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The Boy Who Crawls To School
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: Mohibullah can’t walk, and his parents can’t afford a wheelchair for him. But this 9-year-old in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province is determined to go to school, no matter what.
Afghanistan’s Real Internet Lives on Its Streets
New York Media: In urban centers, young men — and it is virtually all young men — work as content dealers (in Dari, Afghanistan’s main language, it’s called the somewhat more ambiguous Computer kar, or “computer worker”). At the most basic level, a Sneakernet micro-business might consist simply of a plastic stool, an old laptop, and
IEC Postpones Results of Parliamentary Election
Ariana: The results were expected to be announced on November 10, but it has been delayed to at least 10 days. The IEC cited issues in “filtration and transpiration process” of ballots over the delay. “The preliminary results [from the vote] in all provinces except Kabul will be announced on November 23, and the results from
Russia to host Afghan peace officials, Taliban on Friday
1TV: Russia said on Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a delegation of peace officials to a multinational conference in Moscow on coming Friday that will be attended also by the Taliban. The meeting was previously postponed by Russia after the Afghan government turned down the invitation on the grounds that peace
NATO says US soldier killed in insider attack in Afghan capital
Press TV November 3, 2018 A service member of the US armed forces has been killed and another one sustained wounds in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in an apparent insider attack, the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission (RSM) in the war-torn country reports. “Initial reports indicate the attacker was a member of the Afghan National Defense
Thousands Attend Funeral Of Pakistani Cleric Known As ‘Father Of The Taliban’
RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal November 3, 2018 Thousands of people attended the funeral of Maulana Sami ul-Haq, a prominent Pakistani cleric known as the “father of the Afghan Taliban,” in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Noshera on November 3. Sami ul-Haq, 81, was killed in a knife attack at his home in the city of Rawalpindi, near
Pakistani Cleric Known as ‘Father’ of Afghan Taliban Assassinated
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Unknown assailants in Pakistan have assassinated the top Islamist leader known as the father of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement. Family members confirmed that Maulana Sami-ul Haq, 81, was resting at his home Friday in Rawalpindi when he was killed with a knife. The slain leader’s son, Maulana Hamid-ul
1TV Afghanistan Dari News – November 2, 2018
President Ghani Seeks Re-Election ‘To End War’
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani has revealed he is seeking re-election next year to “finish the job” of bringing an end to the 17-year war, Bloomberg quoted the president in a report on Thursday. According to Bloomberg report, President Ghani said the Taliban and other terrorist groups are trying “to turn our beautiful country into a