Rahmatullah Nabil, an Afghan presidential candidate who stands in the 4th position securing 1.86% votes, following the announcement of the final election results by the IEC, said today was the day for the death of democracy in Afghanistan.
The National Unity Government assured of not forfeiting the past achievements, including the free media in peace talks with the Taliban group—a clear message to the Taliban as the US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad just resumed peace talks with Taliban to find a negotiation settlement to the conflict.
Afghan first VP General Abdul Rashid Dostum met on Wednesday with US state department’s special representative for Afghan peace process Zalmay Khalilzad in Ankara, capital of Turkey.
Three months after 9/11, two months after U.S. President George W. Bush ordered bombs to begin raining on Kabul, the day The Village Voice published one of my war reports from the front in Afghanistan: “We’ve lost this war,” I wrote. To drive my point home, the headline was: “How We Lost Afghanistan.”
The Afghan Samoun Association (ASA) on Monday warned politicians against switching to a parliamentary form of government from the presidential system under the current circumstances.