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KABUL (Pajhwok): Firs Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum on Thursday hit out at President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for centralising the power and waed to take final decision about his future in a grand gathering. Addressing a crowd of his supporters in his Kabul residence, Dostum said the president kept all powers with him and apologised to his followers for not materialising the pledges he made with them during election campaign. “I want to talk to the people in details. I am the son of a farmer, lived my life in a village and worked in the field, but now I caot resolved the problems of my people. Some ask me why you don’t go to the office. What will I do there when I have no power and m...

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah have met in an attempt to iron out their differences on key issues, including electoral reforms. The tension-defusing talks between the national unity govement... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Security officials from Afghanistan and Pakistan have failed to reach any agreement on reopening the Chaman border crossing. Pakistan closed the border after an attack on the Friendship Gate by Afghan nationals on Friday. Pakistan's national flag was also torched. A flag meeting, requested by the Afghan govement, on reopening the gate fizzled out on Saturday afteoon when the two sides adopted strict security measures. As the gate stays shut, traffic the two neighbouring countries has been suspended. Supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan have also come to a halt. "Long queues of trucks and vehicles could be seen on both sides of the border," Attal Khan Achakzai, a reside...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Electricity supply to Kunduz City, the provincial capital of northe Kunduz province, has been suspended after the supply lines cut off as a result of clashes in Alchin locality on the outskirts of Kunduz City, an official said on Friday. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Enlightenment Movement on Wednesday once again stressed TUTAP project’s implementation through central Bamyan province and set the govement a two-week deadline to accept their demand. Mohammad Arif Rahmani, a member of the movement, told a press conference in Kabul: “If the govement ignores our demand until the Chehlam of Deh Mazang suicide attack martyrs, the Enlightenment Movement would get more strength and increase its civil activities.” On July 23, more than 80 people were killed and 230 wounded in twin suicide attacks that ripped through a protest demonstration in Deh Mazang area of Kabul. The govement appointed a special commission for investigation into the inci...

By Hamayon Zaheen on 16 August 2016 FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): The Taliban have executed six people, including five security persoel, in the Bakwa district of weste Farah province,... read more ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan ’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani has said the massacre of iocent people will continue as long as security agencies aid militant outfits. Also a leading religious scholar, Sherani... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

By Qutbuddin Kohi on 09 August 2016 MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Electricity supply to Maimana, the capital of northweste Faryab province, and three other districts has been suspended after the Taliban... read more ...

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WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The United States on Wednesday designated Af-Pak-based Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Europe-based Mohamed Abrini as global terrorists. As a result of these designations, all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Abrini have any interest is blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Abrini, the State Department said. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) is a splinter group of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) based in the Af-Pak border region. The group, founded by a former TTP leader in August 2014, has staged multiple attacks in the region targeting civilians, religious minorities, military persoel...

GARDEZ/SHARANA (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s chief for the Orgun district of southeaste Paktika province was among nine insurgents killed in a clash with security forces, officials said on Wednesday. Nabiullah Pirkhel, the goveor’s spokesman, told... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SAR-I-PUL (Pajhwok): Taliban militants on Monday shot dead a 19-year-old woman over ruing away from her in-laws’ home in Kohistanat district of northe Sar-i-Pul province, an official said. The early moing incident took place in Bidastan locality of the district, the goveor spokesman, Zabihullah Amani, told Pajhwok Afghan News, identifying the victim as Azada. “Azada fled her husband house after becoming a victim of family violence. Her husband was in Iran and she was beaten and tortured by her in laws,” he said. She sought police protection in Sayad district and the police shifted her to the women’s shelter where she spent six months before being released to her brothers who promised her sp...

KABUL (Pajhwok): A powerful explosion shook capital Kabul Monday at around 1:30am, according to an eye witness. The explosion was possibly took place in the limits of 9 th police district of capital Kabul. It was so powerful that waked up people and... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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KABUL (Pajhwok): A large number of protestors in Kabul on Thursday demanded the route of a transnational power import project be changed to pass through central Bamyan province. The protestors, marching from Masli Mazari area in the sixth police district, chanted“we want Justice, be united for your freedom, TUTAP is our right and no to discrimination”.’ The Pajhwok Afghan News reporter at the scene said thousands of people participated in the rally.One of the protestors, Mohammad Daud, said their demand was changing the TUTAP project route to Bamyan. He added: “This protest is not held by a particular tribe;our aim is justice to the province.” On Friday, Vice-President Sarwar Danish asked p...

BAMYAN (Pajhwok): Once again, a number of people on Friday staged a protest demonstration in central Bamyan province to renew their demand for routing a multimillion transnational power import project through the impoverished province. This was for a fourth time, the people of Bamyan staged a protest demonstration under the slogan “Our right is not silence” and asked the govement to route the TUTAP project, designed to deliver electricity from Turkmenistan and Tajikistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan, via Bamyan rather than the northeaste district of Salang. The 500volt high voltage transmission line will make power available to millions of Afghans by coecting preexisting infrastructure. One o...

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