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Government of Afghanistan

Type: Organization

Name: Government of Afghanistan

First reported 11 mins ago - Updated 11 mins ago - 1 reports

NATO

Afghan forces take security lead

Afghan forces have formally taken over security for the whole of the country from Nato-led troops, completing a process begun in 2011.President Hamid Karzai announced the move at a ceremony during which Nato forces handed over control for the last 95 ... [Published BBC - 11 mins ago]

Entities: International Security Assistance Force, Security, NATO, Taliban, Government of Afghanistan

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 2 reports

Taliban

Taliban to open Doha office today: report

DOHA - A Taliban office, to act as a bridge between militants and the Afghan government in facilitating talks between the two, will open today (Tuesday) in Doha.A foreign television channel reported the news on Monday citing anonymous sources and giving ... [Published Pakistan Today - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Taliban, Doha (Qatar), Hamid Karzai, Qatar

First reported 26 mins ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 1 reports

International Security Assistance Force

Afghans to take lead in security

Afghan forces are formally taking over security for the whole of the country from Nato-led troops, completing a process begun in 2011.President Hamid Karzai is attending a ceremony in which the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) hands over ... [Published BBC - 26 mins ago]

Entities: International Security Assistance Force, Security, NATO

First reported 42 mins ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 1 reports

3 killed in suicide bombing in Kabul

KABUL, June 18 (Xinhua) -- At least three civilians were killed and many others wounded Tuesday morning when a suicide bombing hit west of Afghan capital Kabul, witnesses said."A suicide bomber targeted the convoy of Hajji Mohammad Muaqiq, a member of ... [Published People.com.cn - 42 mins ago]

Entities: Kabul, Suicide Bomb, Taliban, NATO, Security

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Kabul University

Eyeball licking craze causing conjunctivitis in Japan

Taliban leader shows resilience for peace talksKABUL: A top Taliban leader, who served as finance minister in Mullah Omar's regime, Mutasim Agha Jan, said that the insurgent group is ready to negotiate a peace deal with the Afghan government..... READ ... [Published Afghanistan Times - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Kabul, Japan, Kabul University

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Hamid Karzai

Pakistan Using Religious Extremism to Destabilise Afghanistan: Karzai

President Hamid Karzai said that the military and intelligence agency of Pakistan are adopting extremist methods based on religion to destabilise Afghanistan.In an interview to Pakistani private TV channel Geo, President Karzai said, "I have no complaints ... [Published Afghan Voice Agency - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

United States Government

Corker blocks Afghan spending bill over millions in payments to Karzai

Susan CrabtreeSen. Bob Corker, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is demanding to know why the U.S. government allegedly has made tens of millions of dollars in cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his relatives, despite ... [Published Washington Examiner - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Bob Corker, Hamid Karzai, United States Government, Government of Afghanistan

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Mutasim Speaks Again

Mutasim Agha Jan, Taliban government’s finance minister and a prominent member of the so-called Quetta Shura has once again spoken to the media - this time to an Afghan local news channel. Speaking from Anakara, Mutasim has said that Taliban are prepared ... [Published Daily Outlook - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Taliban, Government of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Afghan progress 'not guaranteed'

The commander of international forces in Afghanistan says progress in the country isn't guaranteed.General Joseph Dunford will be the last commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force.Speaking to the BBC in his first interview since taking ... [Published BFBS Gibraltar - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, Joseph Dunford, Government of Afghanistan

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Int’l community too tacit on Pak’s support for Taliban:

KABUL: President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman criticized the international community, particularly the United States, for their failure to eliminate sanctuaries of terrorists in Pakistan and address the issue of Islamabad’s support for the Taliban and other ... [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Taliban, Islamabad, Pakistan

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Afghan-US Security Agreement Talks to Begin in Few Days: MoFA

KABUL - Officials of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Sunday said that the fourth phase of talks about the Afghan-US Security Agreement will begin within few days in Kabul.Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry ... [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Afghanistan, Security, Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, jirga

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 2 reports

Afghanistan Asks Pakistan to Explain Kandahar Attack

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Afghan government asked Pakistan to explain why its forces carried out an artillery and mortar attack on an Afghan border post in Southern Kandahar province.The attack was carried out from Loy Band area on the Pakistani side of the Durand ... [Published Fars News Agency - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Government of Afghanistan, Kandahar, Pakistan, Afghanistan

Quotes

...least three civilians were killed and many others wounded Tuesday morning when a suicide bombing hit west of Afghan capital Kabul, witnesses said. "A suicide bomber targeted the convoy of Hajji Mohammad Muaqiq, a member of lower house of Afghan parliament but Muaqiq escaped the attack" a witness told Xinhua

3 killed in suicide bombing in Kabul [Published People.com.cn - 42 mins ago]

"It will not be easy, but if anyone can effectively navigate the space between agencies and branches of government, it's Cliff" said Kerry

Obama Names Envoy to Close Guantanamo [Published NewsMax.com - 13 hours ago]

He said: "I think eventually this war has to be resolved by political means and the Afghan people will have to come to some accommodation with all Afghan people that want to return back here and if peace and stability is to be brought to Afghanistan then some form of political reconciliation is critical."

