Afghan officials: Bombs attached to motorbikes kill 4 people
[ARABNEWS] Afghan officials say bombs attached to cycle of violences have killed four people in separate attacks.
One struck outside a sports stadium in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, killing three on Monday. Akramuddin, a provincial police official, says the kaboom occurred as former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as
The Most Evil Man in the Worldbut who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
was holding a rally at the stadium in Jalalabad, the province’ capital.
Akramuddin, who like many Afghans uses only one name, says the blast took place as the rally ended. Ten people were maimed.
Hekmatyar, previously a declared terrorist by the United States, signed a peace deal with President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..in 2017 and was removed from the list.
The second cycle of violence bomb went
kaboom!in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province. Spokesman Jelani Farhad says one person was killed and seven were maimed.
'Poor, innocent' Afghan farmers killed in raid targeting Taliban
[Al Jazeera] In the early hours of Saturday, as farmers watered their crops in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, a unit of the Afghan security and intelligence forces carried out a deadly raid.
At least seven farmers were killed in the assault on two villages in the province's Chaparhar district.
"We heard helicopters coming our way where we had been watering our crops from midnight. We heard them at around 4am. The helicopter fired exactly two times," said Mohammed Razaq, a farmer who was present at the time of the raid in Mano, one of the two villages attacked.
"I lost two of my cousins in the attack," he told Al Jazeera.