Ayaz Gul VOA News November 5, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Islamist Taliban government has harshly criticized U.S. President Joe Biden for calling Afghanistan a “God-forsaken place” and vowed to rebuild the war-ravaged country without any foreign support. “Those making such remarks are doing so out of their frustration and envy for Afghanistan,” Chief Taliban spokesperson
Amnesty International: “The Office of the Prosecutor must reconsider its overtly selective approach which deprioritised investigations against powerful actors, including the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and members of the Unites States military and CIA, to ensure justice to all victims of the Afghan conflict.” Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A U.S. government agency Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking it from fully assessing about $1.1 billion in U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in its quarterly report that
HSToday: When U.S. troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the government, world leaders and others braced themselves for what the future might hold for Afghanistan and its citizens. Many feared the worst, and the Taliban did not disappoint. It claimed to have reformed its ways but, with a long history of
Ariana: Hekmatyar said that the sides have already started talks and achieved some progress. Limiting airstrikes, printing of new afghani banknotes and increasing cash aid are likely to be part of the agreement between the two sides. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: A member of the Afghanistan Trust Fund, Shah Mohammad Mehrabi, said that the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW) is due to deliver new Afghani banknotes to Afghanistan within one month. This comes as a spokesman for the US Department of State, Ned Price, said at a press conference that the US and its
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 23, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have sharply reacted to reports a U.S. military officer had forcibly taken a child away from an Afghan couple who arrived in the United States as refugees. The couple filed a federal lawsuit against Marine Corps Attorney Major Joshua Mast and his wife last
Michael Hughes AOPNEWS October 22, 2022 James Gordon Meek, an ABC reporter and Emmy-winning producer, has not been heard from since the FBI raided his home on April 27, according to The Rolling Stone, and his disappearance might be related to potentially explosive information he possessed on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. The
Tolo News: He made the remarks while speaking about the Afghan frozen funds in a Zoom conference. “So I am very pleased to say that in the past 24 hours, we finally have seen the conclusion of currency transaction… this will mean that new printed Afghani will replace banknotes that … are virtually disintegrating in
CTVNews: This is a story about how one U.S. Marine became fiercely determined to bring home an Afghan war orphan, and praised it as an act of Christian faith to save her. Letters, emails and documents submitted in federal filings show that he used his status in the U.S. Armed Forces, appealed to high-ranking Trump