NIKKEI: …Afghan mining ministry lacks the technical and other capacity to manage and oversee such contracts, warning this could lead to a grim outlook of “corruption, mismanagement and environmental disasters. “Taliban factions in Takhar have at times engaged in violent confrontations over control of valuable resources. Media reports said the Taliban leadership last month replaced
8am: Local sources in Bamiyan are reporting that the Taliban have detained 24 residents from one of the villages in the center of this province, based on the claim of ownership by another individual. According to sources, on Wednesday, September 13th, Taliban security forces in Bamiyan detained at least 24 residents of the village of
8am: Sources informed the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Tuesday, 12 September, that Abdullah Sarhadi, the Taliban governor of Bamiyan province, has imprisoned two individuals from the Pashta-e Gharghari village because they did not hand over their land to the Kuchi nomads. This comes after last year when the Taliban’s Conflict Resolution Commission had warned the
8am: Following the Taliban’s coercion of Hazara people to pay reparations to the Kuchis (nomads), residents of three villages in Nawur District, Ghazni Province, are now compelled to pay five million Afghanis each. This decision was made based on the claims of a Kuchi individual who alleges that ten years ago, 230 of his sheep
8am: Sources continue to cite another motive behind the Taliban’s actions as the dismissal of non-Pashtun individuals and the relocation of “trustworthy” members of the group. A source added, “The goal in this regard is to move individuals deemed more trustworthy. It’s the path toward becoming a mafia-like accumulation of wealth. Specific individuals, perhaps in
8am: In a Taliban-ruled class-based society, suffering, death, hunger, and catastrophe are intensified compared to other societies. Ethnopolitics exacerbates the existing injustices, rendering those unrelated to the Taliban’s favored tribe more vulnerable than their Taliban-affiliated counterparts. Consequently, the Taliban’s notion of justice is not only marred by its inherent defects but is also deeply entrenched
8am: However, as this program launches, some Parwan residents have voiced concerns about the fairness of the aid distribution process. They claim an imbalance, favoring certain recipients repeatedly. These residents continue to accuse the Taliban of interfering in compiling the beneficiary list, alleging that aid distribution is notably higher in areas historically accessible to the
8am: Sources have confirmed to the Hasht-e Subh Daily that the Taliban engage in discrimination when distributing aid in districts that receive the most assistance from aid organizations. The sources indicate that aid is only available to individuals associated with the Taliban, while families whose members were active in the previous regime’s national security forces
8am: During the years of military confrontation with the security forces of the previous regimes, the Taliban were able to secure the assistance of several Uzbek, Tajik, and Hazara leaders in certain areas, including the north of Afghanistan. These local leaders, who were familiar with the territory of the northern provinces, made a significant contribution
Michael Hughes: The Taliban have much to gain – both economically and militarily – by enabling the Kuchis, Pashtun nomads, to seize land and build homes within sedentary communities in Hazarajat and other areas in the country’s northeast. However, the strategy is also pregnant with risk: for land disputes have historically been known to spark