Ayaz Gul VOA News March 30, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A mortar attack on a school Saturday in the volatile southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan killed at least four school students and injured more than a dozen. The assault comes on the heels of the Taliban capturing a strategically important northeastern district in Afghanistan and inflicting fresh
Reuters: Allegations of sexual abuse of members of Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team by sport officials have resulted in missed paychecks after sponsors pulled out, taunts and entreaties from parents to their daughters to quit playing. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan has been named the Adelaide Strikers‘ Most Valuable Player in the Big Bash League for the second year in a row, making him the franchise’s first player to win the prize in succession. Rashid claimed 19 wickets for Strikers in the recent BBL, a franchise record and the joint fifth-most
Tolo News: “With or without a peace settlement, Afghanistan will likely continue to grapple with multiple violent-extremist organizations, who threaten Afghanistan and the international community …With or without a peace agreement, Afghanistan runs the risk of becoming a ‘narco-state’ and has already been described as such by former officials from the US government and international organizations,”
Tolo News: Amrullah Saleh, a vice-presidential candidate for the next elections and former head of the NDS has said that Afghanistan can be an ally to Pakistan but it “will never bow” to it. “What we are communicating to Pakistanis is: We can be your allies, but we will never bow to you,” Saleh said in
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 28, 2019 ISLAMABAD — An estimated 10 million people in Afghanistan, more than a quarter of its population, are facing “severe acute” food insecurity and are in need of urgent “life-saving” humanitarian assistance in the wake of recent floods and drought, warns an international relief agency. Three years of drought have
Tolo News: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Thursday held a meeting with elections stakeholders and signed cooperation agreements with them on the upcoming presidential polls, which are scheduled for September 28. The IEC has estimated that $192 million is needed for the presidential, provincial councils, district councils and Ghazni parliamentary elections which all will be held on the