Tribal elders in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday set the government a five-day deadline to recover missing TV journalist or they would shut down gates of government offices by erecting protest tents in their front. The Enikas TV…
Tribal eleders from the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday asked the government to bring night raids by 02 Special Forces Unit to a halt. They claimed around 160 civilians, including women and children, have been…
Some clerics and tribal elders in southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday urged the warring parties to renew their ceasefire and enter peace negotiations. The religious scholars and elders expressed these views at a gathering the about peace process…
The governor of southern Ghazni province on Sunday asked tribal elders to enter talks with the Taliban on ending the conflict. Waheedullah Kalimzai told a gathering bringing together tribal elders, religious scholars, government officials and common people…
KABUL figures, local influential and provincial council members from various provinces converged on capital Kabul on Tuesday to hold a two-day consultative meeting on peace. Mohammad Karim Khalili, the High Peace Council (HPC) chief, addressed the day-one of the conference…
President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said his government wanted to advance the national reconciliation process in consultations with tribal elders and influential figures. Speaking to tribal elders and officials from southern Zabul province, the president said peace was…
Tribal elders, including those coming from across the border in Pakistan. The elders numbering around 300 asked the international community to help them get rid of terrorism in tribal areas. The gathering in Jalalabad featured elders of tribes…
Hundreds of tribal elders held a huge gathering in the border town of Torkham in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, calling on Pakistan. Tribal elders across the border in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province had been invited to…
Tribal elders in the Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province have imposed a five million afghanis fine on individuals sympathetic to the Islamic State (IS), an official said on Wednesday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Religious scholars and tribal elders on Wednesday voiced their support for the Afghan security forces in opium-rich southern Helmand province, calling on the insurgents to reconcile. Attending a gathering in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, the clerics and elders…
Dozens of tribal elders on Thursday attended a gathering announcing their support for the Afghan security forces, as elsewhere 100 policemen completed training in southern Zabul province, officials said. The elders from Shegal and Shultan districts of Kunar…
Local officials on Thursday said Taliban militants wanted to stone an innocent woman to death on adultery charge in northwestern Jawzjan province, but elders prevented their move. Governor Maulvi Lotfullah Azizi told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban commander Qari…
Elders from eastern provinces on Sunday warned against not mentioning “Afghan” and “Islam” in the computerised national identity (ID) cards. More than 100 elders and their supporters coming all the way from from Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan…
