Report in Khaama Press, 13 Nov 2020 at 02:58 PMKABUL, Afghanistan – Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg tackled ongoing peace process with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, dubbing it a “long and hard road towards the peace talks”. In Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has around 12,000 troops in the Alliance’s biggest mission. “Spoke with @ashrafghani on the situation in #Afghanistan where it has been a long and hard road towards the peace…
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Report in Dawn, November 13th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Bajwa on Thursday expressed hopes for better ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was talking to Afghanistan’s new ambassador to Pakistan Najibullah Alikhil, who called on him at the General Headquarters. Gen Bajwa and Amb Alikhil, during the meeting, discussed regional security situation, ongoing Afghan peace process, border management and defence and security cooperation. Amb Alikhil, who was designated by Kabul as…
report in ToloNews, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:16 AMAziz Yuldash, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), was killed in an operation by Afghan forces in the northern province of Faryab, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Thursday. The operation was launched in Sayed Gul village in Ghormach district in the province, the ministry said, adding that and Yuldash’s son, Hekmat, was wounded in the operation. “Aziz Yuldash had been involved in…
by Abdullah Achekzai in ToloNews, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:51 PMA number of journalists on Thursday condemned the attack on Elyas Dayee, a Radio Azadi reporter, who was killed in a magnetic IED blast in the southern province of Helmand. The journalists said they are concerned about their safety. Hours after his murder, journalists gathered in Lashkargah, the center of Helmand province, and also in Kabul to express their concerns about what they described it…
By Arif Musavi, ToloNews, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:35 PMThe Taliban is trying to take control of revenue generating sectors in Samangan province, local officials said on Thursday. Daud Kalakani, the governor of Samangan, said the Taliban has increased their presence near coal mines in Dara-e-Soof Bala and Dara-e-Soof Paeen areas to take over the mines and collect money for their war machine. He said that the Taliban collects nearly one million Afghanis a day…
report in Khaama Press, 11 Nov 2020 at 12:53 PMAmrullah Saleh, the first vice president, said that according to the National Directorate of Security, “the Taliban have decided to target civil society, it’s members and organizations in Afghanistan’s major cities, who are among the soft targets”. Saleh posted on Wednesday at his Facebook page that by doing so, the Taliban intend to increase the people’s dissatisfaction with the government by expressing public feelings and emotions.…
report in Khaama Press, 11 Nov 2020 at 09:29 AMMohammad Hanif Alias Abdullah, a leader of Al-Qaeda for the Indian sub-continent was killed in a special operation by the National Directorate of Security (NDS). According to the released statement, the militant leader was killed in the Bakwa district of Farah province. Hanif was a Pakistani national and a very close aide to Asim Omer, He was reportedly given shelter and protection by the Taliban. The…
By Abdulhaq Omeri in ToloNews,Nov 11, 2020 at 7:12 PMThe Afghan republic negotiating team has offered four new alternatives to the Taliban to end the delay in the start of direct peace negotiations between the two sides in Doha, sources familiar with the process said. The Taliban has been insisting on the US-Taliban agreement to be the basis for the talks and Hanafi jurisdiction as religious basis for the negotiations. The two key points have…
Report in TOLO News, 11 Nov, 2020 at 8:04 AMAt least four security force members were killed in two separate attacks in Kabul in the last 12 hours, police said. Two police force members were killed and one more was wounded in a magnetic IED blast in Kabul on Wednesday morning, Kabul police said in a statement. The incident happened about 06:30am in Lab-e-Jar area in Kabul’s PD11. No group has claimed responsibility for the…
By Anisa Shaheed in TOLO News, 10 Nov, 2020 at 8:44 PMThe Afghan government on Tuesday accused the Taliban of breaking their promises in the peace process, saying the group in defiance with their commitments have “redeployed” most of their released prisoners to the battlefields. The Afghan government released at least 6,000 Taliban prisoners as part of efforts to start peace negotiations with the group. “Many of them have returned to the battlefields,” a presidential…
report in Dawn, November 11th, 2020KABUL: A bomb-maker who trained Taliban militants before switching allegiance to Al Qaeda has been killed in western Afghanistan, the country’s intelligence agency said on Tuesday. The National Directorate of Security said Mohammad Hanif was a close aide to Asim Omar, who headed Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and was killed in a joint US-Afghan operation in 2019. The agency said Hanif, originally from Karachi, had “close relations”…