1TV: Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Hamid Karzai has said that the current Afghan top officials including President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah all served in his government. “[Ghani] is also a legacy of mine. So is Abdullah,” Karzai said. “Rather than going into the past, they should begin to deliver — not talk
Tolo News: Prominent Afghan politician and former Jihad commander and military advisor to President Ashraf Ghani, Sayed Hussain Anwari, was laid to rest in Kabul on Saturday. Thousands of mourners attended the ceremony including high-ranking government officials and his supporters. Anwari’s coffin was transferred from Sardar Mohammad Dawoud Khan hospital to Khatamunnaibian mosque and buried in Eskart
Anwari was the leader of Hezb-e-Harakat, Islamic Movement Party of Afghanistan, and was under treatment in India. Sources have said Mr. Anwari was suffering from cancer and died as he was he undergoing treatment in India. Born in 1956 in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan. Mr. Anwari has served in numerous governmental posts, including the provincial governor of
The New Yorker: A trained anthropologist who spent years doing field work for the World Bank, Ghani has been in and out of the Afghan government ever since the overthrow of the Taliban, in 2001. His abiding concern has been how to create viable institutions in poor countries overrun with violence, focusing on states that can’t
Tolo News: The Meshrano Jirga (the Upper House of Parliament) on Tuesday approved President Ashraf Ghani’s legislative decree on electoral reforms. After this, a joint commission of Meshrano Jirga and Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) will pave the way for bringing reforms into electoral bodies and the electoral system. This comes after the Wolesi Jirga rejected the
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 27, 2016 ISLAMABAD—An Afghan insurgent group says differences over the presence of U.S.-led international troops in Afghanistan have left its peace talks with the government deadlocked. The Hezb-i-Islami (HIA) faction led by fugitive former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has accused Afghan negotiators of unilaterally altering certain provisions in the peace deal
1TV: Afghanistan’s First Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum is apparently unsatisfied with his share in unity government. He said he didn’t approve a “fifty-fifty concept” from the very beginning. “Everybody knows General Dostum’s role… Where is our percentage?,” Dostum told 1TV in Faryab province. “We don’t have a single ambassador, what we have is only two governors.” Click here
Khaama Press: The Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has reportedly issued new impossible-to-meet demands to sign a peace agreement with the Afghan government. An official privy to the development has told The Associated Press that the new demands include cancellation of pacts with the United States, a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and that
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 14, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A Pakistan army officer and two Afghan soldiers have died, while at least 30 people were wounded on both sides in this week’s cross-border skirmishes, officials said. The situation at the busy Torkham border crossing remained tense, and the main gate there was still closed for a third
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 10, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Senior U.S. officials held “candid discussions” Friday with their counterparts in Pakistan on the recent drone attack that killed the Afghan Taliban’s chief in Pakistan, straining already uneasy bilateral relations. The prime minister’s adviser on foreign policy, Sartaj Aziz, led the Pakistani delegation. The U.S. team included