8am: Local sources say that the Taliban have launched house-to-house search operations in the southern Kandahar province. Local sources say that door-to-door searches have started in the southern provinces because security incidents and guerilla attacks have recently occurred in these provinces. After Helmand and Kandahar, house-to-house searches are scheduled to begin in Uruzgan and Zabul
Xinhua: Four people including two children were injured after a blast shocked the Zhari district in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Monday, provincial administration spokesman Hajji Zahid said. Click here read more (external link).
BBC News: “You can’t say anything at all,” he said, describing how some were simply threatened whilst others were kept in jail. “The Taliban have different types of torture for them, hitting them with cables and pipes, holding their heads under water.” Click here to read more (external link).
8am: According to local sources, the conflict between the Taliban and the attackers continued for half an hour, which ended after the death of 2 Taliban fighters and 3 attackers. Local Taliban officials in Kandahar consider this attack to be of ISKP affiliates. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Three hundred people have reportedly been hospitalized and are being treated for cholera in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, officials said Tuesday. The death toll has not yet been confirmed but on Sunday reports indicated at least 20 people had died in Helmand. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: A local source in Ghor province said that the Taliban raided Mohammad Moradi’s house, one of the commanders of the public uprising forces in the former regime, killing him along with his wife and daughter on Saturday night (June 25th). According to the source, the incident took place in Chahar Asyab village of Sar-e-Jangal,
8am: The Taliban’s Administration for Promoting Virtue has installed advertising posters in most parts of Kandahar depicting women without a ‘head-to-toe cover’ as animals. The posters read: “A Muslim woman who does not wear the Islamic hijab pretends to be an animal.” Earlier, the Taliban leadership had ordered women to cover their bodies and faces
ANI: Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city have compelled the shopkeepers to install their group’s white flag in their shops and buildings. Health clinics and public baths have too been asked to follow the order. The order has been issued by the Taliban officials in PD9 of Kandahar Municipality in a letter to shopkeepers and
Ariana: According to Kandahar Chamber of Commerce officials, fruit trees, including apricots, plums, peaches and others, have been badly damaged, reducing their summer yield. Officials said farmers sell their produce to local markets around the country and export abroad. However, this year, their harvests have been reduced significantly which has become a cause for concern.
8am: The head of the Taliban’s Virtue Promotion, Mawlawi Abdul Rahman, has ordered the province’s urban transportation services not to give ride women alone in cars, rickshaws, and bikes. According to him, carrying women alone in cars causes moral corruption. Click here to read more (external link).