VOA News March 10, 2022 WASHINGTON — After making a dramatic escape from Kabul last August, Zarifa Ghafari, once Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor, vowed to return to her native country. “Leaving [Afghanistan] doesn’t mean I’ve left forever,” she told VOA after evacuating to Germany. “I’m optimistic that I’ll return to my country very soon.” Last week,
Ariana: Former president Hamid Karzai has said that while the war has ended in Afghanistan, the country has not achieved peace and stability as it desired. The former president urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to facilitate the return of their political opponents who are living outside the country. Click here to read more
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 5, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A senior leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban, listed by the United States as a global terrorist, made a maiden public appearance Saturday, his first since the Islamist group seized power in August, days before U.S.-led international forces withdrew from the country. Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s
Tolo News: Zarifa Ghafari, the former mayor of Maidan Shahr in Maidan Wardak province, has returned to the country. Ghafari was appointed mayor of Maidan Wardak by former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in 2018. She has worked in many government positions. “I came here to help—and, if I am able, to build trust between
8am: Footages posted on social media show that Khost Governor has ordered the residents of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan to remove Afghanistan’s national flag (black, red, green) from the rooftops and vehicles. Click here to read more (external link). Related Remarks of Khost’s Governor on Tricolor Flag Spark Reactions
Tolo News: Shaheen Appointed Head of Doha Office Suhail Shaheen, the Islamic Emirate’s designated permanent representative to the UN, has been appointed head of the Islamic Emirate’s political office in Doha. A source from the Islamic Emirate told TOLO news that Shaheen will simultaneously hold the post of the Kabul-designated permanent representative to the UN.
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 21, 2022 Afghanistan’s Taliban Monday strongly defended their government against fresh criticism by the United States that the male-only leadership in Kabul is “dominated by one ethnicity” and lacks inclusivity. “This is invalid and we reject it,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told VOA when asked for his reaction to the
Tolo News: The Afghan ambassador in Washington has stepped down from her post, a senior official at the embassy said, calling the new restrictions imposed by the US Department of State on the embassy the reason for her resignation. Adela Raz is the third senior Afghan diplomat who stepped down from her position within the
واقف حکیمی، عضو رهبری حزب جمعیت اسلامی، شاخه عطا، تایید می کند که رئیس استخبارات پاکستان با عطا محمدنور و برخی دیگر از رهبران سیاسی مخالف طالبان دیدار کرده است. ظاهراً، در این دیدار موضوع تشکیل حکومت فراگیر در افغانستان بحث شده است. pic.twitter.com/wJsdVJwUjO — افغانستان اینترنشنال – خبر فوری (@AFIntlBrk) February 14, 2022
Aamaj: Deputy of Jamaat-e-Islami party led by Salahuddin Rabbani, and former vice president, Ahmad Zia Massoud says that Taliban as an extremist religious group have taken the power by force, and there is no legitimacy for them. Mullah Hibatullah is an unknown, vague and mysterious person, who has the main power. Prime minister makes decisions