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Khaama: US former President Donald Trump on Thursday night in a TV interview with Fox News claimed that by leaving sophisticated military equipment, roughly worth $85 billion in Afghanistan, the country is now the second biggest seller of weapons after the US in the world. While criticizing the hasty withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan, Trump said, “We were very reckless in leaving Afghanistan, and I think it was the most shameful and weak moment in the history of our country.” “No one can believe it, the biggest seller of military equipment after the US is Afghanistan,” he added. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama: Two people, including a doctor, have died due to the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus within the past two weeks in Jawzjan province of Afghanistan. The provincial director for public health in Jawzjan province, Zabiullah Jussaini, said that the CCHF virus claimed the lives of two people, including a doctor, on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. According to the official, five more people have fully recovered after contracting the contagious disease from a sick butcher who attended the public hospital for medical attention weeks ago. 
Ariana: The United States has warned that allegations of war crimes against Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could prevent U.S. forces from working with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment, Australia’s defense force chief said on Wednesday. Gen. Angus Campbell told a Senate committee that he received a letter from the U.S. defense attache in Canberra in March 2021 suggesting the elite SAS may have been “tainted” by the allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan raised in an Australian war crime investigation report that was made public in 2000, Associated Press reported. 
Khaama: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Higher Education in a letter has warned university lecturers to avoid criticizing the Taliban regime in their research work, sources reported. In the letter, it is stressed that university lecturers should have a good command of both national languages (Farsi and Pashto) and utilize national terminologies rather than using terms that are alien to Afghan people and culture. Banning the use of the term “Danishgah” which has a Farsi root, which translates university in English has repeatedly sparked widespread reactions in universities and media in Afghanistan. While describing the term “Danishgah” as foreign, the officials have banned using the term. The former government officials and the Taliban did not have sensitivity towards non-Persian words such as Urdu and English. Previously, the Taliban authorities repeatedly removed Farsi words from official plaques of universities in different parts of the country. 
Ariana: Marking World No Tobacco Day, Public Health Ministry officials said on Wednesday that 27% of Afghans regularly use tobacco, of which 2.7% are women. Mohammad Hassan Ghiyasi, Deputy Minister of Policy and Planning of the Ministry of Public Health, said that tobacco kills eight million people worldwide every year and tobacco smoke is one of the main causes of air pollution, which causes dangerous diseases such as lung cancer and heart diseases. Citing a national survey conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization, he added that nearly 20 percent of Afghan people use smokeless tobacco, mainly Naswar.