1TV: A man put behind bars months ago in Kandahar tried to escape from prison wearing women’s clothing. Torjan, who was jailed three months ago over insurgency, used women’s dress including veil to try to break out of Kandahar’s central jail. However, his plan was foiled when he was caught by guards. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is trying to find the person or people responsible for leaking surveillance footage from the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital that showed how a woman in labor was refused admission and instead gave birth in the hospital’s courtyard earlier this week. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 13, 2016 Afghanistan has called on Pakistan to find and free a former Afghan provincial governor kidnapped in Islamabad. The Afghan Foreign Ministry said Fazlullah Wahidi, a former governor of Afghanistan’s western Herat Province, was abducted in the Pakistani capital on February 12. The motive for the kidnapping was not
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 12, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A visiting former Afghan governor was kidnapped Friday evening from a market in Islamabad, Pakistani officials say. Police and Afghan embassy sources in the capital told VOA that Sayed Fazlullah Waheedi, who until recently served as governor of eastern Kunar and western Herat provinces of Afghanistan, was visiting
Tolo News: Ghulam Hussain, the head of Baghlan electricity department said on Friday that the authorities have managed to reconnect two circuits on the main transmission lines transferring electricity from Tajikistan to the Afghan capital Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
Al Jazeera America: For a supposed do-gooder in one of the world’s most dangerous countries, Kimberley Motley is surprisingly blunt about her original motivations as a legal champion in Afghanistan. “I came here for the money, just like half the people here. I had no interest in Afghanistan.” Click here to read more (external link).
Counter Punch: The Assange case is rooted across the Atlantic in Pentagon-dominated Washington, obsessed with pursuing and prosecuting whistleblowers, especially Assange for having exposed, in WikiLeaks, US capital crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq: the wholesale killing of civilians and a contempt for sovereignty and international law. None of this truth-telling is illegal under the US Constitution.
Foreign Policy: The recent spate of violence tearing across Afghanistan, record civilian casualties, and a fledgling security force struggling to maintain the status quo with the Taliban would seem like an unlikely candidate for comparison with Colombia. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Authorities in Pakistan have arrested the suspected main facilitator of last month’s attack on a university that killed at least 21 people, mostly students. Intelligence sources confirmed to VOA on Wednesday that security operatives detained the suspect from an area not far from the northwestern town of
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