Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani’s first VP General Abdul Rashid Dostum on Monday said that he had not been injured during a Taliban siege in Faryab, terming CEO Abdullah Abdullah’s remarks inappropriate. Presiding over a meeting of council of ministers on Monday, Abdullah said that Dostum had been slightly injured in a Taliban siege in Faryab. However
QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — A senior security official Brigadier Abdul Qadir lost his life after Taliban militants ambushed his motorcade in the western Badghis province with Qala-e-Naw as its capital, 555 km northwest of Kabul on Monday, provincial police chief Abdul Rauf Taj said. “Brigadier Abdul Qadir the commander of Special Force of
1TV: Islamic State militant group is planning to deploy as many as 7,000 fighters in northern Afghanistan to carry out terror attacks, First Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum said Saturday. Visiting Faryab to clear the northern province from Taliban insurgents, Dostum stated that the IS fighters in north Afghanistan would include nationals of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Tajikistan,
Khaama Press: The convoy of security guards of the first vice president General Abdul Rashid Dostum was ambushed by the Taliban militants in north of the country. According to local officials in Jawzjan province, the incident took place in the vicinity of Khwajah Dokoh district. Provincial police chief Gen. Khwajah Rahmatullah Turkistani said a brief clash took place
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 1, 2016 The belated funeral ceremony for a controversial former Afghan monarch turned violent in Kabul on September 1, with at least one person killed and several wounded after gunshots were fired during a procession attended by thousands of members of Afghanistan’s ethnic Tajik minority. Mourners carrying
The First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum harshly criticized President Ghani during a gathering in Kabul following a deadlock in the Government of National Unity by CEO Abdullah’s remarks. According to a video released online by Enayatullah Babar Farahmand, the Chief of Staff of the Office of the First Vice President, Gen. Dostum is seen
VOA News Ayaz Gul July 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—An international human rights group Sunday demanded authorities in Afghanistan prosecute militia forces linked to a top government official for recent killings and other abuses against civilians in the northern Faryab province. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that its probe into the late June attack
History News Network: It all began on April 25th 2016 when Matthew Rosenberg wrote an article in the New York Times titled “Afghanistan’s Vice President is Barred From Entering the U.S.” which stated that First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek, “has been accused of war crimes and is not welcome in the United
1TV: Afghanistan’s First Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum is apparently unsatisfied with his share in unity government. He said he didn’t approve a “fifty-fifty concept” from the very beginning. “Everybody knows General Dostum’s role… Where is our percentage?,” Dostum told 1TV in Faryab province. “We don’t have a single ambassador, what we have is only two governors.” Click here
Khaama Press: Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum has asked the acting provincial governor Ata Mohammad Noor not to spark tensions among Jamiat-e-Islami and Junbish-e-Milli parties. Ata Mohammad Noor is a prominent political figure and Chief Executive of Jamiat-e-Islami who has reportedly blamed Gen. Dostum among several other prominent political figures for the recent upheavals in