VOA News / February 24, 2016 Akmal Dawi After more than a year of political wrangling with allies in Afghanistan’s national unity government, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani this week announced the composition of a new seven-member High Peace Council (HPC), and again called on the Taliban and other insurgent groups to stop fighting and choose
AOPNEWS | February 11, 2016 On July 18, 2015, Afghan actor Abdul Hafiz Khan decided to audition for a role in a new Bollywood movie, starring super star actor Aamir Khan. After more than 50 auditions, the 21-year old finally landed a role in Aamir Khan’s new movie, Dangal, which is scheduled to be released
AOPNEWS | January 7, 2016 Earlier this week, the Taliban faction loyal to Mullah Mansur posted on its website that DAESH (aka ISIS) is a part of an anti-Islamic western conspiracy against them, and they vowed to purge them from eastern Nangarhar province, as they allegedly had done in other parts of the country. More
Khaama Press: “Hizb-e-Islami favours Afghan-led and Afghan-owned talks as we have always argued that war is no solution to the problem,” said Ghairat Baheer who heads the political commission of Hizb-e-Islami under the leadership of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Click here to read more (external link).