The former President of Afghanistan, Prof. Sibghatullah Al-Mojaddedi calls on the President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. , amalia
KABUL: Afghanistan’s reconciliation commission said on Monday that wanted former Taliban leader Mulla Mohammed Omar and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar could be offered an amnesty and allowed to enter politics.Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, the head of the Independent National Commission for Peace in Afghanistan, said the amnesty would also cover Afghan detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.The offer would seem to contradict earlier statements by President Hamid Karzai who last year offered an olive branch to rank-and-file Taliban fighters but ruled out a rapprochement ...
The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan. Parwiz Kambaksh, 23, was convicted last week of downloading and distributing an article insulting Islam. He has denied the charge.The UN has criticised the sentence and said the journalist did not have legal representation during the case.The Afghan government has said that the sentence was not final. A government spokesman said recently that the case would be handled "very carefully".Now the Afghan Senate has issued a statement on the case - it was not ...