Britney Spears #39; ex-lover killed in Afghanistan leaving pop star "devastated"
Britney Spears #39; ex-lover killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan leaving pop star "devastated" A hero pilot and former lover of Britney Spears , who helped her quit booze, has been killed by the...
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Published January 18, 2015
KABUL, Afghanistan Afghanistan is investigating a Cabinet nominee over allegedly being on an Interpol most-wanted list for tax evasion, a government spokesman said Sunday, a potential embarrassment for President Ashraf Ghani amid his pledges to root out corruption.
The probe focuses on Mohammad Yaqub Haidari, 52, the nominee to oversee the country's Agriculture Ministry. Interpol lists an Afghan man with the same name resembling Haidari as being wanted in Estonia for "large-scale tax evasion" and "fraudulent conversion," without elaborating.
The Associated Press could not immediately reach Haidari for comment. Afghanistan's private Tolo television station first reported on Haidari's alleged appearance on the list Saturday night.
Nazifullah Salarzai, a spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, said Sunday that if Haidari is wanted by Interpol, his nomination will be immediately withdrawn.
"If the investigation proves that the allegation against him is true, Afghan law will be enforced on him," Salarzai told the AP.
Ghani announced his Cabinet nominations last week after a delay of more than three months. Aides during the search described Ghani as eager to build a meritocratic government, and move away from the ethos of patronage and graft that characterized the previous 13 years under President Hamid Karzai. Ghani also said he didn't want to appoint anyone who previously held a ministerial post.
It's not immediately clear how Haidari found himself to be nominated to run the Agriculture Ministry. Before his nomination last week, few had heard of him.
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WASHINGTON: The commander of US forces in Afghanistan has warned that the Islamic State (IS) terror group is making recruitment in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"We are seeing reports of some recruiting," said Gen John Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support mission, during an interview with the US Army Times newspaper.
"There have been some night letter drops, there have been reports of people trying to recruit both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, quite frankly."
Also read: IS may recruit locals by exploiting sectarian divide: official
The Resolute Support is the name given to the new mission of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan who are now assisting Afghan security forces.
The change, however, does not prevent them from engaging those who attack them or target major Afghan defence installations.
US and Nato forces can also combat terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Gen Campbell said the IS group, which had a "hard message to sell" in Afghanistan, but there were concerns that the group had the potential to spread its message in the country and in neighbouring Pakistan.
"The Taliban have their allegiance to Mullah Omar and a different philosophy and ideology than ISIS, but, potentially, there are people who are disgruntled with the Taliban, they haven't seen [Taliban commander] Mullah Omar in years, or they want to go a different way," he said.
Those disgruntled with the Taliban leadership could be "vulnerable to the ISIS message, and so we're looking at it very hard", Gen Campbell said.
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IED explosion by EOD in Afghanistan
https://www.facebook.com/operatorsofvalhalla IED is found in Afghanistan and initiated by the EOD team.
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Discovery Channel Danish Afghanistan War Documentary Full Documentary
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