President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the release of a number of Pakistani prisoners from Afghanistan jails as a goodwill gesture. A copy of the decree released on November 18 was obtained by Pajhwok Afghan News. The decree states…
KABUL and skill level has begun in the Pul-i-Charkhi jail for the first time, a statement said on Sunday. The purpose of the process is to provide educational, vocational training and other facilities to prisoners to help them rehabilitate, the…
KABUL have freed 37 more Afghan security personnel. Suhail Shaheen, Taliban’s political spokesman, tweeted the insurgent group freed the government prisoners in Kunduz and Takhar provinces on Sunday. He added 20 prisoners were released in Takhar while 17 others were…
KABUL have released 21 more security personnel in northeastern Takhar province, the movement’s political spokesman said on Monday. Suhail Shaheen tweeted that as part of the prisoner release process under the US-Taliban agreement, the insurgent group had freed 21 prisoners…
KABUL have announced releasing another 38 government prisoners. Taliban’s political office spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted on Saturday the government forces were freed in Farah and Nimroz provinces. He wrote the prisoners were given cash and clothes before being sent to…
KABUL (HIA), an official said. Ziaul Haq Amarkehel, head of a joint HIA and Government Commission said 164 HIA prisoners were released. The prisoners were freed from Pul-i-Charkhi and Bagram prisoners in line with Afghan government and HIA peace…
KABUL’s announcement of ceasefire and said the process of Taliban prisoners release will be resumed. The president expressed the views after offering the Eid-ul-Fitr prayer. He was accompanied by National Reconciliation Council Head Abdullah and other government officials. He…
KABUL on late Tuesday announced the release of another 20 prisoners in southern Kandahar province. Taliban’s Qatar Office Spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said 20 government prisoners were released on Tuesday in Kandahar province. He added the Taliban offered fares to every…
Scores of prisoners have been released in Baghlan and Zabul province in line with the government’s efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Fifty-four detainees, held on different charges, were set free after consideration of their ages…
KABUL victory day against former Soviet Union with the aim to prevent coronavirus spread in the country’s jails. Rashid Totakhel, director of prisons management of the country, told a press conference that at least 12,399 prisoners would be released based…
Around 10,000 prisoners will be freed from jails in compliance with Presidential decree to prevent the spread of coronavirus, officials said on Thursday. Ahmad Rashid Totakhel, general director of detention centres, in a joint press conference with…
Prisoners held at the Pul-i-Charkhi prison are complaining against lack of medicines, cash and not allowing their relatives to meet them besides fearing corona virus. The Prisoners Council of this prison dispatched a formal letter to Pajhwok…
A presidential decree issued on Tuesday directed the authorities to release female prisoners and take measures for protection of male prisoners above 60 years of age or those suffering from incurable diseases from coronavirus. The first article of…
Sentenced to death row by a primary court, Amir Ali Jamshid has spent 18 years in the central jail of northern Car-i-Pul province with an uncertain future. Authorities, however, say Ali had been left with no re-appeal…
KABUL. Kevin King, a 60-year-old American, and Timothy John Weeks, a 48-year-old Australian, professors of the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), were kidnapped from Kabul by Taliban in August 2016. Two well-known people who are close to the Taliban in…
KABUL militants have released 76 war prisoners from their custody on the account of Eidul Adha and want to release more, the group’s prisoner commission said on Sunday. The Taliban prisoner commission in a statement said the prisoners were freed…
KABUL, hoping the freed inmates would serve as peace ambassadors and would not join the war again. A statement from the Presidential Palace received by Pajhwok Afghan News quoted the president as expressing these views during his meeting with Ulema…
On the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, 887, including some by the Attorney General Office (AGO), prisoners would be freed from the different jails of the country in compliance to presidential decree. The president made the announcement on Monday evening…
KABUL’s jails say they endured torture during their captivity. Fifty-three security personnel were freed from Taliban prisons recently during Afghan commando forces operations backed by foreign forces in central Uruzgan province. Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid, while addressing a gathering in…
KABUL, an official said Wednesday. Aziz Ahmad Sarbaz, head of the delegation for receiving Afghan prisoners from Iran, told a press conference in Kabul that around 4,000 to 5,000 Afghans were imprisoned in Iran. He said 650 of the Afghan…
President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday ordered a second review of the cases of Pul-i-Charkhi prisoners and said a team under Ustad Danish was working on the cases of death row inmates. The president said this after laying the…
Hundreds of Afghan detainees in Iran and Tajikistan would be transferred to the country soon, the Attorney General Office (AGO) said on Thursday. Aziz Ahmad Sarbaz, a senior AGO officer, told Pajhwok Afghan News around 4,000 Afghans had…
Sixty-three prisoners, including four women, were released from a prison in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, an official said. The provincial court of appeals chief, Mohammad Arif Mubashir, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the former inmates were…
Seventy-four prisoners, including two women, were released from the central jail in eastern Nangarhar province in compliance with a presidential decree issued on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi. Another 30 inmates got their jail terms reduced under…
