Tolo News:Taliban in a statement has said the group welcomes the Following former Jihadi leader Mohammad Ismail’s call for peace with Mujahideen. Mohammad Ismail who was former governor of Herat and ex-minister of energy and water under Hamid Karzai’s government last week called on the Taliban to sit on negotiations table with Mujahideen leaders. He
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 23, 2018 Leaders and senior officials from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and India have inaugurated the start of work on the Afghan part of a multibillion-dollar pipeline project that they hope will meet the region’s energy needs. The Afghan and Turkmen presidents, Ashraf Ghani and Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, were joined by Pakistani
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 22, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan will host leaders from Turkmenistan, Pakistan and India on Friday for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Afghan section of a much-delayed multi-billion dollar gas pipeline connecting the four nations. The $10 billion mega project, known as Turkmenistan-Pakistan-Afghanistan-India, or TAPI, will connect Central Asia with South Asia
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 15, 2018 The HALO Trust demining group says it has cleared Afghanistan’s Herat Province of landmines as part of a 10-year project funded by the British government. The organization said on February 15 that its Afghan staff had cleared more than 600 minefields in the western province, an effort it said has
Tolo News: Last year Iran issued 100,000 work visas to Afghans and have reportedly doubled the quota for this year. Hundreds of Afghans are lining up outside the Iranian consulate in the western province of Herat to get visas every day. Click here to read more (external link).
KABUL, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Head of a delegation who was tasked last week to visit Afghanistan’s western Herat province and check corruption there has been detained on charge of receiving bribe, local media reported Sunday. “Head of a delegation who was recently assigned to review the situation in the Municipality of Herat city and check
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 21, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan commando forces have ended an overnight siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel that resulted in the deaths of at least 18 people, including 14 foreign nationals. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed the death toll on Sunday for attack that began late Saturday on the Intercontinental hotel
Tolo News: Mohammad Ismail Khan, a former Jihadi leader and a member of the leadership team of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, on Sunday said at a press conference in Herat that he supported Atta Mohammad Noor’s defiance regarding the Presidential Palace’s decision to replace him and insisted that Noor should stay on as Balkh governor. Click here
Tolo News: The Taliban controls at least 200 schools in insecure districts in Herat, local officials said on Tuesday. Chairman of the Herat education department Ahmad Razaq Ahmadi has confirmed the report and said he is satisfied with the monitoring of these schools by the Taliban in their strongholds. Responding to Ahmadi’s remarks about the Taliban,
Press TV / September 26, 2017 Twin bomb attacks and a gun fight have claimed the lives of at least six policemen in Afghanistan. In the first attack, two police officers died in a roadside bombing in the western province of Herat on Tuesday. Jelani Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said three other