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UN Mission Says Taliban Putting Afghan Women In Prison For Protection From Violence
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 14, 2023 The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says de facto Taliban governing officials have admitted to sending women to prison as a means of protecting them from gender-based violence. In a report published on December 14, the UN mission said the Taliban has eliminated the country’s 23 state protection
Pakistan extends deadline for Afghans awaiting third-country resettlement
Al Jazeera: The Pakistani government has announced that undocumented Afghans awaiting paperwork to resettle to a third country will be allowed to stay in Pakistan for two more months. The extension of the deadline on Wednesday from the end of this year to February 29 comes amid Pakistan’s drive to expel more than one million
Ghazni in the Dark: Residents Endure Four Days Without Electricity, Blame Taliban Negligence
8am: Residents in Ghazni report that for the past four days, the entire province has been without electricity due to an unknown disruption in the power supply. According to them, the closure of some shops and production companies has also occurred due to the lack of electricity in the province. The residents of Ghazni accuse
Tolo News in Dari – December 14, 2023
Pakistan punishes Kabul with Sirajuddin Haqqani ‘Disclosure’
Khaama: Pakistan has let out its worst-kept secret that the top mujahideen personnel of its anti-Russian and, later, anti-US campaigns in Afghanistan, some of whom are Taliban now in power, carried the privileged ‘green’ Pakistani passports. As for Haqqani, records say that the Haqqani clan, headed by Jalaluddin, a warlord hailing from Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province,
Pakistan Presses Afghan Taliban To Extradite Terror Attack Planners
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 14, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan urged Afghanistan’s Taliban government Thursday to take decisive action against “terrorist entities” on its soil and extradite fugitive militant leaders allegedly responsible for plotting this week’s deadly assault on a Pakistani military base. “We have noted the statement by the Afghan interim government that it will
Pakistan Seeks US Help Against Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan
VOA News Akmal Dawi December 13, 2023 Pakistan’s army chief is in Washington this week seeking U.S. assistance against what Islamabad alleges are terrorist havens in neighboring Afghanistan. General Asim Munir is trying to convince U.S. security and defense officials that militant groups such as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State’s Khorasan offshoot (IS-K) pose
Media Watchdogs Criticize Taliban Over Arrests Of Afghan Journalists
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 13, 2023 Afghan and international media watchdogs have condemned Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers for handing down a one-year sentence to journalist Sultan Ali Jawadi on unspecified charges and called for his immediate release, along with the freeing of another recently detained media member. In a December 12 statement, the Afghanistan
Taliban Governance in Samangan Province: Employees Hired Through Bribery Practices
8am: Some residents of Samangan province claim that the local Taliban are engaging in corrupt practices by accepting bribes in exchange for employment in specialized institutions. Sources indicate that the Taliban, who control the Directorate of Public Health in Samangan province, have targeted 315 positions in various medical and service sectors, with local officials of