M. Hanif Atmar, a presidential candidate, warned the government Monday during a press conference in Kabul, saying that the continuation of the current administration’s terms is unacceptable after May 22 and that Ashraf Ghani must step down.
Three members of the Haqqani militant group have been arrested in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, the government said on Monday.
M. Hanif Atmar, a presidential candidate, warned the government Monday during a press conference in Kabul, saying that the continuation of the current administration’s terms is unacceptable after May 22 and that Ashraf Ghani must step down.
Afghanistan’s IEC on Monday rejected the UN proposal of delaying the provincial councils and Ghazni parliamentary elections.
During a meeting with a number of disabled, Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah said that the government of Afghanistan was making effort to provide further facilities to disabled and terrorist incidents victims’ families.
Taliban gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday evening, killing three police while they were having their fast-breaking meal called iftar.
The killing and suffering of the Afghan people is the only result of the ongoing foreign military campaign in Afghanistan.
Jamshid Rasooli said that the former election officials including heads of Independent Election Commission and Electoral Complaints Commission were formally accused of committing fraud in the last year’s parliamentary elections specifically in two provinces.
German Special envoy on Afghanistan Markus Potzel at the head of a delegation has reportedly met with Taliban chief of political office Mullah Baradar in Doha, Qatar.
The head of the UN mission in Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto in a meeting with members of the Independent Election Commission in Kabul on Sunday called for the separate holding of the presidential, the provincial councils and the Ghazni parliamentary elections.
Deputy Minister of Tourism, Finance and Administration of the Ministry of Information and Culture Associate Prof. Sayeda Mojgan Mostafavi and Journalist Support Fund board members called on Second Vice President Sarwar Danesh here yesterday.
The Central Bank on Sunday confirmed that a Kabul-based Iranian bank, the Arian Bank, has been closed over money laundering charges.
The lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Parliament, on Sunday divided over accepting the new Speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani who was declared winner after a voting session on Saturday.
The new lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Parliament, on Saturday elected Mir Rahman Rahmani as the new speaker of the house.
A peace agreement with the Taliban is unlikely to be struck before the September election in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani’s special envoy has said.
At least nine civilians were killed and 15 others were wounded in a traffic accident in Farsi district in Herat province on Saturday, the provincial governor’s spokesman Jailani Farhad said.
In a statement, the United Nations said that the militant group has carried out dozens of terror attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in a meeting with President Ghani’s Special Envoy and the head of the High Peace Council’s secrtariat expressed her country’s full support to sustainable peace, economic development and stability in Afghanistan, a spokesman for India’s Foreign External Affairs Ministry said in a tweet.
The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Saturday reacted to a number of “comments” on priorities of the United States in Afghanistan.
United States Department of Defense requested funding to facilitate delegate’s expenses during peace talks.
The Embassy of the United States in Kabul has welcomed the finalization of the Kabul Parliamentary election results in a statement on Thursday, May 16.
