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Sputnik International
February 24, 2018
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A former Afghan senator Rafeullah Gull Afghan was assassinated along with two bodyguards in the country's capital Kabul, TOLO broadcaster reported Sunday. The assassination took place on Saturday night, when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his vehicle, local media reportedÃâà...
The Express Tribune
December 7, 2017
“It's hardly possible for the Taliban hardliners to say yes to the government's offers of peace,” Mohammad Faisal Sami, an Afghan senator, said by phone. But “this may help bring some other Taliban deserters or factions, which aren't deemed as a major threat, to the negotiation table.” The Taliban's stanceÃâà...
In These Times
September 19, 2017
Even by Afghan standards, the easternmost part of Uruzgan province is remote, mountainous and poor. It sits 200 miles southwest of Kabul along a highway pockmarked with IEDs and plagued by roving bandits. The road is often impassable, choked by snow in winter and fighting in summer. Most of the tens of thousands ofÃâà...
TOLOnews
September 10, 2017
Although the presidential palace has refrained from commenting, a number of Afghan senators in the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) have said that government must decide on the fate of Dostum. “There is no restriction in the way of the return of his excellency first vice president, but now it isÃâà...
Long War Journal
June 4, 2017
The NDS claimed it detained a would-be suicide bomber who was supposed to be blowing himself up along with three others at yesterday's funeral for the son of an Afghan senator who was killed after security forces opened fire during a protest in Kabul a day earlier. Twenty people were killed and 89 moreÃâà...
TOLOnews
June 3, 2017
Not only are there hundreds of demonstrators still gathered in the area but family and friends of the victims of Saturday's deadly bombing at the burial service of Salem Ezadyar, the son of an Afghan senator, have also converged on the hospital. In this attack, three suicide bombers detonated explosivesÃâà...
NBCNews.com
June 3, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least six people have been killed and 87 injured following three explosions at a funeral in Kabul on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior said. Mourners were paying their respects to Salim Ayzadyar, the son of an Afghan senator, when three suicide bombers detonated explosives,Ãâà...
Khaama Press
September 19, 2013
Afghan senator join Taliban group According to reports, a former Afghan senator has joined Taliban group in northern Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan and has announced his support to Taliban group. Qazi Abdulhai reportedly joined Taliban group along with a number of his supporters. He was also aÃâà...
Khaama Press
March 24, 2012
According to local authorities in southern Uruzgan province, a former Afghan senator was killed along with a tribal elder following a roadside improvised explosive device explosion in this province. The officials further added, the incident took place around 1 pm local time on Saturday after the vehicle of aÃâà...
