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Several Barbers Arrested by Taliban in Farah Province

18th March, 2023 · admin

8am: Local sources in Farah province report the arrest and imprisonment of several barbers by Taliban in this province. On Friday, sources reported that Taliban arrested more than 20 barbers in 10 days on the charge of trimming and shaving the beards of youths in Farah. Taliban have imprisoned many barbers for three to five

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Posted in Economic News, Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Farah, Life under Taliban rule |
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Residents Concerned About Taliban Gathering Data on Widows and Females in Households

12th March, 2023 · admin

8am: The Taliban have recently started collecting data on people living in major cities in Afghanistan. Their local staff have been distributing forms to gather information about local citizens, which they have referred to as “local passports”. One of the questions on the forms asks about the number of widows and young girls in each

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Posted in Afghan Women, Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Balkh, Life under Taliban rule |
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Taliban Have Turn Afghanistan into a Living Hell

24th February, 2023 · admin

8am: Over the past eighteen months, the Taliban have been known to arrest, torture, and humiliate former soldiers, rebellious women and girls, and analysts. This has been followed by a new wave of arrests in the past month, with more than fifty citizens, including politicians, university professors, analysts, women and girls, former soldiers, and civilians,

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Posted in Afghan Women, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban torture |
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With Highest Maternal Mortality in Asia, Afghanistan Heading for Even Worse

24th February, 2023 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News February 23, 2023 Afghanistan has a higher maternal mortality rate than all its six neighbors combined, according to a World Health Organization report released Thursday, and experts say the maternal health crisis is feared to get worse. The landlocked country’s 620 fatalties per 100,000 live births is the highest in Asia,

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Everyday Life, Health News, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Mortality Rates, Taliban government failure, Taliban war on women |
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The Thrill Is Gone For Valentine’s Day In Taliban-Controlled Kabul

15th February, 2023 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi February 14, 2023 St. Valentine had a difficult time finding love in Afghanistan, but his namesake holiday quickly rose in popularity after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Kabul’s iconic Flower Street soon blossomed with red roses and sweetheart kitsch every February 14 as romance-minded Afghans abandoned tradition and put

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Posted in Everyday Life, Society, Taliban | Tags: Kabul, Life under Taliban rule |
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Taliban fighters moan about ‘having to be in the office from 8 till 4’, their daily commute and how dull life is since taking over Afghanistan and becoming civil servants, with many admitting ‘I miss jihad’

7th February, 2023 · admin

Daily Mail (UK): After decades of war, the blood-thirsty fighters have spoken of their disdain for office life and are reminiscing about the Taliban’s past and their lives which they claim to be ‘free of restrictions’.  After the realisation of how day-to-day life works, former soldier Abdul Nafi claimed to miss the war as he

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Posted in Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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Despite Taliban Ban, Secret Schools Educate Afghan Girls

22nd January, 2023 · admin

Sarah Zaman VOA News January 22, 2023 WASHINGTON — Every morning, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kabul, Afghanistan, girls secretly gather in a house to study, something that millions of girls around the world do freely. As the global community marks International Day of Education on Tuesday, Afghanistan is the only country where girls

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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Education department in Afghanistan instructs employees to keep beards

18th January, 2023 · admin

Minute Mirror (Pakistan): In Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, the education department has instructed male employees to keep beards and female employees to wear hijab. The Directorate of Education warned employees that employees who do not follow the order can be dismissed from service. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Crime and Punishment, Economic News, Everyday Life, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Nangarhar |
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Poverty Trauma and Taliban’s Misogyny: Forced, Underage Marriages Increased in Afghanistan

8th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Hasht-e-Sobh has found that the deprivation of women has increased family violence, selling and making the girls get forcibly married while being underage in Afghan society. In the meantime, old men and some of the Taliban authorities are trying to abuse the destitution of families and get married to their virgin, underage daughters. Click

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Posted in Afghan Women, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Domestic Violence, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists, Taliban war on women |
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Displaying Images of Living Things Banned by Taliban in Zabul

7th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Local sources confirmed that the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Agents in Zabul warned shopkeepers in Qalat city, the capital city of Zabul province, to avoid displaying any kind of photos in their shops, in a virtue promotion campaign on Friday, December 6. Based on the new order, it is forbidden to even hang photos

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Posted in Everyday Life, Society, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Zabul |
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