KABUL, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — A fresh infectious poliomyelitis case has been detected in Afghanistan, bringing the number of confirmed cases of polio virus to 15 so far this year, the Afghan Public Health Ministry said Wednesday. “A new polio virus case was registered in Bagh-e-Shahr neighborhood, of southern Kandahar province recently,” the ministry said
Amnesty International: “Afghanistan’s human rights defenders have shown great courage despite the very difficult context in which they live in. Faced with grave threats to their lives and well-being, they continue to speak up against injustice and stand up for the rights of others. It is about time that the Afghan authorities and the international community
Tolo News: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, on Wednesday said that if parliamentary elections are held as planned less than 10 percent of the people will have representatives in parliament. According to Hekmatyar, more than half of the country’s population will be deprived of the right to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections. “Is an election
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U-16 National Football Team lost 0-7 in its second match, against South Korea, on Tuesday night in the AFC U-16 Championship 2018 in Malaysia. The team also lost 2-1 to Iraq in their opening match in the championships. Afghanistan is playing in Group D of the championships against Iraq, South Korea and Australia and will next face Australia. Click here to
BBC News: Afghanistan bowled India out off the penultimate ball of the game to earn a thrilling tie in the Asia Cup in Dubai. India, who had qualified for Friday’s final, needed seven off the final over and one from the last two balls in the dead-rubber Super Four match. Afghanistan 252-8 (50 overs): Shahzad 124,
Eisa Khan Ayoobi via Al Jazeera: The NUG is struggling with containing the Taliban and addressing internal divisions – [Ghani’s] intra-Pashtun clan politics seems to have made reaching out to the Taliban more difficult. The Taliban leadership are Durrani Pashtun from Kandahar who take pride in being the descendants of “conventional” Afghan rulers like Ahmad Shah Durrani.
Tolo News: The US Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday that the US military is adjusting tactics in Afghanistan as the Taliban continue to inflict heavy casualties on local forces. “So far, they have taken hard casualties over the last year,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon as quoted in a report by AFP. “But they
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 25, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations announced Tuesday it has received “multiple, credible allegations” the latest anti-Taliban airstrikes by pro-government forces in Afghanistan killed at least nine civilians, mostly women and children. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan expressed its concern about the rising number of civilian casualties from airstrikes this