Tolo News: The former head of the Electoral Complaints Commission, Abdul Aziz Aryaee, and two former members of the commission, Humaira Haqmal and Abdul Basir Fayiz, were accused of reducing or adding to parliamentary candidates votes in Kunar province and misuse of authority. Meanwhile, seven former members of Independent Election Commission including Abdul Badi Sayyad, Wasima
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 2, 2019 KABUL — The Taliban has agreed “in principle” that any Afghan territory it controls in the future will not be used as a safe haven for terrorists to launch attacks against the United States and its allies, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has told RFE/RL.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 28, 2019 Amid “escalating violence” in Afghanistan, its human rights community is under “intensifying attacks” from both the authorities and armed groups, according to Amnesty International. Human rights defenders and activists in Afghanistan have been largely ignored by the Afghan government and the international community as they face “intimidation, harassment,
Press TV August 19, 2019 A series of explosions have hit the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar during the country’s 100th anniversary of its independence, wounding dozens of people including women and children. Afghan officials said at least 10 bombings struck restaurants and public squares in the provincial capital of Jalalabad on Monday, leaving at
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 18, 2019 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has condemned as “barbaric” an attack on a wedding party in Kabul that killed at least 63 people and left 182 others injured and called an extraordinary security meeting to discuss ways to avoid such “lapses.” The radical militant group Islamic State (IS) has
Tolo News: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hizb-e-Islami party who runs for president, says the incumbent government is “weak” and cannot decide on major issues in the country and that it will “collapse” if the US forces leave the war-ravaged Afghanistan. “There is no doubt in US forces withdrawal [from Afghanistan]. They will definitely leave [the country],”
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 14, 2019 In the fall of 2010, U.S. officials secretly met a young Taliban representative outside the southern German city of Munich. Tayyib Agha, a member of the militant group’s political wing, presented the U.S. diplomats with a road map for a negotiated end to the war.
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 11, 2019 KABUL — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has rejected foreign interference and called for the presidential election to be held next month as planned, amid talks between the United States and the Taliban aimed at bringing the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan to an end. “Without a legitimate
Tolo News: The Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is running for president, at a campaign rally on Wednesday slammed the Afghan government leaders as “foreigners’ slaves” and called the government “un-Islamic”. Mr. Hekmatyar said the incumbent government — which is led by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah — has been “occupied” by
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 2, 2019 The United States is ready to withdraw a large number of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban guarantees to start direct negotiations with Kabul on ending the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, U.S. media reported on August 1. The Washington Post and CNN cited unnamed sources