Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2019 A total of 403,338 people have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring Iran and Pakistan since the beginning of the year, the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a report released on October 31. The report said that some 385,000 Afghans have been repatriated from Iran, with
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2019 Human Rights Watch (HRW) says CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces have “committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability” — including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and attacks on health-care facilities. In its report, released on October 31, HRW called on the Afghan government to immediately disband all pro-government
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 31, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of 2019 than they were earlier in the year, according to a leading oversight authority on Afghanistan that reports to the United States Congress. “Roughly half of
The Guardian (UK): The presenter, pop star and women’s rights activist Mozhdah Jamalzadah talks about fleeing her country, before returning and revolutionising Afghan TV – Jamalzadah was five when her family escaped Afghanistan, eventually settling in Canada. In 2009, in her mid-20s, she returned to Kabul after being invited by a new TV station to host
Tolo News: Newly-available documents seen by TOLOnews indicate that the acting minister of finance–and top adviser to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani– Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, received a $450,000 salary from California State University in 2015, where he had served as president between 2011 and 2014. These documents—along with others shown to Tolonews earlier in the month—reveal a
Ariana: President Ghani has appointed Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Idrees Zaman as Acting Foreign Minister, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi tweeted. Mr. Zaman has been serving as Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs since October 2018. His new appointment comes days after resignation of former Acting Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani. Click here to read more
Tolo News: The Taliban has demanded the release of 80 prisoners, including Anas Haqqani and Hafiz Rashid–two leaders of the Haqqani Network–for a swap with two US professors, sources close to the Taliban said on Wednesday. The sources said a prisoner exchange would offer a restart to the US and Taliban peace talks that were halted
Ariana: A number of Afghan senators on Tuesday called on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the election result as soon as possible. Senators also called on frontrunner candidates to avoid taking this national process toward a political deadlock. Abdul Latif Nahzatyar, a member of senate said postponement of election results will pave the way