US Afghan Envoy Khalilzad Defends Biden Withdrawal Plan
In a hearing called by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week, Khalilzad reiterated the rationale for the administration’s decision to exit Afghanistan.
April 29, 2021
Zalmay Khalilzad, special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2021, during a hearing on the Biden administration’s Afghanistan policy and plans to withdraw troops after two decades of war.
Credit: T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times via AP, Pool
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“To be clear, there was no option to continue the status quo,” U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said in prepared testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
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Middle EastThree female polio vaccination health workers shot dead in eastern Afghanistan
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Afghan men carry the coffin of one of the three female polio vaccination health workers who were shot and killed by unknown gunmen at two separate locations, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, March 30, 2021.REUTERS/Parwiz
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Gunmen killed three female polio vaccination workers in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, officials said, adding that a blast had also rocked the provincial health department headquarters but left no casualties.
Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, head of the immunisation programme at Afghanistan s Health Ministry, told Reuters the explosion took place at the entrance to the health department for the province of Nangarhar late on Tuesday morning.
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JALALABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three female polio vaccination workers in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, officials said, adding that a blast had also rocked the provincial health department headquarters but left no casualties.
Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, head of the immunisation programme at Afghanistan’s Health Ministry, told Reuters the explosion took place at the entrance to the health department for the province of Nangarhar late on Tuesday morning.
Around the same time unknown gunmen shot vaccination workers at two separate locations in Jalalabad, killing two volunteers and one supervisor in the polio immunisation programme, all of them women, he said.
Kabul s Poorest Killed, Injured in Blast While Working on Street
An 8-year-old child was killed on Sunday in a blast in Kabul. He was collecting money from motorists after smoking pecan for them as a good omen to ward off evil and ill fortune.
Surab, 8, worked on Kabul streets with two brothers every day. Sometimes they sold bubble gum.
His mother said she sent her son from Parwan to Kabul to work to win bread for their family as they are faced with a poor economic condition.
One shopkeeper, Abdul Sami, said Suhrab borrowed 10 Afs from him hours before his death on that day.