8am: The name and history of Taliban creation are associated with opium and drug trafficking, along with the implementation of strict and extreme religious practices. This spring, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of this group, issued an order prohibiting the cultivation, production, purchase, and sale of narcotics. But the findings of Hasht-e Subh Daily show
Khaama: According to Abdul Salam Jawad Akhundzada, a spokesman for the Taliban Ministry of Commerce and Industry, products including gasoline, diesel, gas, and wheat will be purchased at a “special discount” in Russian currency. According to the agreement, Russia will supply a million tons of petrol, one million tons of diesel, 500,000 tons of liquefied
8am: Complaints about overtaxing, overcharging, and extortion of Taliban militants under the name of transportation taxes are raised while there have already been reports about the takeover of citizens’ private businesses by the Taliban, disorder in the transportation sector, and the Taliban’s failure to meet the necessary conditions for registering cars and drivers on the
LA Times: In previous years, the Afghan central bank — known as Da Afghanistan Bank, or DAB — would withdraw annually 3 billion to 4 billion afghanis’ worth (about $33 million to $45 million) of decrepit banknotes and substitute them with new ones printed abroad. (Afghanistan does not have its own mint.) But the international
Economic Times: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that Washington would be providing Afghanistan with $327 million in much-needed aid. The aid comes as the country’s humanitarian crisis has continued for more than one year since the Taliban took over. Blinken issued a statement Friday last week announcing the additional $327
8am: At least 8,582 people who were begging in Kabul city have been rounded up by the Taliban in more than a month. The committee for collecting beggars, headed by Mullah Baradar, the economic deputy of the Taliban’s Prime Minister, published these statistics on Monday (September 26th). These statistics, recorded since the beginning of collecting
Bloomberg: Experts who follow the country say that after two decades of warfare, the Taliban haven’t managed to transition from insurgents to rulers. The government is run largely based on orders from spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, who rules from the Taliban birthplace in the Kandahar region bordering Pakistan. All of that is also giving China
AP: The number of children put to work in Afghanistan is growing, fueled by the collapse of the economy after the Taliban took over the country and the world cut off financial aid just over a year ago. Click here to read more (external link). Related Photos: Backbreaking work for kids in Afghan brick kilns
Michael Hughes: The Taliban’s draconian gender-based restrictions are harmful to Afghan women and threaten to undermine the country’s entire health system, two new reports by medical experts revealed this week. The reports come as several governments and NGOs across the world ratchet up pressure on the Taliban to roll back restrictions imposed on women and
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 24, 2022 Maryam Hotak loves eating out and Kabul, the Afghan capital where she lives, has an ample number of eateries offering succulent kebabs, greasy beef pilaf, and delicious “manto” dumplings. The city of 5 million’s fast-food joints and upscale restaurants offer foreign and Afghan cuisine. Unfortunately, many of these eateries