Farkhunda Paimani Roshan Noorzai VOA News December 15, 2023 WASHINGTON — Edris Niazi had “a normal life,” back in Kabul, working as a government employee, but his life “turned upside down” after the Taliban seized power in 2021. Niazi, 32, is now working as a welder in Turkey’s Kayseri province with “no future,” as he fears
Tolo News: A major gathering was held in capital Kabul on Friday in support of the people of Palestine and to condemn the Israeli attack on Gaza. The participants of the rally called for an “immediate” halt to Israel’s attack on Gaza and criticized the “silence of the Islamic countries” regarding the issue of Palestine.
Ariana: There is a crisis in relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to preclude further escalation including a direct conflict, Islamabad and Kabul should consider negotiating an agreement, Zalmay Khalilzad, former US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, said on Friday. He added that the Doha agreement did not deal directly with the challenge of terror
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
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
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
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,
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