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Afghan Refugees’ Living Conditions Improved in Iran, Pakistan: MoRR
Ariana: The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says the living conditions of Afghan refugees have been improved in Iran and Pakistan. “Afghan refugees join school in Iran without having any documents and it can help Afghan families to have impunity too,” Sayed Hussain Alemi Balkhi, the Minister of Refugees said. Click here to read more
Pakistani Foreign Minister Talks Peace, Security With Afghanistan’s President
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 15, 2018 Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to discuss peace and security between the two neighbors. The president’s office said in a statement on September 15 that Ghani met with a Pakistani delegation led by Qureshi in Kabul during an official
Afghan Intelligence forces suffer casualties in Parwan explosion
Khaama Press: Provincial spokesperson Wahida Shahkar confirmed the incident and said at least four personnel of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) lost their lives in the explosion. She said the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Khalazai area of the province and as a result four NDS personnel also sustained injuries. Click
U.S. Aid Program Vowed to Help 75,000 Afghan Women, Watchdog Says It’s a Flop
Ariana: An American aid project in Afghanistan that was billed as the world’s biggest program ever designed purely for female empowerment has been a failure and a waste of taxpayers’ money, the head of a government watchdog agency has charged. The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction has repeatedly criticized American aid projects in Afghanistan as wasteful
‘My Heart Breaks for Taliban, They Are Afghans’ – Ghani
Ariana: “The worst part of my job is early morning, I get my first security briefing and I get the casualty figures. It is not just that my heart breaks for our security forces who are true heroes but also for Taliban; they are Afghans and I am the president of all Afghanistan,” Ghani said in
1TV Afghanistan Dari News – September 14, 2018
Team reports sighting rare wild goat species in Afghanistan
Phys.org: Based on field surveys in northern Afghanistan, Zalmai Moheb, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan Program and a doctoral candidate in environmental conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with others, report this week that they have for the first time documented by direct observation the presence of two rare Asian wild goat
Hazara women opt for plastic surgery to change facial look and disguise ethnicity
PRI: “The Hazara have swelling eyes, moon-type face, and they have a small nose,” explains Dr. Ahmadzai, adding that “many look like Filipinos, Japanese and Chinese.” Dr. Ahmadzai, he says he gets roughly 20 or 30 Hazara patients every month. They are mostly women wanting to enlarge their eyes and noses. And he says he doesn’t
At least 37 killed in multiple attacks across Afghanistan
Al Jazeera: Afghan security personnel and civilians targeted in night-time attacks across the country – At least 37 people have been killed in night-time attacks across four provinces of Afghanistan, officials said. Twenty-nine police officers and members of the Afghan national army were killed in Taliban attacks in the western province of Farah, the head of the