Tolo News in Dari – September 13, 2024
Ariana: Afghanistan have announced a 17-member squad for three-game ODI series against South Africa. Hashmatullah Shahidi will lead Afghanistan in their historic bilateral ODI series against South Africa, while Rahmat Shah will be his deputy. The side also sees the return of Rashid Khan, who missed their previous ODI series against Ireland because of an
By AFP and RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi: Taliban authorities confirmed on September 12 that civilians had been shot dead that day in an attack in central Afghanistan but provided no further details. “Unknown gunmen have opened fire and have killed the civilians,” Abdul Matin Qani, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Interior Ministry told the AFP news
VOA News: In the following interview, McCaul accuses White House officials of “stonewalling” the investigation and mentions his September 3 decision to subpoena Secretary of State Antony Blinken for testimony even though findings of the full report were released Monday. “We’re still not finished with the investigation,” McCaul told VOA on Tuesday. Click here to
Afghanistan International: On Wednesday, US Representative Tim Burchett introduced a bill to the House of Representatives calling for US support of the “Vienna Process,” which involves the National Resistance Front and other anti-Taliban groups. The bill urges the United States and other nations to participate in the Vienna meetings. Several anti-Taliban groups, including the National
By Phil Mercer VOA News September 12, 2024 Australia has stripped military honors from senior defense commanders over alleged war crimes committed under their watch during the long conflict in Afghanistan. Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles on Thursday told the Federal Parliament senior military officers who served in Afghanistan would lose their distinguished service medals. The
8am: The Taliban’s Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has intensified restrictions on citizens, particularly women, to enforce their new law. The group’s Morality Police in some provinces have instructed men not to send their wives to the market. According to these Morality Police, women, when haggling with shopkeepers, lead men astray
Khaama: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that food insecurity has turned into an escalating crisis in Afghanistan, with 2.9 million children under the age of five facing severe malnutrition. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, stated in a message posted on X/Twitter on Thursday, September 12, that 850,000 of these children are suffering
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 11, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and neighboring Turkmenistan on Wednesday marked the resumption of work on a long-delayed gas pipeline designed to run through the two countries, Pakistan and India. The estimated $10 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, or TAPI, project is designed to annually transport up to 33 billion cubic meters of
