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Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up

15th June, 2023 · admin

WP: In 2001, Taliban founder Mohammad Omar declared the Buddhas false gods and announced plans to destroy them. Ignoring pleas from around the world, Taliban fighters detonated explosives and fired antiaircraft guns to smash the immense sixth-century reliefs to pieces. The attack on the treasured ancient monument stunned the international community and cemented the Taliban’s

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Posted in Economic News, History, Taliban, Travel | Tags: Bamiyan, Buddha Statues, Life under Taliban rule |
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Historic House of Maulana Balkhi’s Father Needs Restoration, Locals Say

14th June, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: Cultural activists and residents of Balkh said that the remains of the building of Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi’s father, Khanqah of Bahauddin Walad, are collapsing. According to the residents, the Khanqah of Bahauddin Walad building is visited by many tourists every year and it is an important historical monument and it should be

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Posted in Art and Culture, History | Tags: Rumi |
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Afghan Drug Trade; Cartels, Trafficking Route, and Government Complicity

31st May, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Several related economic activities are involved in Afghanistan drug trafficking. Cartels maintain a symbiotic relationship with the Taliban by giving farmers advances to plant ephedra and opium while providing the financial assistance necessary to keep the jihadist proto-state alive. These cartels use Pakistani sources to facilitate the acquisition of chemicals required to produce drugs.

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: opium, Taliban and Drugs |
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Ashraf Ghani’s Legacy for Afghanistan: A Bankrupt Government and a Desperate Nation

30th May, 2023 · admin

8am: Many who worked in the Afghan government between 2014 and 2021 expressed dissatisfaction with Ghani’s management style, characterizing him as a micro-manager. Ghani was known to become irate over minor matters, and he was often insulting to ministers and other high-ranking government officials. Additionally, he was an extremely authoritarian and dictatorial manager, wanting to

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Posted in Corruption, Ethnic Issues, History, Political News | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ghani Government Failure |
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The Treaty of Hirmand Water Division; Are the Disputes Serious?

25th May, 2023 · admin

8am: The question here is whether the current conflict over Hirmand water is serious? And do the threats from Iranian officials and lower-ranking Taliban fighters signal the seriousness of the conflict? – The answer to the two questions above is “no.” Engaging in a military conflict is not beneficial for either Iran or the Taliban.

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Posted in History, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban | Tags: Helmand River, water |
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Iran-Afghanistan dispute over shared water resources and way out

17th May, 2023 · admin

Press TV May 17, 2023 By Press TV Staff Writer Iran and Afghanistan, two neighboring South Asian countries, have no major territorial disputes, but a festering disagreement over the allocation of shared water resources has plagued their relations for two centuries. Recently, the problem has become even more pronounced amid long spells of drought in southeastern Iran,

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Posted in Economic News, History, Iran-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Helmand River, water |
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How Did the Illiterate Mullah from Kandahar Suddenly Become “Amir Al-Momineen”?

17th May, 2023 · admin

8am: The sudden appearance of Mullah Omar is due to many factors. Certainly, foreign and intelligence factors played an effective role in Mullah Omar’s growth, whereas other factors cannot be overlooked. During the two decades that he was the leader of the Taliban, legends were attributed to him to help him manage his organization without

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Posted in History, Taliban | Tags: Mullah Omar |
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Saur 7: Fall of Daoud Khan Remembered

27th April, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: Thursday, April 27, 2023, is the 45th anniversary of the collapse of the first Afghan president Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan. The People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan led a coup against Daoud Khan’s government. On the same day, after five years of his presidency, Daoud Khan and 18 of his family members were killed,

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Posted in History | Tags: Mohammad Daoud Khan |
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Picking Up The Pieces

22nd March, 2023 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: The recent past has not been kind to Afghanistan’s pre-Islamic heritage. Will history repeat itself under the new Taliban government? Just months before the Taliban was ousted from power in 2001, the hard-line Islamist group took a wrecking ball to Afghanistan’s pre-Islamic history. That spring, the Bamiyan Buddhas that had stood

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Posted in Art and Culture, History, Taliban |
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Khalilzad’s Memories of Fahim

17th March, 2023 · admin

8am: Khalilzad compared Massoud to Fahim, noting that Massoud was an effective resistance leader with a charismatic and televised face, whereas Fahim was a stout man with a stiff and well–groomed beard and an introverted demeanor. Although Fahim was shrewd, he was not as skilled as Massoud in forming political coalitions. Massoud‘s death and Bon‘s

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Posted in History, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mohammad Qasim Fahim, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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