Tolo News: Acting Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor said at a gathering in Mazar-e-Sharif city on Monday that government should have consulted with Jamiat-e Islami Party and former High Peace Council’s (HPC) chief, Burhanuddin Rabbani’s family, before executing the terrorist that was involved in Rabbani’s assassination. He said that Hamidullah, one of the six terrorists that were
By Bruce Pannier Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 4, 2016 A sound not heard for many years just came across Uzbekistan’s southern border — the sound of rocket fire from Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Ariana TV reported that the Taliban attacked an Afghan border post in the Kaldor district of Balkh Province during the night of May
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan has reacted angrily after U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would win freedom “in two minutes” for the jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden. In a statement released Monday, Pakistani Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan rejected
Tolo News: Local officials from Takhar province said on Friday that Tajiksitan has claimed dozens of hectares of land along the Amu River which connects the two countries. Head of Borders and Tribal Affairs Provincial Department, Jan Mohammad Nabi Zada, said the problem cropped up due to the lack of a retainer walls along the river
Tolo News: A number of residents from the mountainous region of Pamir in Badakhshan province, who traveled for 27 days to get to Faizabad city, said conditions are so bad in their area that residents are forced to eat grass as they have no food. These residents said they are in desperate need of help and appealed
VOA News Megan Duzor April 23, 2016 The former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, says one of the biggest problems facing Afghanistan continues to be its poor relationship with its neighbor, Pakistan. Khalilzad told VOA in an interview Friday that “the two countries need each other and they should cooperate.” He said the United
Military Times: An unsettling new State Department report warns of potentially fatal electrical currents inside two well-populated buildings at the U.S. embassy complex in Afghanistan. An investigation by the agency’s inspector general reveals significant problems with the power systems in an office building and a staff residence. Combined, the buildings can accommodate about 1,200 people. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 11, 2016 One person has been killed in a bomb attack targeting a government employee bus in the Afghan capital. An Afghan official said the bus was carrying Education Ministry employees to work in Kabul on April 11 when it exploded. Five people were also wounded. The officials said the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 9, 2016 British police has rescued an Afghan boy and 14 adults who were in a sealed lorry, after the young boy texted he was suffocating. Ahmed, who is aged six or seven, used on April 7 a mobile phone given by a British aid worker in a French migrant
Tolo News: The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF); Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading total communications provider; and MOBY GROUP, Afghanistan’s largest media conglomerate on Tuesday announced the launch of the fifth annual Roshan Afghan Premier League (RAPL) Green Field. This marks the kick-off of RAPL regional tournaments which will take place across eight regions of Afghanistan. The opening ceremony will