Tolo News: “We are very concerned to hear that some of the women involved in the incident and in the event in Bamiyan may have been detained by the Taliban. This of course reminds everyone of the incident over months ago when the Taliban detained women protestors and denied having them in custody and held
8am: Local sources in Bamiyan province have confirmed that the Taliban insurgents have arrested 11 women accused of disrupting the support program arranged by the Taliban in the center of the province. The women were arrested on Saturday, April 2. The sources told Hasht-e Subh that three of the arrested women are charged with taking
8am: Due to lack of security threats that Taliban insurgents were behind that, the former government could not utilize the national underground reserves. No doubt that Taliban now can extract them, as there is no rebels to create terror and insurgencies in the mining sites. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Army officials in Bamiyan say that they will counter any activity of their opponents, and apparently one of the reasons for the deployment of this army brigade in Bamiyan is to contain possible threats in the coming spring. Click here to read more (external link).
Al Jazeera: Up to 50 children, most of them girls, attend the informal school – not far from where historic giant Buddha statues were blown up by the Taliban 20 years ago. The school runs for two hours daily in the morning offering an opportunity to the impoverished community at a time the country has
8am: The National Ski Federation organized its first training session among 50 athletes from Kabul, Ghazni, and Bamiyan provinces. The three-day ski competitions were organized on Friday in the Qarghnatoo area of central Bamiyan. The head of the ski federation also said that in a recent meeting with high-ranking Taliban officials, they did not allow
8am: Since August 15, Taliban officials from the province’s agriculture and livestock department began collecting tithes from people in Bamiyan. In the process, the Taliban took one-tenth of every crop and animal of the peasants. Click here to read more (external link).
Reuters: The winter landscape around the deep, blue mountain lakes of Band-e-Amir in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan presents an arresting spectacle empty of people – but the absence of visitors is costing locals dearly. Click here to read more (external link).
NBC News: Sidiq Ullah, who is a supporter of the militant group, came to see the historic site this week with friends from Kandahar, around 350 miles southwest of Bamiyan. Now that the Taliban are in control, he said, he feels free to tour the country. “I was young when these were destroyed, about 7
WSJ: The Taliban’s new outreach to the Shiite minority goes only so far. Hundreds of Hazara families were displaced by Pashtuns in parts of the Daikundi province in September. The community’s sole representative in Afghanistan’s new government, dominated by Pashtun Sunni clerics, is a deputy minister of health. In Bamiyan province, overwhelmingly populated by Shiites,