Tolo News: Afghans around the country spent the first day of Eid al-Adha in peace as the Ministry of Interior says twelve security incidents were prevented on Sunday. Residents of different provinces called on the Taliban to quit violence and celebrate Eid together with other Afghans in a peaceful environment. Click here to read more (external
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 11, 2019 KABUL — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has rejected foreign interference and called for the presidential election to be held next month as planned, amid talks between the United States and the Taliban aimed at bringing the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan to an end. “Without a legitimate
1TV: Tourist arrivals in central Afghan province of Bamyan have declined 30 percent, local officials said. The decline is driven in large part by insecurity on Maidan Wardak-Bamyan and Ghorband Valley. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Afghanistan wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Shahzad has been suspended by cricket board of the country for breaching the Player Code of Conduct. In a statement, Afghanistan Cricket Board said that Shahzad had travelled out of the country without its permission. The statement did not say which country Shahzad had travelled to. Click here to read
1TV: On Thursday, a Taliban delegation led by its deputy leader Mullah Baradar visited Uzbekistan and met foreign minister of the country, Abdulaziz Kamilov. During the meeting, the sides discussed the issues related to the promotion of the peaceful political process in Afghanistan in order to establish sustainable and long-term peace in the country, Uzbekistan’s foreign
Tolo News: A retired US Army general David Petraeus has suggested that the United States should not abandon Afghanistan as it did Iraq by withdrawing all its troops from the country. In an article published in the Wall Street Journal and co-written by Vance Serchuk, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Mr. Petraeus says the history
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 9 , 2019 Seventeen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election in a race among old power brokers — ex-government officials, prominent technocrats, and a notorious former warlord. The twice-delayed September 28 election is slated to be only the second-ever democratic transition of power in the war-wracked country
Tolo News: Presidential candidate Ahmad Wali Massoud held his first campaign rally in Kabul on Friday where he slammed the government leaders for “failing” to improve the country’s situation in the last five years. Mr. Massoud, who heads the Massoud Foundation and who has served as Afghanistan’s diplomat, said that the “inefficiency” of government leaders –