1TV: FIFA has rejected suspended head of Afghanistan football federation Keramuddin Karim’s appeal against a provisional ban. Football’s international governing body had imposed the three-month ban on Karim in mid-December after senior figures linked to the Afghan women’s team had alleged that some players had been sexually and physically abused by him and other officials. Click
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s former minister of interior Gen. Noorul Haq Ulumi, who also leads a newly established political party, Afghanistan People’s National Front (Jabha-e-Milli Mardum-e-Afghanistan), on Wednesday entered the race for 2019 presidential elections. Bashir Ahmad Bezhan, head of Kabul Attendants, an civil society organization, analyst and journalist in profession, and Mohammad Naeem Ghayur are his running
Tolo News: Former minister of foreign affairs, Zalmai Rassoul, on Tuesday registered for upcoming presidential elections for the second time. He also ran for president in 2014 elections in which he was one of the leading candidates in the first round of the elections in April. This time, Rassoul is accompanied by Abdul Jabbar Taqwa
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 15, 2019 German authorities say they have detained a 50-year old Afghan-German dual national suspected of passing data to an Iranian intelligence agency. The suspect, identified only as 50-year-old Abdul Hamid S., worked as a “language expert and cultural adviser” for the German military, the federal prosecutor’s office said on
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal January 15, 2019 Pakistan has detained a senior member of the Afghan Taliban, sources in the group say. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources told RFE/RL that Hafiz Mohibullah, religious affairs minister when the Taliban ran Afghanistan before the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, was detained in the northwestern city of Peshawar. There
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 15, 2019 The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a bombing in Kabul that killed at least four people. The explosion near a fortified foreign compound late on January 14 also wounded 113 people, according to the Health Ministry. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the militant group, said on January 15
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 14, 2019 ISLAMABAD — The fledgling U.S.-initiated dialogue with the Taliban, aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, has come to a halt, an insurgent spokesperson said Monday, apparently dealing a blow to renewed hopes for a much-needed Afghan peace. The disclosure comes as the chief U.S. negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, is
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 14, 2019 KABUL — At least four people were killed and more than 90 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a foreign compound in the east of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on January 14, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Interior