By Ayaz Gul VOA News July 5, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan says it has formally invited Afghanistan’s chief peace negotiator, Abdullah Abdullah, to pay an official visit to Islamabad at “mutually convenient dates.” The move is the latest in a series of steps the Pakistani government has taken in a bid to improve the country’s often
1TV: A top Russian diplomat has accused US intelligence officers of involvement in trafficking of drug from Afghanistan. “Those wonderful US intelligence officers, who accuse us of different things, are involved in drug trafficking. Their planes from Kandahar, from Bagram [airfield near Kabul] are flying wherever they want to – to Germany, to Romania –
Tolo News: Herat governor Waheed Qatali says that 90% of Herat customs income is stolen by the mafia in the province, who also operate in the Kabul and Islam Qala customs. The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, also called MEC, in a report on June 29 found alleged interference by government officials, MPs
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health reported 279 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 592 samples tested in the last 24 hours in 15 provinces. The ministry also reported 38 new COVID-19 deaths and 202 recoveries. With this, the total COVID-19 cases in the country reached 32,951, the total deaths reached 864 and
Tolo News: Enthusiasm for motocross is growing among Afghan youths who want to compete internationally but say costs are prohibitive. Kabul got its first and only official motocross track in 2016. The national motocross team has 31 members, including a young woman. The Afghanistan Motorcycling Federation, which was established in 2015, has 630 members —
1TV: Saudi Arabia has pledged to build 100 religious schools in Afghanistan and has approved financing of 35 development plans. Riyadh will also build a hospital in Afghan capital Kabul, worth $30 million, Saudi ambassador while meeting with Afghan Senate speaker. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 4, 2020 ISLAMABAD – NATO’s non-combatant military alliance in Afghanistan said Saturday it has arranged its “largest supply ever” of personal protective medical equipment to help Afghan security forces fight the coronavirus. The announcement by the 38-nation Resolute Support mission came just days after news reports said the pandemic was
Tolo News: Atta Mohammad Noor, the chief executive of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, on Saturday accused Salahuddin Rabbani, the chairman of the party, and Ahmad Zia Massoud, a party member, of trying to monopolize the chairmanship of the party. This comes two days after a number of members of the Jamiat-e-Islami Leadership Council, in a move