Khaama Press: Mr. Habibzai issued a statement online on Tuesday night and said his resignation has been approved by the President. He did not elaborate further regarding the circumstances surrounding his decision to step down as Kabul Mayor. In the meantime, unconfirmed reports indicate that the Kabul Mayor has been fired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Click
1TV: The decision comes after the U.S. and Afghanistan refused to take part in the meeting to which Russia invited 14 countries and the Taliban. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani talked over the phone on Monday. Click here to read more (external link).
MOSCOW, August 26 (Sputnik) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani rejected the resignation of Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami, Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak and the National Directorate of Security chief, Masoom Stanekzai, local media reported on Sunday. Ghani had ordered the officials to continue their work, the Pajhwok news agency reported. The incident followed the
MOSCOW, August 21 (Sputnik) – All militants who were involved in a major rocket attack on the presidential palace in Kabul have likely been eliminated, local media reported Tuesday, citing the Afghan Interior Ministry. Earlier in the day, Afghan media reported that the Taliban fired up to 22 rockets in Kabul during President Ashraf Ghani’s
MOSCOW, August 21 (Sputnik) – Several missiles were fired at Kabul during the speech of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, local media reported Tuesday. According to the TOLOnews broadcaster, the attack occurred at 09:00 local time (04:30 GMT). The rockets were fired at the Presidential Palace and
Tolo News: Ahmad Zia Massoud accuses government of complicity with the Taliban and said the [Ghani] administration is helping the Taliban financially and even militarily. Massoud said the administration is helping the Taliban financially and even militarily. “The only source for finance and equipping of terrorist groups particularly Taliban is government itself. They tell the
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 17, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan has alleged hospitals in neighboring Pakistan are receiving and treating Taliban insurgents who had been injured in recent fighting with Afghan forces in the southeastern Ghazni city. President Ashraf Ghani, while speaking to a gathering of officials, clerics and residents in Ghazni Friday, also said that
Eisa Ayoobi via The Globe Post: Ashraf Ghani and Zalmay Khalilzad have been the most influential Afghan-Americans to impact U.S.-Afghanistan relations over the decades. Their education and Washington-based experience have earned them rhetoric sway and a vastly influential network of friends. However, their ethnonationalism-aspired Afghanistan “vision” has cost the U.S. thousands of lives and “trillions of
Political commentators and cartoonists are taking aim at President Ashraf Ghani’s recent comment about offering ice cream to the Taliban. ***
MOSCOW, August 7 (Sputnik) – Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that the country’s government was working on another ceasefire with the Taliban group, which would be timed to the upcoming Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, local media reported on Monday. Ghani had made the statement at a meeting with Afghan political parties, during which he