Ariana: According to Global Terrorism Index 2020 Afghanistan remains the country most impacted by terrorism and was subjected to 26 of the world’s 50 worst terrorist attacks last year. The report stated that while terrorism deaths in the country declined in 2019 for the first time in three years, the Taliban remained the world’s deadliest
Tolo News: The High Council for National Reconciliation on Thursday said there is progress in the peace negotiations in Doha, but a recent decision made by the negotiating teams has not been approved by the two sides’ leaders—the Afghan government and the Taliban leadership. “(The negotiating teams’) real intentions are not for a political solution
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is commending outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump for initiating the landmark peace process aimed at ending the Afghan conflict, America’s longest war. “It is after a long time that there is a prospect of [Afghan] peace. … It was a great
By Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan say two back-to-back bombs went off Tuesday in central Bamiyan province, killing at least 14 people and injuring 50 others. The deadly violence in the predominantly minority Shiite Hazara region is the first such attack since the United States and its allies invaded
Ariana: Presidential Palace spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said at a press conference on Wednesday that no progress has been made in Doha regarding peace talks. According to Sediqqi, the Taliban’s demands contradict the Afghan Constitution. He confirmed to reporters that Masoom Stanikzai, head of the Republic of Afghanistan’s negotiating team had been in Kabul. Click here
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 24, 2020 The international community pledged $3 billion in development support for Afghanistan in 2021, and a total of some $12 billion for four years, but conditioned the funds on upholding human rights in the war-torn country amid faltering peace talks with the Taliban. The pledges, made at a donor
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 24, 2020 Amid concerns that countries are focused inward on the coronavirus outbreak, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has warned that any reduction in foreign aid to Afghanistan will lead to “major setbacks” in public services, economic activity, and living standards. International aid “is important not only for development but also
By Ayaz Gul VOA News November 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – An international charity says an average of five children have been killed or wounded every day in war-ravaged Afghanistan over the past 14 years. Save the Children noted in its report Monday the South Asian nation is among the 11 most dangerous countries in the world
Ariana: Ahmad Zia Saraj, the acting head of the national directorate of security (NDS), said Monday that because the Taliban has active and secure strongholds in Pakistani cities, the group has been able to intensify the conflict in Afghanistan. Saraj said this was enabling the Taliban to continue a proxy war. Saraj stressed that the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 21, 2020 KABUL — Afghanistan’s government has blamed the Taliban for about two dozen rockets that hit residential areas of Kabul during the morning rush hour on November 21, killing at least eight people and wounding about a dozen more. The violence occurred just hours before U.S. Secretary of State