Ariana: Residents of Afghanistan’s capital report that life in Kabul remains calm and stable following last night’s airstrikes by the Pakistani military. People began Friday morning normally, without fear or anxiety, according to local accounts. Marketplaces, commercial centers, and main roads across the city have seen regular activity, with families attending to daily routines. Citizens say the general atmosphere reflects confidence and a positive spirit throughout the capital. Click here to read more (external link).
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The Express Tribune (Pakistan): Afghanistan’s deepest struggle is not foreign invasion, but building an inclusive state across ethnic fault lines – Genuine decentralisation, equitable representation and constitutional safeguards for minority rights could help ease the zero-sum competition for control of Kabul. When power is overly concentrated, every political shift becomes existential. When authority is shared, political life becomes less combustible. 
Amu: Afghanistan has become a “graveyard for human rights,” the United Nations high commissioner for human rights said on Thursday, warning that an expanding body of Taliban decrees is entrenching repression, particularly against women and girls. Speaking at the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk said a “cascade of edicts and laws” issued since the Taliban returned to power in 2021 has had a “crushing impact” on the Afghan people and is being codified into an increasingly broad legal framework. 
8am: Recent Pakistani airstrikes in parts of Nangarhar and Paktika provinces have once again raised a fundamental question: when a state conducts operations across the border under the banner of “counterterrorism,” yet the result is the killing of women and children and the destruction of civilian homes, how should this situation be assessed under international law? Politically, these events continue the dangerous cycle of “attack, retaliation, attack” between Pakistan and the Taliban as Afghanistan’s de facto authorities. Legally, however, the matter extends beyond an international armed conflict. Targeting civilians or civilian objects, if it violates core principles of humanitarian law, may give rise to the question of war crimes. 
Afghanistan International: Richard Bennett, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, said in a new report that women’s and girls’ access to healthcare has been severely restricted since the Taliban returned to power. The report says bans on women’s education and employment, as well as restrictions on freedom of movement, have deepened the health crisis facing women.