Ayaz Gul / VOA News February 18, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, called Saturday for the safe and unconditional release of two staff members abducted in northern Afghanistan earlier this month. The abductees were part of an ICRC convoy transporting food for livestock of poverty-stricken farmers in the northern Jowzjan
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 8, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Authorities in northern Afghanistan say Islamic State terrorists have killed at least six local employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Jowzjan province government spokesman Reza Ghafoori told VOA Wednesday’s attack occurred in the Qushtipa district and the assailants also took away two ICRC
Mirwais Bezhan VOA News January 7, 2017 A group of 150 women in the northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan have taken up arms to fight Taliban and Islamic State militants. Some of the women, who live in the violence-plagued districts of Qoosh Tapa and Darz A’ab, say Taliban and IS militants killed the male members
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 22, 2016 Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has refused a summons by the country’s attorney general over allegations that he and his bodyguards assaulted and abducted a political rival at a sports event in northern Afghanistan last month. On December 22, Dostum’s chief of staff, Enayatullah Babur Farhamand, called
Tolo News: Michael McKinley, United States (U.S) ambassador to Afghanistan, on Saturday said allegations lodged by Ahmad Eschi, against First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum should be investigated transparently. McKinley said he was shocked to hear of the allegations by Eshchi that Dostum had allegedly ordered his men to beat him up and sexually assault
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 14, 2016 A former governor has accused Afghan First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum of ordering his rape with an assault rifle and other forms of torture after he was abducted by Dostum and gunmen loyal to the ex-warlord. The allegations follow reports last month, denied by Dostum,
Tolo News: Recounting the details of the assault, Eshchi claimed that first he was beaten by Dostum’s bodyguards and then he was taken to his house. He said it was here that Dostum tried to abuse him sexually. “You will not believe what I will say. He [Dostum] said first I want to have sex with
Tolo News: Arman Bik, one of Ahmad Eshchi’s sons, on Wednesday said his father, the former governor of Jawzjan, was beaten up by First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum’s guards for not having kissed the hand of the high-ranking official. Arman claims he was also beaten by Dostum’s men. Click here to read more (external
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 30, 2016 Afghan First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has rejected allegations that he and his bodyguards assaulted and abducted a political rival at a sports event in northern Afghanistan last week. The incident allegedly occurred in Dostum’s native Jowzjan Province on November 25 during a game of “buzkashi,” an
RFE/RL’s Afghan Service November 25, 2016 Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have killed at least 20 people, mostly children, this week in a remote northern province in Afghanistan, local officials say. The deaths occurred in the rural Darzab district of the Jawzjan Province, district Governor Rahmatullah Hashar told RFE/RL on November 25. Hashar said all