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Taliban Support for Kuchi Land Grabbers Could Bolster Resistance

31st December, 2022 · admin

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

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Posted in Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Kuchis, Land grabbing, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun Kuchi Invasion, Pashtun war on Hazaras |
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International Aid Money Pillaging by Taliban Goes Unnoticed, Reports FP

31st December, 2022 · admin

8am: “Tens of millions of dollars are flown into Kabul every week by the United States and the United Nations for distribution across the country as humanitarian catastrophe grips tighter with winter closing in. Sources inside and outside the country say much of the money never reaches those who need it,” according to a Foreign

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Posted in Corruption, Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Secretly funding Taliban, Taliban stealing aid, West funding Taliban, West supporting Taliban |
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US Campaigners Raise Funds for Afghan Blast Survivor

23rd November, 2022 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News November 22, 2022 The explosion at Kaaj educational center in Kabul was so powerful that it lifted 17-year-old Fatima Amiri off the ground before thrusting her slim body several meters away. “I did not faint,” Amiri told VOA over the phone from her home in Kabul. “I ran to a nearby

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Fatima Amiri, Hazaras, Life under Taliban rule |
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Taliban evict residents of 17 villages in Daykundi, Ghor provinces: Mohaqiq

13th November, 2022 · admin

Aamaj: Head of people’s unity party, Mohammad Mohaqiq, said that the residents of 17 villages have been evicted by Taliban in Ghor and Daykundi provinces. Before that people were evicted in Ghazni and Takhar by nomads while Taliban supported them. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Daikundi, ethnic cleansing, Ethnic descrimination, Ghor, Hazaras, Life under Taliban rule, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Pashtunization |
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It’s time to recognize Afghanistan’s silenced genocide

26th October, 2022 · admin

The Emory Wheel: Hazaras are a religious and ethnic minority; Hazara Afghans predominately practice the Shi’a sect of Islam, while most of Afghanistan’s other ethnic groups follow the Sunni sect. As such, Hazaras find themselves excluded from general civil society and are particularly vulnerable to discrimination along ethnic and religious lines. According to Hamkar, many

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, genocide, Hazaras |
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Taliban Removes Persian Language from Herat University’s Signboard and Sanaie Weekly in Ghazni

28th September, 2022 · admin

8am: In continuation of the Taliban’s recent anti-Persian initiatives, the group has removed the word “Danishgah = University” from the Signboard of Herat University in Herat province. On Wednesday, September 28, local sources talking to Hasht-e Subh said that the Taliban group has installed a new signboard with the Pashtu version of “Herat Pohantoon =

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Ghazni, Herat, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtunization, War on Farsi language |
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Taliban Launches House-to-House Search Operations in Kunduz Province

27th August, 2022 · admin

8am: According to sources, the Taliban group launched this search operation on Friday night in the areas of Rastaqabad, Sardawra, Karte Faizabad and University Alley. Sources have added that the Taliban have searched only the Tajik areas of this city with ethnic segregation. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Kunduz, Pashtun Taliban, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Taliban home raids |
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Provincial Secretary Takes Lead During Governor’s Absence in Samangan, Deputy Governor Not Trusted

3rd July, 2022 · admin

8am: Local sources in Samangan report that the acting Taliban governor in this province illegally appoints his secretary as the caretaker of the province instead of the deputy governor in his absence. Sources add that this behavior of the Taliban governor shows his distrust towards the non-Pashtun Taliban-affiliated members in Samangan province. Click here to

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Samangan |
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Tightly Controlled Afghan Assembly Closes With Call For Nations To Recognize Taliban Government

3rd July, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 2, 2022 The grand meeting in Kabul of more than 4,000 male clerics and tribal leaders ended on July 2 with a declaration of support for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and calls on the international community to recognize the country’s as-of-yet unrecognized government. The three-day “grand assembly of ulema,” or religious scholars,

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Political News, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Loya Jirga |
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Taliban Removes Non-Pashtun Staff From Government Offices in Northern Afghanistan, Sources Say

23rd June, 2022 · admin

8am: A well-known local source in Faryab province told Hasht-e Subh on the condition of anonymity that the Taliban were removing non-Pashtuns who head government institutions and replacing them with Pashtun affiliates. Referring to the arrest of Mawlawi Aref, an Uzbek commander in charge of the Aqina railway port, the source said that the Taliban

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Faryab, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun Taliban, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan, Uzbeks |
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