(Last Updated On: March 28, 2021)
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said in a report on Sunday 4.4 million people in Afghanistan live with a disability and that the number people with disabilities has increased by 11.2 percent during the past 14 years.
The AIHRC data shows that 13.9 percent of the total population of Afghanistan (4,475,800) have been identified as people with disabilities.
“In 1384 (2005), this figure reached 2.7 percent of the total population of the country; thus, in 14 years, the number of people with disabilities has increased by 11.2 percent,” the report said.
The organization has recorded physical, mental, biological, and metabolic disabilities among the Afghan people.
(Last Updated On: March 14, 2021)
As US President Joe Biden’s administration wrestles with whether to extend troop presence in Afghanistan or withdraw by May 1 as per the deal with the Taliban, officials have said there are in fact more American troops on the ground than the reported 2,500.
According to the New York Times, officials, both American and Afghan, have said the number is actually around 3,500. That’s 1,000 more than Washington has disclosed.
According to the Times, the “cloudy accounting” around troops numbers results from some Special Forces units having been put “off the books”.
According to a senior US official, the presence of some temporary and transitioning units also accounted for the additional troops.
(Last Updated On: March 14, 2021)
The speaker of the Afghan Lower House of Parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani said Sunday that the Pakistani National Assembly speaker Asad Qaisar will visit Kabul in the near future.
Rahmani, however, did not mention the exact date of Qaisar’s visit to Kabul.
Rahmani wrote on his Facebook page that he had a meeting with Pakistan’s Ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmad Khan and discussed the Pakistani paramilitary officials’ trip to Kabul.
They also discussed the current political situation in the region, regional consensus, Moscow and Turkey’s peace summits, and the Afghan peace process, Rahmani’s media office said.
(Last Updated On: March 28, 2021)
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said in a report on Sunday 4.4 million people in Afghanistan live with a disability and that the number people with disabilities has increased by 11.2 percent during the past 14 years.
The AIHRC data shows that 13.9 percent of the total population of Afghanistan (4,475,800) have been identified as people with disabilities.
“In 1384 (2005), this figure reached 2.7 percent of the total population of the country; thus, in 14 years, the number of people with disabilities has increased by 11.2 percent,” the report said.
The organization has recorded physical, mental, biological, and metabolic disabilities among the Afghan people.
How Special Ops Became the Solution to Everything
They’ve become a major military player and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.
Within the span of a few decades, the United States has utterly transformed its military, or at least the military that is actively fighting. This has taken place with little fanfare and little public scrutiny. But without any conscious plan, I have seen some of the evolution firsthand. One of my early books,
Black Hawk Down, was about a disastrous U.S. Special Ops mission in Somalia. Another,
Guests of the Ayatollah, about the Iran hostage crisis, detailed an abortive but pivotal Special Ops rescue mission. U.S. Special Operators were involved in the successful hunt for the drug lord Pablo Escobar, the subject of