Photo Capt. Niloofar Rahmani on Friday near the Arkansas River after graduating from her flight training program at Little Rock Air Force Base. Credit Andrea Morales for The New York Times KABUL Afghanistan Contending that her life isn t at risk at all military officials in Afghanistan have asked that the United States reject the asylum case of Capt. Niloofar Rahmani the first female fixed-wing pilot in the Afghan Air Force.On Thursday Captain Rahmani revealed that she had applied for asylum this summer saying she felt unsafe in Afghanistan where she and her family have received death threats. For the last 15 months she has been training at air bases in Arkansas Florida and Texas.Captain Rahmani said that her Afghan male colleagues in the air force treated her with contempt and that she felt at risk. Things are not changing for the better in Afghanistan Captain Rahmani said in an interview on Friday. Things are getting worse and worse. Gen. Mohammad Radmanish a Defense Ministry spokesman disputed her claims of being in danger. I am sure she lied by saying she was threatened just to win the asylum case General Radmanish said on Sunday. It is baseless that she
https://www.razoo.com/us/user/0ni4xe claimed her life was at risk while serving in the Afghan Air Force. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Since Captain Rahmani s claim is new we expect her to change her mind and return to her own country and continue serving as a pilot the general said. We request from our American friends and government to reject her asylum case and send her back because knowing the truth Captain Rahmani s life isn t at risk at all. The American government has celebrated Captain Rahmani as an example of its success in advancing women s rights in Afghanistan. In 2015 the State Department honored her with its annual Women of Courage award and Michelle Obama praised her courage.In Afghanistan few supported her decision and there were worries that her asylum request would affect the process of training Afghan pilots outside the country. Captain Rahmani s claim that she was harassed in the workplace is not true because in the air force all the pilots and staff are well-educated and highly trained people said Col. Ayan Khan a helicopter pilot in the Afghan Air Force. How can they harass their female colleague who serves along them? A version of this article appears in print on
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Islamabad: Pakistan China and Russia have discussed Afghanistan s deteriorating security situation and the increased activities of extremist groups like the ISIS in the war-torn country at a high-level meeting in Moscow that did not include any Afghan representatives. Pakistan s foreign ministry said in a joint press release said that the three countries expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and the increased activities of extremist groups including local affiliates of the Islamic State. It said the participants agreed to continue their efforts towards further facilitating the Afghan-led Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan according to the known principles of reintegration of the armed opposition into peaceful life. The third round of the trilateral consultations on regional issues of Special Representatives on Afghanistan and senior officials of the three countries was held in Moscow. Russia and China as the UN Security Council permanent members confirmed their flexible approach to delisting Afghan individuals from the UN sanctions lists as their contribution to the efforts aimed at launching peaceful dialogue between Kabul and the Taliban. The parties agreed to proceed with consultations in an expanded format and would welcome the participation of Afghanistan it said. The participants also met with Russian deputy foreign minister Igor Morgulov. PTISajjad HussainTopics: Afghanistan SecurityMoscow ConferenceSpecial Representatives on AfghanistanChinaPakistan
MOSCOW: Russia China and Pakistan agreed to include Afghanistan and some other countries to expand their tripartite consultations on the Afghan conflict after Kabul objected to its absence from the regional discussions. The parties agreed to proceed with consultations in an expanded format and would welcome the participation of Afghanistan a joint statement issued after a meeting of the senior officials of the three countries said here. It was the third round of talks between the three countries on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan particularly the rise of the Islamic State. The previous two rounds of the tripartite meetings were not publicly disclosed. The third meeting was announced by the participating states in an indication of their growing confidence in their cooperation driven by the fear of IS gaining a foothold in Afghanistan. The announcement of the talks however annoyed Kabul which questioned the effectiveness of a process on Afghanistan without its representation. A spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry Ahmad Shekib Mostaghni while speaking to media in Kabul on Tuesday cautioned that no initiative relating to Afghanistan could succeed without its involvement. Even if such talks are organised with goodwill (they) cannot yield any substantial results because no one from the Afghan side is there he said in diplomatically couched criticism of the trilateral meeting. Meanwhile Russia is also supporting Iran s entry into the relatively new process. Tehran has been Moscow s ally in the fight against IS in Syria. In a separate troika formed last week Russia Iran and Turkey reaffirmed their determination to jointly fight the IS .
