8am: Residents of the districts along the Kokcha River (Dasht Qala, Rustaq, Yengi Qala, Darqad, Chah Aab and Khwaja Bahauddin) in Takhar province report that during the course of the last year, about 700 Kuchi families – Pashtun Nomads – have been settled in Khwaja Bahauddin and Dasht Qala districts. The Taliban have set a
8am: Local sources told Hasht-e Subh on Monday (August 22nd) that the Taliban are moving the nomads who have just arrived in Takhar province from Pakistan and southern provinces to lands belonging to the local people. Sources indicate that around 100 nomadic families have come from Pakistan and southern provinces to the Khwaja Bahauddin district
8am: After seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban has slowly and steadily begun to purge non-Pashtun commanders off its ranks. So far, several Uzbek and Tajik commanders of the group have been ousted from the government in control of the Taliban. Among the Taliban commanders ousted by the group is Mawlawi Mehdi Mujahid. Mahdi
8am: The Taliban’s move has no legal or logical justification. Students are admitted to universities after passing an entrance test – known as the Kankor Examination. Shifting students from one university to another is against the higher education law, and above all, it ignores the right of those students who have entered top universities with
8am: Simultaneously with the escalation of the clashes in Panjshir, the Taliban’s supreme leader has recently appointed Mohammad Nasim Noori as a new governor for the province, local sources reported. The new appointed governor for Panjshir is from Helmand province and a Pashtun, according to sources. Taliban members have not yet provided details on his
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: The survey also found that private Afghan TV channel Tolo has significantly dropped in the ratings in Tajikistan since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August. Asked why, those surveyed said the channel now has more programs in the Pashto language, which they don’t understand. Click here to read
Nature.com: The academic week has been split so that male and female students can be taught separately, for three days each. Academics say this segregation, and the shortage of female lecturers, has reduced the quality of education, particularly for women. Some subjects have even been discontinued for female students, according to some scholars and students.
8am: In a new move, the Taliban group has removed Persian and Baluchi languages from the courtroom signboard in Nimruz province. Nimruz residents have criticized this move of the Taliban, saying that the province has never been a place of ethnic disputes, but the Taliban are trying to create ethnic and linguistic divisions in the
8am: After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, armed nomads from eastern and southern provinces and even Pakistan have entered parts of the Hazarajat. The nomads, who have the full support of the Taliban and are fully armed, claim ownership of the people’s lands and are destroying farms. Residents of some areas in Maidan Wardak and
8am: Sources in Versaj district of Takhar province have confirmed that the Taliban rebels had previously warned the local residents in Versaj of forced displacement. Based on that warning, the rebels have started harassing the people and forcefully expelling the residents from their houses and areas. Yesterday, the Taliban fighters evacuated the houses of Mohammad