Residents of nine districts in southern Paktika province on Sunday held a peaceful rally, asking the Taliban to accept their request for renewing ceasefire and paving the ground for peace negotiations. Tribal elders, religious scholars, youth and common…
Thousands of German citizens have staged rallies in different cities against obligatory repatriation of failed Afghan refugees, a media report said on Sunday. In the western city of Dusseldorf, 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets. In Hamburg, police…
Members of the Junbish-i-Roshanai or Enlightenment Movement on Monday postponed a planned protest rally which was scheduled to be staged tomorrow (Tuesday) amid ongoing talks with the government. Daud Naji, one of the rally organizers, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Hundreds of people on Tuesday rallied in support of the Afghan security forces and against Pakistan in southeastern Paktia province the wake of recent clashes at Torkham border. Last week, Afghan and Pakistani security forces resorted to fire…
KABUL. The rally comes weeks after officials in northeastern Kunduz province said that militants had kidnapped 220 passengers on the Kunduz-Takhar highway in two separate incidents last month. Eighteen of the passengers were killed while 21 others are still in…
Hundreds of people from southern Paktia province staged a rally, asking President Ashraf Ghani not to change the route of a multinational power project. The Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan (TUTAP) power project will import 500kv of electricity from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and…
A large number of residents rallied in southern Ghazni City on Wednesday in support of the new mayor, closing the busy Kandahar-Kabul highway. Nasir Ahmad Lalizai was appointed as Ghazni mayor some two weeks back, but his…
Hundreds of people on Monday rallied in northern Baghlan province, demanding an end to ongoing clashes between Afghan forces and militants in Dand-i-Ghori and Dand-i-Shahabuddin areas. The clashes in Dand-i-Ghori area of Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, have been…
Local officials on Tuesday promised investigating a recent rally in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, where participants carried the flags of a militant outfits. Some days ago, a number of Nangarhar University students, carrying the flags…
Hundreds of residents in northern Faryab province on Sunday rallied in support of Afghan security forces, announcing their preparedness to deal with possible insurgent attacks on the province. Some of them, carrying weapons, were chanting slogans against Pakistan…
Hundreds of residents on Friday rallied in southwestern Nimroz province, urging the unity government to mention the word “Afghan” in electronic ID cards. The protesters numbered around 300 and were chanting slogans “We are Afghans”. Mohammad Sediq Chekhansori,…
Hundreds of residents on Wednesday rallied in southeastern Paktia province demanding the word “Afghan” to be mentioned in the biometric national identity cards. A test distribution drive of the electronic ID cards was expected on August 19, but…
