Ayaz Gul VOA News August 28, 2024 Islamabad — Pakistan urged Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders Wednesday to explain their relationship with a globally designated terrorist group waging cross-border bloodshed and address concerns about sweeping restrictions they have imposed on Afghan women. The remarks by Islamabad’s special representative to Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, came as the militant group in
Afghanistan International: The leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF) Ahmad Massoud has urged policymakers in Washington to heed the recommendations of the Hudson Institute, which has called for support for the NRF. Massoud stated that the Taliban are exploiting the world’s fatigue regarding Afghanistan to maintain their rule and continue suppressing the people, particularly
Ariana: The Ministry of Public Health has announced that no suspected or positive cases of monkey pox have been registered in Afghanistan. After receiving reports about two suspected cases of monkey pox in Kabul and Paktia, officials say that no suspected or positive cases of this disease have been registered in Afghanistan. Click here to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 27, 2024 Afghanistan is one of the largest recipients of humanitarian aid from the European Union, EU officials said on August 27, one day after saying it was appalled by a new decree issued by the Taliban-led government further restricting the lives of women. The European Union this year has
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 27, 2024 ISLAMABAD — A Taliban-controlled state broadcaster in Afghanistan silenced a female journalist and her image during a live media event Tuesday, apparently in compliance with the radical rulers’ recently enacted morality law that bans women from speaking or showing their faces in public. Officials of the de facto Taliban
DPA: The Taliban government in Afghanistan has prohibited mixed martial arts (MMA), citing concerns over violence and the risk of death, an official told TOLOnews on Tuesday. Ahmadullah Wasiq, head of the Physical Education and Sports Department, said the ban, enforced by the country’s morality police, was due to the sport’s violent nature. Click here
Afghanistan International: Sources have informed Afghanistan International of two confirmed cases of Mpox in Afghanistan. According to these sources, the individuals infected with Mpox are two children, one from Paktia and the other from the Farza district of Kabul, and they are currently being treated at the Child Health Hospital. Taliban officials have not yet
By Abubakar Siddique and Satar Furogh Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 26, 2024 The harrowing events of August 26, 2021, are seared into Shafiullah Samsor’s memory. Twenty-two years old at the time, Samsor was among the thousands of desperate Afghans who had amassed outside Kabul airport hoping to be airlifted from the country by the