report in Tolo News, Dec 19,2020Four rockets hit the Bagram Airfield, a major US air base in Afghanistan, early Saturday morning but so far officials have not given details on possible casualties in the incident. The rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield from Qalandarkhil area in Parwan province, said Wahida Shahkar, spokesperson for Parwan governor. Bagram district governor Abdul Shakoor Qudosi said that the incident happened at around 6:30am on Saturday morning. He said that…
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By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 19 Dec 2020 at 01:14 PMAt least 53 Taliban fighters were killed in Afghan National Army’s reciprocal attacks. Ministry of Defense tweeted, that 10 Taliban were killed in Nazian district of Nangarhar province on Friday. According to the ministry, these insurgents were equipped with a large amount of ammunition and weapons, which were later destroyed by the security force members. In a similar tweet, MoD reports 12 Taliban…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 19 Dec 2020 at 01:44 PMHerat police report the mysterious murder of three people, including a man, a woman, and a child, in the Injil district of Herat province. Jilani Farhad, the spokesman for the governor of Herat, told Khaama Press, that the bodies of the three bodies, including a child, were found in the Kahdastan area of the Injil district of the province. Farhad added that police…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 19 Dec 2020 at 3:18 PMAmrullah Saleh, the first vice president, said that in a mosque in the fourth district, the imam was spreading propaganda against the security forces in imitation of ISIS and the Taliban. Saleh added, that the man was being instructed from far distances, and was being summoned today under a security pact to end his misdeeds and misleads. Saleh said the insults and humiliation…
THE Afghan peace process is in a critical phase as several developments within and outside Afghanistan are likely to have an impact on negotiations. Firstly, a new administration will enter the White House in January, and it remains to be seen if Joe Biden will continue Donald Trump’s policy of pulling American troops out of Afghanistan, or adopt a different path. Moreover, there is little forward movement in peace talks between the Afghan government and…
report in Tolo News, Dec 19,2020 at 2.24PMPresident Ashraf Ghani on Saturday met with the negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan who returned to the country this week after three months of talks with the Taliban in Doha where they agreed on procedural rules for the negotiations. The negotiators paused the talks for 23 days on December 14 and vowed to resume it on January 5 and added that during this time, they…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 19 Dec 2020 02:28 PMUnited Nations Security Council extended the mandate of team monitoring sanctions against individuals and entities associated with the Taliban. The council extended the sanctions based on serious concerns over the ongoing violence in Afghanistan. The 15 member council ordered a monitoring team to gather information on instances of non-compliance with the measures by unanimously adopting resolution 2557 (2020). According to the statement, this would…
report in Tolo News, Dec 18,2020 at 7.50pmAt least 15 civilians were killed and 20 more were wounded in an explosion at a gathering in Gelan district, Ghazni province, on Friday afternoon, the Interior Ministry Affairs says. The explosives were loaded on a motorbike that was parked near a house in Agho Jan village in Gelan district where a group of people had gathered to attend a Quran recitation ceremony, the Interior Affairs Ministry’s spokesman…
* Qureshi says next round of talks between Taliban and Afghan government to be held on Jan 5 * Taliban acknowledge Pakistan’s efforts for peace and stability in Afghanistan by Tahir Khan in daily Times, Dec 17, 2020 Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that a ceasefire in Afghanistan is not the responsibility of the Taliban alone but all sides to the conflict are responsible to achieve the objective. Qureshi was speaking as…
report in Khaama Press, 16 Dec 2020 at 09:39 AMKabul police say two people have been injured in a magnetic mine explosion in the 11th district of Kabul’s 500-family district. Ferdows Faramarz, a spokesman for the Kabul Police Command said on Wednesday, that a hilux-type vehicle was targeted by a mine at around 07:34 am this morning in PD11 of the 500-family area. Faramarz added that as a result of the explosion, two people were…
Taliban Visit: edit in the Nation, Dec 17, 2020
A delegation of the Taliban Political Commission (TPC), under Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar’s leadership is in Pakistan to hold consultations on the Afghan peace process. The arrival of the Taliban delegation is significant as it follows an anxious trip of America’s Special Envoy for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to Islamabad on Monday. Pakistan is already aware of the apprehensions of the US; the biggest fear of the current administration is the uptick in violence across…