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  • Nine months of Taliban’s rule: 80.9% of the cabinet combination and governors are Pashtuns and 98.4% of them are Taliban members, there is no woman and Hazara May 15, 2022
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  • Taliban Rebels Kill 3 Civilians in Andarab Baghlan May 15, 2022
  • Taliban: Over 130,000 Soldiers Recruited May 15, 2022
  • Chinese Scholarships Awarded to Taliban Affiliates May 15, 2022
  • Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry reject claims of ordering gender segregation in restaurants May 15, 2022
  • New Reports Of Fighting In Afghanistan’s Panjshir Trigger Fresh Claims Of Taliban War Crimes May 14, 2022
  • Taliban Rebels Kill a Trader at a Checkpoint in Kabul May 14, 2022
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Nine months of Taliban’s rule: 80.9% of the cabinet combination and governors are Pashtuns and 98.4% of them are Taliban members, there is no woman and Hazara

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Aamaj: Nine months after Taliban’s domination the latest survey of Aamaj News shows that 82.7% of the Taliban’s cabinet members are Pashtuns and 96.5% of them are their own members. According to this survey 79.4% of governors are Pashtuns and 100% of them are Taliban members. There are 6.8% Tajiks, 6.8% Uzbeks, and 3.4% Nuristanis in Taliban’s cabinet. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrmination, Pashtun dominated Taliban government, Pashtunization |

Journalists Claim Restrictions on Covering Security Incidents

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Tolo News: Jawad Etimad, a journalist, said he was arrested while covering a blast in PD5 of Kabul city. Etimad said he spent two days detained by the Islamic Emirate. Jawad Etimad is working for an online media outlet.  “They prevented me from making footage. They beat me with kicks and punches. And then they arrested me,” he said. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Censorship, Media, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Life under Taliban rule, Press Freedom |

1TV Afghanistan Dari News – May 15, 2022

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |

Taliban Rebels Kill 3 Civilians in Andarab Baghlan

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: As the killings of innocent civilians continue in Baghlan, Takhar, and Panjshir provinces, the Taliban rebels shot dead 3 more civilians in Andarab Baghlan province last night after severely torturing them. According to sources, the victims’ names are Hassan, Abdul Ghani, and Mujahid. Sources have confirmed that the victims had no affiliation with the National Resistance Front. Click here to read more (external link).

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Baghlan, Life under Taliban rule, Panjshir, Pashtun Taliban, Takhar, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan, War Crime |

Taliban: Over 130,000 Soldiers Recruited

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Taliban fighters (file photo)

Tolo News: “More than 130,000 people have been registered and this process will continue. With the completion of registration, the Afghans will see an independent, well-formed and committed military who will provide security and defend the Afghan soil and borders,” said Inayatullah Khwarazami, a spokesman for the MoD.  However, the uniform for the new troops has yet to be determined.  Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Security, Taliban |

Chinese Scholarships Awarded to Taliban Affiliates

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: China has allocated five government scholarships to Afghanistan in this new academic year, sources confirm. The source says the scholarships are given to Kandahar, Urozgan, and Helmand Taliban members who are all Pashtuns. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Corruption, Education, Ethnic Issues | Tags: Ethnic descrmination, Pashtun Taliban |

Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry reject claims of ordering gender segregation in restaurants

15th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Ariana: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has rejected claims that orders were given to restaurants in Herat to separate male and female patrons.  This comes after reports emerged recently that officials from the provincial department of promotion of virtue and prevention of vice visited restaurants and instructed owners to separate patrons according to their gender. Click here to read more (external link).

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New Reports Of Fighting In Afghanistan’s Panjshir Trigger Fresh Claims Of Taliban War Crimes

14th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi
May 13, 2022

PARWAN, Afghanistan — Resistance to the Taliban is flaring up in northeastern Afghanistan, and as reports of deadly fighting increase, so are claims of war crimes against civilians.

The fighting is centered in the center and south of Panjshir Province, a traditional hotbed of ethnic Tajik resistance to the Pashtun-dominated Taliban and the last province to fall to the extremist group after it seized control of the rest of the country in August.

Residents of the southern Dara district’s Abdullah Khel Valley told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi by telephone that an influx of Taliban fighters to counter growing unrest had led to extrajudicial killings, torture, and beatings.

The violence has been attributed by some to defiance of the Taliban’s declaration that Eid al-Fitr be celebrated on May 1. Locals marked the Islamic holiday on May 2 after a prominent imam criticized the Taliban’s decision as politicized, and issued a fatwa calling for it to be celebrated in keeping with the date set by Mecca.

They also report high casualties among Taliban fighters deployed from other provinces to quell fighting led by the resurgent anti-Taliban National Resistance Front (NRF) and to round up local religious figures and other potential insurrection leaders.

