Tolo News: Amid reports of disagreements over the list of the participants for the Beijing peace meeting on Afghanistan, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday said that it expects the plan for such a meeting to be implemented in the near future. When asked whether the meeting was cancelled, Geran Hewad, a spokesman for
Tolo News: Approximately 7,200 people in Afghanistan are estimated to be HIV positive, according to numbers by the World Health Organization (WHO), published on Sunday to mark World AIDS Day. The WHO called for a broader public awareness campaign in Afghanistan to deal with the issue. But the Afghan Ministry of Public Health said that it
Michael Hughes: President Donald Trump during a visit to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving Day surprised the world by announcing that the United States had resumed talks with the Taliban and surprised the Taliban by suggesting that the implementation of a ceasefire was on the negotiating table. Shortly after Trump’s announcement the Taliban underscored that their stance has
Tolo News: Almost two and a half years after the United States dropped the “mother of all bombs” onto a Daesh hideout in eastern Afghanistan, locals say they have been afflicted by “many diseases” and agricultural lands are not yielding crops. TOLOnews reporter Abdulhaq Omeri interviewed residents of Mohmand Dara village, in the Achin district in
1TV: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah’s team has urged the election commission and the international community to take step for “saving election and preventing crisis before it is too late.” Abdullah’s team has repeatedly called for removal of 300,000 votes, which it says, are non-biometric and fraudulent. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani ordered the termination of two major mining contracts – for Balkhab copper deposit in Sar-e-Pul province and for a gold deposit in Badakshan — during a High Economic Council meeting last week. The order was confirmed by Abdul Qadir Mutfi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum. Finance Ministry spokesman
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U19 National Cricket Team beat India by two wickets in a low-scoring Youth ODI series on Saturday in India’s Lucknow. India has won the series after beating Afghanistan 3-2 in the series. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 30, 2019 A high-ranking Taliban official has been killed in clashes with security forces in Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan’s north, a local official said. Qari Nuriddin and his four bodyguards were killed in the district of Mengajik, where the militant group has a strong presence, provincial government spokesman Abdul