8am: Baloch residents of Nimroz province are raising complaints about what they describe as discriminatory and double-standard treatment by the Taliban. They say that years of drought had pushed most people in Nimroz to rely on informal fuel imports for their livelihoods, while others worked in passenger transport or guided laborers crossing smuggling routes into Iran in search of work. These sources of income, they say, have now been stripped from them and handed over to Taliban members drawn from a single ethnic group. The Baloch accuse the Taliban of ethnocentrism and of converting fuel imports and human smuggling into a mafia-style operation, declaring such activities forbidden for ordinary people while treating them as permissible for themselves and their close associates. These concerns over the Taliban’s double-standard treatment in Nimroz come as residents of several other provinces, including Badakhshan, raise similar grievances. Click here to read more (external link).