Category: Afghanistan

Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: Insurgents suffered heavy causalities, 66 militants killed

Kabul – 8 April: In past 24 hours, Afghanistan Defense and Security Forces carried out offensive operations in order to clearance areas and suppress insurgents and protect people throughout the country, as a result of the operations 66 insurgents including 10 Daesh affiliates were killed, 57 wounded and 2 other Daesh detained. The operations supported by artillery and air which carried out in Nangarhar, Ghazni, Khost, Qandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Heart, Farah, Badghis, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul and Helmand provinces.
The operations left 24 Taliban insurgents killed and 10 other Taliban wounded in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan, 16 Taliban were killed and 22 others wounded in Chesht-e-Sharif district of Herat province. Meanwhile 10 Daesh affiliates killed in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar and 8 insurgents killed, one wounded and a depot destroyed in Geraw and Deh Yak districts of Ghazni.
Furthermore, 4 insurgents killed and 7 wounded in Almar district of Faryab, 2 militants killed and 4 wounded in Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul, 2 insurgents killed and 3 others wounded in Bala Bolok district of Farah, 2 insurgents were killed in Arghandab district of Zabul province, and some ammunition and weapons seized.
Meanwhile, in past 24 hours, ANDSF carried out 16 planed and clearance operations, 69 special operations, 88 supply and logistic flights and 3 airstrikes in 11 provinces and imposed heavy causalities over insurgents. 
Afghanistan National Army (ANA) as the nation’s defense force is fully to any sacrifice to assure security and establish peace and protect citizens of Afghanistan and have strongly determination to eliminate terrorist groups.

Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: MOJ press release – Anti-harassment against Women and Children Law and the Wedding Expenses Law

Press Release – MoJ
5 April, 2018
Today Mr. Aman Riazat, Spokesperson for the Mini stry of Justice held a press conference on the recent Anti-harassment against Women and Children Law and the Wedding Expenses Law. He said, “According to the article 54 of the Constitution, Wedding Expenses Law was adopted in 4 chapters and 25 articles. The law is effective and was published in the Official Gazette.” The principal goals of the Wedding Expenses Law, according to him, are to eradicate anti-Islamic traditions, preserve Afghanistan’s cultural values, prevent from exorbitant expenditures, preserve Islamic values, preventing deviations from Islamic values, pave the ground for starting a family, strengthen family cohesion and forestall domestic violence.

According to the provisions of this law, parents and relatives of the bride and groom can celebrate their wedding party in halls and restaurants but neither the bride’s parents, nor her guardians or relatives are allowed to precondition marriage or nikah to money, dowry, or other such things. Moreover, the law prohibits imposition of any kinds of gifts such as Eidi, Ramazani, (Nawrouzi), and so forth.

Spokesperson of Justice Ministry also said that implementation of this law can help us to create opportunities for jobs, access to education and access to health care services.
Mr. Riazat also explained that according to the new Anti-harassment against women and children law, harassment includes physically touch, illegitimate request, verbal and non-verbal abuse that incurs mental or physical discomfort as well as insult to human dignity.
According to the law, a high commission for prevention of harassment against women and children will be established under the leadership of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) to effectively fight against harassment violations and better coordination between government agencies in this regard.

According to this law, in the event of harassment in workplace, the victim or her legal representative can register a complaint to the respective women and children harassment committee. Moreover, victims of harassment themselves or their relatives can file a complaint to the administrative officer, the courts, provincial councils, districts councils or other relevant references. The authorities are required to record their complaint and deal with the case as per provisions in this law.
According to the law, filed complaints shall be reviewed by the Anti-Harassment Committee of the respective government agencies without any delays. Review of complaints registered with other institutions will be conducted by the receiving entity.
According to the recent statistics by the Ministry of Justice, in 1396 over 75 thousand people across the country received awareness on the prevention of harassment, prevention of violence against women and women’s financial rights.
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Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: MoD Press Briefing on Airstrikes in Dashte Arche District of Kunduz Province 03 April, 2018

Today, BG Radmanis, MoD Acting Spokesperson appeared in a news conference to brief the media on MoD airstrikes, targeting the Taliban gathering in Bajawri area of Dashte Arche district in Kunduz province yesterday, 02 Apr, 2018. BG Radmanish said that the Taliban leaders mainly from their north-eastern council had gathered in the mentioned area to perform a military parade and take preparation for attacking the civilian areas and threatening the cities and people of Kunduz. BG Radmanish provided the pictures and videos of this gathering through a presentation that were recorded through GPS from the gathering before being targeted. The recorded pictures and videos which included the timing and GPS taken details showed how these Taliban leaders and their gunmen were getting together in the area.  BG Radmanish told reporters that MB530 aircrafts had targeted the gathering through rocket shelling that killed 18 prominent Taliban leaders and commanders and left 12 others of them injured.

