum or destroyed during four decades of war or under strict Taliban rule. Now, historians at the
CoinDesk: Blockchain startup Fantom has been given the green light to start tracking medicinal drugs in Afghanistan to help stem the country’s counterfeiting problem. After a signing ceremony with the Afghan Ministry of Health and several pharmaceutical distributors last month, the startup has unveiled details of its Smart Medicine pilot project. The project aims to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 6, 2020 A female Afghan politician and her driver were wounded in a gun attack in the morning of July 6, in her native province of Logar, local police said. Gunmen targeted the vehicle carrying Nafisa Hijran, a provincial council member, in Logar’s capital, Pul-i-Alam, said Shahpoor Ahmadzai, a spokesman
1TV: Each of 34 provinces in Afghanistan will have a female deputy governor, a presidential spokesman said on Monday. The decision was made during the cabinet meeting. The Independent Directorate of Local Governance has been instructed to create the new posts, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqi said in a press conference. Click here to read more
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 239 new positive cases in the past 24 hours out of 668 tests. The ministry also reported 34 deaths due to COVID-19 over the last 24 hours while 737 others have recovered. With this, the total COVID-19 cases in the country reached 33,190, the total
1TV: Afghan government said on Sunday it will not release 597 prisoners that are included in Taliban’s list of 5,000 prisoners they are demanding. The Office of Prisons Administration said that most of those prisoners are convicted of criminal offenses and moral crimes, including murder. Click here to read more (external link). Related Freed Taliban