Posts published in “Day: September 5, 2016”

The Taliban militants group has expressed concerns regarding a possible delivery of further military equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). The group’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid issued a statement shortly after reports emerged regarding a possible visit by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to India to meet the country’s Prime Minister as the Indian administration is mulling to provide more military equipment to Afghan forces. Claiming that the group is the representative of…

Paktika provincial officials said that heavy clashes are underway between security forces and the Taliban in Omna district of Paktika province. The clash broke out Sunday morning when dozens of Taliban insurgents attacked the district, officials said. Taliban have reportedly captured several villages in the district. Meanwhile the provincial spokesman said that security forces had made a tactical retreat. No report on casualties reported as yet.http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/27092-paktika-villages-collapse-to-the-taliban

KABUL – Sources close to Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar have said the party is close to a final declaration on peace deal with the Afghan government. The sources have told RFE that the negotiations regarding the peace deal have concluded and preparations are underway for a final declaration. A spokesman for the High Peace Council of Afghanistan Mohammad Amin Muzafari has also said they expect to conclude the peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami. He said…

The author is a professor at the Guangdong Research Institute for International Strategies Before attending the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a short visit to Vietnam, becoming the first Indian head of government to visit the country in 15 years. For Indian media, which tend to grab every opportunity to hype up controversies in Sino-Indian ties, Modi’s tour of Vietnam was exciting news, and was believed to be a signal…

The author is based in Beijing as editorial adviser to the paper In February 1980, Wang Shouxin, the party secretary of a local fossil fuel company in Heilongjiang, was executed on the same day she was convicted of bribery to the tune of 530,000 yuan (HK$615,000). Her show trial, billed as the largest corruption case since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, took place in a stadium filled with more than 5,000 people…

Senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Liu Yunshan stressed that local-level Party organizations must be improved during a visit to the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Liu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, inspected rural areas, communities, enterprises and farms on Friday and Saturday. Local-level Party organizations are the foundation of the CPC’s governance and are at the forefront of connecting with and serving…

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she wanted her security advisers to help review a delayed nuclear power investment from China – a source of diplomatic tension – as she arrived for a G20 summit. May upset Chinese officials in July by delaying the $24 billion project that would see French firm EDF build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant in decades with the help of $8 billion from China. Speaking during her…

KABUL — On a recent evening, aides to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani invited several foreign journalists to his palace for an “informal conversation.” The journalists arrived to find a lavish picnic supper set up on the lawn. Soon after the guests sat down, the president unexpectedly strolled up and joined them. Ghani’s government is grappling with relentless poverty and insurgent violence, and the president faces unprecedented internal dissent and public attack. He is accused of…

A number of Parliament Members, military analysts and even the ambassador of the European Union to Afghanistan have criticized the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for allegedly issuing the rank of General in exchange for money. But the MoD rejects these claims and has said that it issues the rank only to individuals who deserve it. However no mention was made as to the number of Generals in the ministry. MPs and military analysts have said…

Jawzjan Police Chief General Rahmatullah Turkistani told TOLOnews that the terrorists’ war against security forces in Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul and Faryab provinces in the country’s north is being led by a Pakistani general named Sheikh Neda Mohammad. Turkistani added that the Pakistani general is fighting the war against Afghan security forces with the help of a number of Pakistani and Uzbek militants as well as Afghan Taliban. “A Pakistani general known as Sheikh Neda Mohammad is…