BG Radmanish also said that the MB530 targeted these Taliban through rocket launch first and then the Taliban fired bullets to the nearby civilians and killed these residents. He reiterated that the civilian injured people, who were referred to the hospitals, were shot with the bullets; however the Afghan defense forces did not have any bullet shootings during the operation which show that the Taliban killed the civilians after the MoD air operation in the area. BG Radmanish read the list of the killed Taliban as follows:
1-    Mawlawi Baryal, Member of Peshawar Council
2-    Mawlawi Aminullah, Taliban in-charge of electricity power
3-    Omer, a Tajikistan national and a foreign terrorist
4-    Serajuddin, an Uzbekistan national and a foreign terrorist
5-    Mawlawi Abdulrahman, Commander of 30 fighters
6-    Mawlawi Amdullah, Terrorist Commander
7-     Mawlawi Abdul Ghani, famous for Samangani, Terrorist Commandar
8-    Farid famous for Mohammand, Commander of one of their units
9-    Mawlawi Habibullah, Taliban Mufti
10-    Mawlawi Hamidullah, Commander
11-    Qari Juma Gul
12-    Mawlawi Kabir, famous for Mubariz, Head of Amre ba Mahrof of Kunduz
13-    Mawlawi Naser Mohammad, Director of Education
14-    Mawlawi Zahidullah, member of the military commission of Taliban
15-    Sayedullah, Commander
16-    Qari Ghulam Hazrat Faizani, Head of a group
17-    Mawlawi Islamuddin, a leader of Taliban
18-    Abdulmalik, famous for Mukhlis, Taliban Commander in Baghlan

Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: The use of folic acid and iron tablets has no side effects

Today Ministry of Education, Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs and Ministry of Public Health   announced their coordination with Ministry of Women Affairs in a conference on “anemia and vitamin D deficiency in women” at Gover nment Media and Information Center (GMIC).
Spozhmai Wardak, Deputy Minister of Women’s Affairs: “According to survey conducted the Ministry of Public Health, girls and women in the country face 40% of Anemia and 97% of vitamin D deficiency.”

The Ministry of Public Health has been launching programs to distribute folic acid and iron tablets to schools for preventing anemia amongst girls, and this program has already begun.

Dr Fada Mohammad Paikan, Deputy Minister of Public Health, emphasized that anemia causes the boredom and growth constraints in girls, and the lack of vitamin D decreases due to the weakness of bone and bone marrow. The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, distributed the tablets Folic acid and iron for students from fifth up to twelve grades of school over the country.

He also added that through the 2,800 health centers of the Ministry of Health throughout the country, sunshine and dietary regimens for vitamin (D) are available to girls.

The Ministry of Health also said that folic acid tablets, as well as advice on dietary intake of vitamin D (D) from sunshine and dietary foods for girls between the ages of 11 and 19 who are not students, are also part of the ministry’s plans.

Mawlavi Fazalrahman Seraj General Director at Mosques also announced the vitamin (D), in recognition of Islam’s emphasis on health, to prepare the ministry to raise awareness of the people through mosques people to receive anemia pills.

Dr Fada Mohammad Paikan also said that: “With regard to the harms and benefits of these tablets, a series of rumors was issued by the regional intelligence agencies, which prohibits people from using these tablets, we ask people to get the information they need before they reach any conclusion and after that stop using these tablets.”                                                                                                       
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Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: Press Release – ATRA, 17 March, 2018

Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: People’s participation in national processes and programs strengthens the mutual nation-state trust

Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: Joint Press Release – MCIT and MoT, 7 March-2018

Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: Press Release of Ministry of Urban Development and Housing – 5 March, 2018

Ministry of Urban Development and Housing have spent 85.58% of its budget development.
Today Ms. Nilofar Langar, Spokesperson of Ministry of Urban Development and Housing said “This amount has been used for the initiation of 89 various construction projects for other ministries, other construction projects, consultation and procurement of materials. There was a total of 104 MoUs for procurement” at GMIC.

In this year, the construction of more than 31 thousand residential units is either completed, or they are under construction, or there are commitments for their constructions. “The design of China’s residential project, completion of planning for Qatar, Kamakuddin Behzad and Qasim Abad Nangarhar projects, and preparation of Lala project to be launched and distributed to the employees for the judicial sector are among our significant achievements,” Ms. Nilofar added.
Moreover, in Financial Year (FY) 1396 Ministry of Urban Development and Housing received a USD 20 million city development project from the World Bank for strategic planning of nine major cities. Furthermore, two new master plans were developed, six previous master plans were revised and 20 detailed plans were developed by expert urban engineers.

She emphasized that during FY 1396, they have completed 45 projects of constructing administrative buildings, residential blocks, buildings for provincial councils, conference halls, guest houses and administrative buildings for municipality directorates in the provinces. She also added that the design and planning of reconstruction of 14 mosques in 10 provinces have been completed.
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Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Report:

Headline: Press Release – Afghan Youth Civil Association – 4 March, 2018