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GARDEZ (Pajhwok): The reburial of Habibullah Kalakani, known as Afghanistan’s bandit king, triggered a protest in southeaster Paktia province on Friday. Kalakani was reburied in Kabul hours after an attack on the people carrying his coffin. At least four people were injured and one security official killed. Kalakani served as king for a few months in 1929. He led the revolt against King Amanullah’s modeisation plans with the help of various tribes. A number of political figures, including former Balkh goveor Atta Mohammad Noor, ex-intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh and others, held a ceremony for the reburial of Kalakani and 16 of his aides. The remains were reburied on Shahr-i-Ara Mount in ...

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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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KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah on Tuesday insisted on the conductof Wolesi Jirga and district council elections, saying approval of the draft election law would pave the ground for the democratic exercise. Speaking at a gathering on ‘Evaluation of general suggestions for amendments to the constitution’, Abdullah said one of the important points of the political agreement on the national unity govement was electoral reform. He said the way for the Wolesi Jirga and district council elections had been opened after the cabinet approval of the draft election law.The cabinet approved the draft, underlining the imperative of a single-seat system at polling stations. “A...

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KABUL (Pajhwok): First Vice-President General Abdul Rashid Dostum on Sunday called on President Ashraf Ghani and the two leaders conferred on the security situation in north and northeaste provinces. A statement from the Presidential Palace said... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah, clinging to his position, on Monday insisted on complete implementation of the agreement on forming the national unity govement. Amid persisting differences with President Ashraf Ghani,... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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...

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...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah on Monday stressed the need for presenting a comprehensive and multifaceted national development strategy at the forthcoming summit in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Presiding over a meeting of the Cabinet’s finance committee, Abdullah said the document to be presented at the Oct 4-5 summit should convince the inteational community to continue assisting Afghanistan. A statement from the CEO’s office quoted Abdullah as saying that refugees, anti-narcotics campaign, foreign investment, environment protection, improvement in transport system and other issues should be given a space in the document. The Ministry of Finance is tasked ...

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): A former lawmaker from central Logar province, Dr. Asadullah Himmatyar, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kabul, police said on Sunday. The ex-legislator was gued down by unidentified assailants in the Stanikzai Meena area of the central capital, a Kabul police officer told Pajhwok Afghan News. Although police spokesman Basir Mujahid said he was unaware of the assassination, the crime branch confirmed the shooting of Dr. Himmatyar near his clinic. Haji Habibullah Stanikzai, the Logar provincial council chief, said Himmatyar was dued down at 9pm in his clinic in the 8th police district. The attackers managed to escape, he added. No one has been arrested so far in ...

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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...

By Hamid Tamkin on 18 July 2016 SHABARGHAN (Pajhwok): Four workers of MTN private telecommunication company were kidnapped by Taliban militants in Qush Tapa district of... read more ...