Ayaz Gul VOA News July 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A U.S. diplomat has begun crucial meetings with officials in Pakistan to seek their cooperation in pushing Taliban insurgents to engage in peace and reconciliation talks with the Afghan government. Alice Wells, principal deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asia, Monday met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary
Tolo News: Nizamuddin Qaisari, police chief of Qaisar district in Faryab province and a close aide to First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, was arrested by Special Forces on Monday afternoon in Faryab, a source from the 209 Shaheen Military Corps confirmed, but gave no details. Click here to read more (external link).
GlobalVoices: A young Afghan cricketer has won unprecedented recognition after being selected by the sports network ESPN for its All-Time T20 International Cricket XI, a kind of hall of fame for the best performers in an exciting, fast-paced version of the sport. The cricketer is Rashid Khan, and his remarkable rise has helped a war-torn country
1TV: Abdullah said that declaring safe zones for terrorists who carry out terrorist attacks against the Afghan people is not logical. The ‘safe zones’ for the Taliban had been proposed by Hizb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and it surfaced more during the government’s unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Former Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdul Razaq Wahidi on Monday appeared before a special tribunal after being accused of corruption and misuse of authority. The special tribunal is expected to determine its findings soon but no date has been set for its final verdict. Monday’s hearing was however adjourned to Friday. Wahidi
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A new round of a polio immunization campaign went into action Monday in Afghanistan amid concerns insurgent bans could possibly deprive hundreds of thousands of children from receiving the vaccine. During the five-day campaign, officials say, about 52,000 Afghan vaccinators will visit 6.4 million children under the
Ariana: Former Energy and Water Minister Ali Ahmad Osmani on Sunday accused the Presidential Palace (ARG) of power monopoly. The transfer of authorities from legal institutions into the office of [President’s] advisors based on nepotism have paralyzed the objective processes of governance in most of the institutions,” Osmani told reporters at a press conference in Kabul.
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 1, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say a suicide bomb blast has killed at least 19 people, including at least 10 members of the country’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minority, in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The victims were on their way to the governor’s office in the provincial capital of