Afghanistan’s U.N. ambassador has said that more Taliban should be blacklisted by the United Nations if violence by the group continues in the country. Removal from U.N. blacklist has been one of major conditions posed by Taliban for joining peace talks. However, Mahmoud Saiqal, Afghanistan’s ambassador to U.N., was not optimistic if the insurgent group would
Tolo News: The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) has called for a stronger presence of women in local governance in the country. IDGL has stepped up efforts to increase the number of women in institutions in the capital and in the provinces, an official of the IDLG said Monday. Click here for more information (external ink).
1TV: U.S. Republican presidential front-runner candidate Donald Trump has said that his country’s forces need to stay in Afghanistan to protect Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. “I think you have to stay in Afghanistan for a while, because of the fact that you are right next to Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, and we have to protect that.
Khaama Press: Direct peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban militants group has reportedly been postponed for a week or two, a day after Taliban rejected participation in the talks. Javid Faisal, deputy spokesman for Chief Executive Officer, has said the talks will likely start with some delays, despite the government was fully prepared for the
1TV: Afghan lawmakers have marked down the unity government’s performance, a new survey by Democracy International has found. Out of 215 members of the parliament interviewed, only seven percent were satisfied said the government was going in the right direction. The survey found that insecurity, poverty, poor governance and corruption have been major challenges the government is facing.
VOA News March 3, 2016 KABUL—Afghanistan’s chief peace negotiator says talks with Taliban-led insurgent groups are a “last opportunity” for accord, despite increasing violence during the past six months by armed opposition factions. Direct peace negotiations between Afghan government and Taliban delegates are expected to take place in neighboring Pakistan later this week. A four-nation
Khaama Press: The Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif met with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani during a brief visit to capital Kabul. A spokesman for Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani military, General Asim Bajwa, said, Gen. Sharif had a brief stop over at Kabul to meet with
Tolo News: Ahmad Zia Massoud, President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Representative on Reform and Good Governance, in an interview with TOLO news said that there are certain circles that do not want Taliban to be suppressed in military operations. Massoud said that these circles in collusion with the Taliban do not let the security forces move from
Tolo News: Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday said that lack of coordination between security forces and a lack of cooperation between people and the Afghan National Police force members is the main reason for the increase in insecurity in the country. “People can say their pain to the security officials only
Bakhtar News Agency: Kabul (BNA) While Taliban have being accused by international sources and organizations for using children in battlefields, recently the national defense ministry troops released 35 civilians from the captivity of notorious Taliban in Helmand province. According to BNA report, recently the forces of national defense ministry conducting a special operation in Nad Ali district