A woman has been beheaded for visiting a city without her husband officials in Afghanistan have said.
https://everplaces.com/servicesnots The 30-year-old was decapitated and stabbed to death on Monday evening in Lati in the Sar-e-Pul province of northern Afghanistan. The Middle East Press claims a government spokesman told them Taliban militants killed her for the infidelity act of going shopping without a male guardian. Read more Muslim woman could barely breathe after hijab ripped off in attack The Taliban which occupies Lati imposes fierce policies of discrimination against women which includes banning them speaking loudly in public and appearing in media. Punishments have included public lashings and executions in football stadiums. National broadcaster Tolo News reports that the provincial governor spokesman Zabiullah Amani said the woman s husband is in Iran and that they do not have children. 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No one has been arrested and the Taliban have reportedly rejected any involvement. The Sunni fundamentalist movement which has roots in the days of Soviet occupation and emerged out of the Afghan civil war in around 1994 held power between 1996 and 2001. Malala Yousafzai on Syria It has continued to wage deadly terrorist attacks including the killing of four people in a bomb attack at a US airfield last month and a Taliban suicide bomber s murder of nearly 40 people near Kabul. A Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai who went on to become the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate for her activism in Pakistan in October 2012. More about: Afghanistan Taliban gender
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Siliguri: The India women s football team on Tuesday began their SAFF Championship 2016 campaign in style as they routed Afghanistan 5-1 in their opening Group B match at the Kanchenjunga Stadium.The India team celebrate a goal in their match against Afghanistan. Image credit: Twitter/@IndianFootballKamala Devi opened scoring in the third minute even before the spectators could settle down. The early goal instilled more vigour into the Indian team to change the gear in their pursuit of more goals.At the half-hour mark the referee awarded a penalty in the favour of the hosts and AIFF Women s Player of the Year Sasmita Malik did not waste the chance to double the lead from the spot.India netted the third goal three minutes later from a brilliant piece of individual skill from Kamala Devi. She sneaked past the opposition defender from the left cut into the penalty box and whacked the back of the net leaving the Afghan goalie stranded.In the dying minutes of the first half Grace joined the party to take the scoreline to 4-0.After the changeover it was a completely different Afghanistan outfit who came out of the dressing room and the game was not a one-way traffic anymore.Afghanistan players tried to control the game from their half and started building attacks to break the Indian defiance.Although the Indian defenders show their resilience to thwart the Afghani girls every effort finally the deadlock was broken two minutes before the regulation time.Muhtaz Farkhunda tapped it home to net their first goal of the tournament sending the Afghanistan dressing room into celebration.Three minutes later AIFF Emerging Player of the Year Sanju completed the tally for the defending champions.India will take on neighbours Bangladesh on 31 December while Afghanistan will meet Bangladesh in their must-win fixture on 29 December.First Published On : Dec 28 2016 09:48 IST
Photo Tribal leaders at a hotel in Kabul Afghanistan in 2007. They were seeking to open talks with the Taliban one of several overlapping efforts to lure the militants to the negotiating table. One track involving a Norwegian diplomat and an emissary from the Taliban s founder began the same year. Credit Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press OSLO At a corner table of the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan s capital an emissary from the Taliban s supreme leader arrived with a message of peace.It was 2007 as the Afghan Taliban insurgency was growing bolder. The United States-led international coalition was fixated on defeating the Taliban militarily and that mission would only intensify when President Obama sent in tens of thousands more troops starting in 2009.But that evening at the Marriott in Islamabad the talk was about diplomacy and there were no Americans in the room. Alf Arne Ramslien a senior Norwegian diplomat who had cultivated relationships and trust within the Taliban for years was meeting with a confidant of Mullah Muhammad Omar the movement s reclusive founder who was directing the insurgency from exile in Pakistan.The Taliban emissary gave Mr. Ramslien a list of five names that Mullah Omar had tasked with exploring the possibility of peace talks. They needed the help of a facilitator he said and Mr. Ramslien was it. Continue reading the main story
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