Nine Afghans have gone on trial in France over allegations of attempting to smuggle migrants through the dangerous Channel Water from France into Britain, media reports said. According to a report of AFP, the Afghans went on trial while France and Britain have already signed an agreement to prevent human trafficking on the perilous rout More
Habibullah Qadri, counternarcotics minister during former president Hamid Karzai’s government, says the then government failed to win the war on drugs due to corruption and money Afghanistan received in this regard was mostly ended up with foreign companies. Qadri claims many officials in the Karzai administration, including some cabinet members, were involved in drug trafficking. More
Former presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqi says the politicians living abroad must apologise to the people for their failure and inaction. He believes a permanent and pragmatic solution needs to be found to the multiple problems currently facing the country. Sediqi, who spoke for ex-president Ashraf Ghani, made the remarks in a special video interview program Sarnawesht (Destiny). He blamed America’s former special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad for ambiguity with regard to the peace process. More
