KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked protesters Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country’s flag, killing at least one person and fueling fears about how the insurgents would govern this fractious nation. While the Taliban have insisted they will respect human rights unlike during […]
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Taliban take control of Kabul and presidential palace, Ashraf Ghani flees
Taliban forces are assuming control of the Afghan capital Kabul and have taken control of the presidential palace, after the country’s president Ashraf Ghani fled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. One of the Taliban’s units shared pictures of the Palace interior – seemingly intact, but empty and abandoned by Afghan officials – on an official Telegram account. […]
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees to Tajikistan
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Vice-President Amrullah Saleh flee to neighboring Tajikistan as the Taliban surround the capital Kabul, Afghan local media report. Local news reports suggest that the duo handed over their powers to a transitional council before abdicating their offices. Before reports of his resignation and fleeing emerged, U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan […]
Ashraf Ghani and the Fate of Afghanistan
On August 11, 2021, Pakistan’s Prime Minster Imran Khan said, “I tried to persuade the Taliban… three to four months back when they came here…The condition is that as long as [Afghanistan’s President] Ashraf Ghani is there, we [Taliban] are not going to talk to the Afghan government.” Three days later, news has arrived that […]
Book City to review Cyrus Ghani’s “Shakespeare, Persia, and the East”
TEHRAN – A Persian translation of Cyrus Ghani’s book “Shakespeare, Persia, and the East” will be reviewed in an online session by the Book City Institute in Tehran. The book translated into Persian by Masud Farahmandfar has recently been published by the Morvarid publishing house in Tehran. Farahmandfar and the literati Omid Tabibzadeh and Mostafa […]
President Ashraf Ghani praised India’s contribution to Afghanistan
nsnbc : Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has praised India’s contribution to Afghanistan, emphasizing that the government in Delhi is a good partner and […]
Afghan President Ghani signed decree to release Hezb-e-Islami prisoners
nsnbc : Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has signed a decree for the release of the first batch of Hezb-e-Islam prisoners. The first batch of […]
Iranian ‘sanctions-bypassing’ billionaire Zanjani sentenced to death for graft
“The court of first instance… sentenced the three defendants to death,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei announced during a weekly news conference, as quoted by Reuters. Believe it or not, pluralistic democracy thriving in Iran The defendants were sentenced to death for “spreading corruption on earth” – a term used in the Iranian Penal Code […]