AP: Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Patients who are suffering from hemophilia disease and their family members held a gathering in capital Kabul to protest lack of sufficient blood factors (proteins in blood that contribute to clotting) in the country as they are facing severe challenges. Some of the patients expressed concerns over the suspension of assistance of the
Michael Hughes: President Joe Biden’s lack of empathy for the people of Afghanistan comes through in vivid detail in a new book by The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer. From annoyance over Hillary Clinton trying to save Afghan women to his disappearance to Camp David when advisers awaited an evacuation order, the book provides a scathing indictment
Tolo News: Saturday, September 9, (18 Sunbula) is the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, Jihadi commander. Ahmad Shah Massoud was killed on this day in an explosion in Khajwa Bahawuddin district of Takhar. The High Council for National Reconciliation’s former chairman Abdullah Abdullah and former president Hamid Karzai issued public messages
8am: Following the Taliban’s coercion of Hazara people to pay reparations to the Kuchis (nomads), residents of three villages in Nawur District, Ghazni Province, are now compelled to pay five million Afghanis each. This decision was made based on the claims of a Kuchi individual who alleges that ten years ago, 230 of his sheep
Ariana: Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) says the closure of Torkham crossing into Pakistan has cost the economy millions of afghanis (AFN) over the past three days. The closure of the border came at a crucial time specifically for exporters of fresh produce, especially fruit. The ACCI said the longer the trucks sit
8am: The Taliban are heavily influenced by Pashtunwali (a Pashtun code of conduct) that considers Pashtuns as the supreme race and women as the property of men, ignoring their rights. They are also greatly influenced by Deobandi, a radical version of political Islam that considers other religions heresy subject to eradication. These two factors hinder
VOA News September 8, 2023 Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday it “has concluded” that Afghanistan’s Taliban is committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution against Afghanistan’s women and girls. Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, it has been widely reported that the group has sought to deny women and