Afghan progress 'not guaranteed' [Published BFBS Gibraltar - 15 hours ago]

"Despite all these differences the people of Afghanistan want friendly relations with Pakistan. A relation based on mutual respect, observing national sovereignty of each other and safeguarding rights of the two nations, and not a relation of servant and boss" the statement said

Pakistan Using Religious Extremism to Destabilise Afghanistan: Karzai [Published Afghan Voice Agency - 17 hours ago]

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Afghan forces take security lead [Published BBC - 11 mins ago]
Afghans to take lead in security [Published BBC - 26 mins ago]
3 killed in suicide bombing in Kabul [Published People.com.cn - 42 mins ago]
Karzai criticises drone strikes... [Published Qatar Peninsula - 1 hour ago]
Eyeball licking craze causing conjunctivitis in... [Published Afghanistan Times - 3 hours ago]
Karzai’s acerbic tone [Published The Nation Pakistan - 3 hours ago]
Mutasim Speaks Again [Published Daily Outlook - 6 hours ago]
Taliban opening Doha office today [Published Qatar Peninsula - 6 hours ago]
Republican Senator Demands Answers On Obama’s S... [Published Business Insider Australia - 9 hours ago]
Corker blocks Afghan spending bill over million... [Published Washington Examiner - 10 hours ago]
Taliban to open Doha office today: report [Published Pakistan Today - 10 hours ago]
Taliban to open Doha office Tuesday - Jazeera TV [Published Gulf News - 13 hours ago]
Taliban to Open Doha Office Tuesday, Jazeera TV... [Published Naharnet - 13 hours ago]
Obama Names Envoy to Close Guantanamo [Published NewsMax.com - 13 hours ago]
‌By: Bruce G. Richardson / From the Bookshelf [Published Dawat Independent Media Center - 13 hours ago]
Afghan progress 'not guaranteed' [Published BFBS Gibraltar - 15 hours ago]
Pakistan Using Religious Extremism to Destabili... [Published Afghan Voice Agency - 17 hours ago]
Congress Checks and Balances on Afghanistan; Wi... [Published The Nation - 18 hours ago]
Afghan Provincial Police Chief Survives Suicide... [Published Radio Free Europe - 22 hours ago]
“New Diplomatic Envoy Chosen for Guantanamo” [Published Balloon Juice - 23 hours ago]
Asylum seekers 'on the brink' [Published The Dandenong Journal - Jun 17 2013]
Int’l community too tacit on Pak’s support for ... [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 17 2013]
DABS extends electricity to Guldarah district [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 17 2013]
Karzai appoints new rights commissioners [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 17 2013]
Afghan-US Security Agreement Talks to Begin in ... [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 16 2013]
June 17, 2013 by Dilawar Sherzai Poppy Cultivat... [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 16 2013]
Taliban Leader Soften Stance in Peace Talks [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 16 2013]
Afghan Forces, Taking Lead, Hold Steady in Viol... [Published Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jun 16 2013]
Held up: Bronze-domed gift to Afghanistan [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Jun 16 2013]
Afghans poised to take security lead from US, NATO [Published Greenfield Daily Reporter - Jun 16 2013]

Blogs

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“New Diplomatic Envoy Chosen for Guantanamo” [Published Balloon Juice - 23 hours ago] Charlie Savage, at the NYTimes: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday is expected to name Cliff Sloan, a Washington lawyer and confidant of Secretary of State John Kerry, as the new diplomatic envoy for the shutdown of the military prison ...
Uncle Sam’s Koran: Islam on Afghan TV and Radio [Published Think Progress - Jun 14 2013] (Credit: USA Today) KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — In the 1980s the United States possessed a distinct ideological advantage over the Soviets in the battle for Afghanistan. Whereas the Russians and their Marxist Afghan allies were publicly antagonistic towards ...
Foreign support of the insurgency in Kandahar: ... [Published The Long War Journal (Site-Wide) - Jun 14 2013] Last week, Brigadier General Abdul Razzaq, the well-known Achekzai warlord and Provincial Police Chief for Afghanistan's Kandahar province, made some bold claims about Iranian involvement in Afghanistan. From Pajhwok Afghan News : The police chief ...
'Beheading Boys' [Published The Weekly Standard Blog - Jun 11 2013] The New York Post editorializes: Edward Snowden is likely too preoccupied with his own fate to pay much attention to other news.So we’re not sure the man who’s boasted to the world of leaking classified information about two National Security Agency anti-terrorist ...
Taliban behead two boys in southern Afghanistan [Published Jihad Watch - Jun 10 2013] "So when you meet those who disbelieve, strike their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4 "Disbelieve," in this case, meaning "cooperate with the Infidel-allied Karzai government." "Taliban beheads two boys in southern Afghanistan," from Reuters , June 10 (thanks ...

Audio/Video

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Unemployment threatens Afghanistan stability [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 14 2013]
US, Afghanistan try to smooth over tensions [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 26 2013]
NATO says Afghan government committed, despite ... [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Mar 15 2013]
Afghans mull U.S. withdrawal [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Feb 13 2013]
Afghanistan struggles to build local businesses [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Feb 08 2013]

Press Releases

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IOM Director General shows solidarity in Kabul [Published IOM Press Briefing Notes - Jun 04 2013]
IST Research’s Data Collection Environment to M... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 23 2013]