Ariana News: Research indicates that female inmates face serious problems in prisons; in addition to sexual harassments, the female prisoners do not have access to the lawyers. Click here to read more (external link).
The Nation (USA): Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies. By 2007, the US Geological Survey had undertaken the most comprehensive study of the mineral deposits below the country’s surface. An internal Pentagon memo claimed that Afghanistan could develop into the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” referring to the mineral that
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani’s former legal advisor Abdul Ali Mohammadi has claimed that the entire process of the controversial Smart City housing project with convicted Kabul Bank defaulterl Khalilullah Frozi was supervised by the president himself. Mohammadi said Ghani approved a Kabul Bank debt recuperation procedure that mapped out a repayment package for Frozi.
Khaama Press December 14, 2015 Abdul Ali Mohammadi who was suspended from his post as legal adviser to the presidential palace over the controversial scandal of Smart City project says President was forced to suspend him. Mohammadi who was summoned to the Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of Parliament on Monday said after the termination
Press TV December 4, 2015 A highly secretive CIA-trained paramilitary unit, known as the Khost Protection Force (KPF), operating in eastern Afghanistan, has been implicated in civilian killings, torture and resorting to excessive force under the guise of counterterrorism activities, a new report says. Paid, equipped, and directed by the US Intelligence Agency to allegedly
Wall Street Journal: Foreign donors have threatened to stop funding Afghanistan’s anticorruption watchdog after questions surfaced over its spending and the defection of several of the body’s top graft busters, according to a letter and members of the group. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV December 3, 2015 The Pentagon has wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money on luxurious private villas for US government staff in Afghanistan, a congressional watchdog reveals. John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), wrote a five-page letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on November 25, saying that the Pentagon Task
1TV: Afghan government has expressed anger after a plane belonging to an Arab country landed in western Heart province. The provincial governor said that the plane landed in the Afghan soil without coordinating with the local officials. The plane belonged to Qatar and which brought ten costly armored vehicles, Mohammad Asif Rahimi explained. Click here
Tolo News: A number of Nangarhar provincial council members along with residents on Sunday expressed their concerns over the rampant land-grabbing practice currently being witnessed in the province. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press November 29, 2015 The High Office of Anti-Corruption on Sunday released its report enlisting the current and fixed assets in possession of President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani. According to the report, President Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani are jointly in possession of the properties which includes $4.817 million