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Taliban Destroyed 25 Media Outlets in Kunduz in 3 Day Control: Nai
While Taliban have had control of Kunduz city for 3 days they have destroyed 35 media outlets.
Nai supporting open media in Afghanistan has stated that Government should provide necessary help and assistance to those media outlets that had been destroyed by Taliban in Kunduz.
Meanwhile the President special envoy on Good Governance has declared the media role important for reformation of the system in the country.
Head of Nai Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar said,” 25 media centers were destroyed and damaged badly,most of them were robbed or were set into fire, we demand its urgent reconstruction for media in Kunduz.”
Correspondents are experiencing serious challenges with all Governmental departments specially with security ones Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar head of Nai added.
Meanwhile Afghanistan special envoy to good Governance Ahmad Zai Masoud said,” the following component will create the reformed system in the country, therefore having access to information is one of the basic principles of media.”
The gathering ended with admiring a number of media specially Ariana News for what it does to promote media role in Afghanistan.
Reported Maroufa Zaki
US Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that Joe Biden administration left about $80 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, which was a “catastrophic error.”
Vance made the remarks during a visit to a military base in Greenland.
He also said the Biden administration’s “catastrophic error” led to the deaths of 13 US soldiers in an attack during the evacuation at Kabul airport in August 2021.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump also criticized the abandonment of military equipment in Afghanistan and called for its return.
The Islamic Emirate, however, has said that the weapons left by the US in Afghanistan belong to the Afghans and will not be returned.
The Supreme Court announced on Saturday that based on the ruling of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, 2,463 prisoners have been pardoned and released on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
The court said in a statement that the prison terms of another 3,152 prisoners have been reduced.
Eid in Afghanistan will be celebrated on Sunday or Monday, depending on the moon sighting.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs on Saturday announced that feasibility studies of dams in four provinces of the country will begin this solar year.
The Economic Commission, led by Deputy PM Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in its recent meeting decided to include the survey and feasibility projects of Grumby Dam in Maidan Wardak, Qara Tiri Dam in Balkh, Shana Nari Dam in Kandahar, and Wuch Nari Dam in Paktia in the budget for the fiscal year 1404.
In the meeting, the issues of construction of the Kandahar bypass highway, construction of Arghistan Dam, 90 km of electricity line from Kabul to Jalalabad, and completion of Sheikh Misri substation in Jalalabad were also discussed, and it was decided that the Ministry of Finance will allocate the revenues obtained from the Ganda Kotal lead and zinc mine in Yakawlang district of Bamyan province to these projects.
The Economic Commission meeting also approved a plan for the private sector’s investment in a 40 megawatts solar power generation project in the Hesar Shahi Industrial Park in Nangarhar province. According the plan, the private sector will invest $50.69 million in the project.
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