(Last Updated On: January 9, 2021)
Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Yousuf Rashid, CEO of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), the Ministry of Interior confirmed Saturday.
Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the Ministry stated that the case is still under investigation, “other suspects are also involved in this incident.”
Meanwhile, First Vice President Amrullah Saleh stated that the culprits are members of a small group of Taliban – the so-called Muslimyar group – which operates in Logar province.
“One of the assassins had made himself a classmate of Yusuf Khan’s son in order to [collect information] and implement their plan,” Saleh added.
(Last Updated On: March 25, 2021)
Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said on Wednesday that the Afghan crisis could be settled through the establishment of an interim coalition government, Anadolu Agency reported.
Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Zamir Kabulov said: “When neither side can prevail, the conflict usually ends with political compromises.”
“The formation of an interim government is not only realistic, as far as we understand with the Americans, Pakistanis, and Chinese partners, there is no alternative to it. We all know perfectly well from the history of other conflicts and civil wars in other countries that when neither side can prevail, usually such a conflict ends with the finding of political compromises,” he said.
(Last Updated On: January 1, 2021)
Bismillah Adil, a journalist and civil society activist in Ghor, was assassinated on Friday in Feroz Koh city, the center of the province, local officials confirmed.
Adil was head of Radio Sada-e-Ghor, local radio in Ghor, and was killed by unknown armed men in Dara-e-Taimur village on the outskirts of Feroz Koh city, officials added.
The deputy governor of Ghor has confirmed the incident to the media.
Reports indicate that Adil was also attacked twice in the past by gunmen but he survived.
So far no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
This comes a week after a journalist in Ghazni, Rahmatullah Nikzad, who was head of the journalists’ union in the province, was killed in an attack by armed men outside his home in Ghazni city.
(Last Updated On: December 31, 2020)
Minister of Public Health Ahmad Jawad Osmani said on Thursday that cases of the new strain of Coronavirus had been detected in Pakistan and India and urged Afghans not to travel to either country for at least four weeks.
He said Afghanistan’s public health ministry was working on ways to detect this variant.
Afghanistan, with an already fragile health care system, has faced enormous challenges in terms of treating and testing patients for COVID-19.
The new strain, detected in a number of other countries including the UK and more recently in the US, has medical experts around the world concerned as it appears to be far more contagious than the initial one.