“As they [the Taliban] searched for the resistance, they encountered difficulties but took a number of young men hostage,” said one resident of Abdullah Khel Valley, who declined to give his name out of fear of retribution from the Taliban.

“There are dead bodies in every corner,” said Mullah Mahad, 41, another resident of the valley. “But they [locals] don’t have the right to bury their dead.”

Another valley resident, Gul Aqa, said that clashes with the NRF resulted in heavy losses for the Taliban. “The Taliban sent more troops and military weapons to suppress the gunmen, but this time the National Resistance Front forces based in the Abdullah Khel Valley attacked the Taliban convoy,” he said.

The reported fighting has led to a war of words between the NRF and the Taliban, with the resistance group claiming in recent days that it had killed scores of Taliban fighters and taken control of large parts of the Panjshir Province’s southern Abshar and Dara districts, including the Abdullah Khel Valley.

The Taliban has denied the NRF’s claims, with spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid telling Radio Azadi last week that no such militant group is currently active in Afghanistan.

But the Taliban’s provincial police chief, Maulvi Dad Mohammad Batar, acknowledged that “there have been shootings,” but dismissed them as few in number and as acts of desperation carried out from the mountaintops.

Abubakar Sadiq, a spokesman for the Taliban’s governor of Panjshir Province, told Radio Azadi that the police chief in Rokha district had been arrested in connection with recent clashes and that “if it becomes clear that people who have been detained are involved, they will be arrested, and if they are guilty they will be dealt with legally.”

The spokesman later confirmed that six Taliban fighters had been killed in clashes in the southern Dara district, according to the Taliban-run Islamic News Agency of Afghanistan.

Reports have suggested that dozens of Taliban fighters have been killed in clashes in Panjshir, in the most significant military resistance to the militant group since it seized power.

The reports of renewed fighting have been accompanied by multiple videos on social media of apparent war crimes being carried out by Taliban fighters. The videos, which RFE/RL was not able to independently verify, purportedly show Taliban fighters beating civilians and firing at civilian homes.

Other videos show alleged Taliban fighters shooting men one by one in a trench and allegedly executing a resistance fighter.

The reports of the mistreatment and killings of civilians led the European Union’s envoy to Afghanistan, Andreas von Brandt, to express his concerns about the situation in Panjshir Province. “We mourn the innocent loss of life,” von Brandt wrote on Twitter on May 10. “Once more, the situation underlines the need for overdue inclusive solutions in governing Afghanistan.”

The NRF was formed after the Taliban recaptured Kabul on August 15, 2021, and held out against the extremist group for several weeks.

The militia is made up of civilians and former Afghan government forces. It is led by Ahmad Masud, son of former mujahedin commander Ahmad Shah Masud, who used the Panjshir Valley as a base to fight the Soviets in the 1980s and the Taliban in the 1990s.

Masud’s assassination by Al-Qaeda militants preceded the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The September 11 attacks, in turn, led to the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 that overthrew the Taliban’s hard-line regime.

Local residents alleged in comments to Radio Azadi that some civilians were being subjected to torture for showing any allegiance to the slain Masud.

The resident of Abdullah Khel Valley who declined to give his name claimed that one man was thrown off a cliff by Taliban fighters because he had been photographed alongside a poster of the legendary commander. The source further claimed that the Taliban cut the ears off the man’s 16-year-old companion.

The Taliban has denied accusations by the NRF that is has detained and killed civilians, and has even claimed that many civilians in Panjshir Province’s Dara district have sided with the Taliban since their arrival. The extremist group recently distributed a video purportedly showing a gathering of Panjshir residents to discuss their security issues with the Taliban.

Ali Meysam Nazari, who heads foreign relations for the NRF, responded by denouncing the Taliban’s claims as lies, saying civilians had only gathered for the video under threat.

Aside from the reports of fighting in Panjshir, there have also been reports of increasing resistance to Taliban rule in the neighboring provinces of Kapisa, Parwan, Baghlan, and Badakhshan.

The Taliban has vowed to counter any resistance in those provinces.

Written by Michael Scollon based on reporting in Afghanistan by RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi. The correspondent’s identity has been withheld for security reasons

Copyright (c) 2022. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, NRF - National Resistance Front, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan resistance against Taliban, ethnic cleansing, Life under Taliban rule, Panjshir, Pashtun Taliban, Tajiks, Taliban War on Muslims, War Crime |

Taliban Rebels Kill a Trader at a Checkpoint in Kabul

14th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: Since the Taliban returned to power, the terror group’s rebels have repeatedly opened irresponsible fire on civilians at their checkpoints in a number of provinces, killing many innocent residents. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |

1TV Afghanistan Dari News – May 14, 2022

14th May, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |
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