Sarah Zaman VOA News December 5, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A roadside blast caused by a remote-controlled improvised explosive device, or IED, wounded seven people Tuesday, including four children in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to area police, a preliminary investigation of the site found that 4 kilograms of explosives were
VOA News December 5, 2023 The leader of a Pakistan ethnic group has been detained after authorities said armed men in his vehicle opened fire on police. Raja Athar Abbas, the deputy commissioner of the northcentral city of Chaman, which sits on the border with Afghanistan, said that Manzoor Pashteen was arrested in connection with
8am: In the last two years, the Taliban have consistently asserted the establishment of comprehensive security across Afghanistan. Despite this claim, the group has not only carried out targeted killings of former government security forces and political opponents but has also orchestrated numerous attacks against Hazara Shia positions, resulting in hundreds of casualties. Recently, Herat
The Independent (UK): Ex-warlords, resistance fighters, diplomats and politicians gather together united by a single cause: how to oust the ultra-fundamentalist group that threatens regional stability and treats women as a subservient class. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan Opposition Leaders Meet for 2nd Day in Vienna The Vienna Conference: Amplifying Anti-Taliban
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 4, 2023 Iran has banned millions of Afghan refugees and migrants in the country from living in, traveling to, or seeking employment in just over half of the country’s 31 provinces. On December 3, Hamzeh Soleimani, the director-general of citizenship and foreign nationals affairs of the western Kermanshah Province, confirmed the
Khaama: The Secretary-General of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters has rejected the Taliban’s claim about a reduction in poppy cultivation, stating that the statistics indicate an increase in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. Following the dissemination of this report and the Taliban’s claim of a significant reduction in poppy cultivation, Iranian authorities have repeatedly rejected this claim.
8am: According to local sources speaking to Hasht-e Subh Daily on Monday, December 4th, one day after the visit of Fasehuddin Fetrat, the Taliban’s Military Command Chief, to Badakhshan, houses in the city are being inspected under his orders. Unpleasant and insulting confrontations with residents have been reported in some instances. The initiative is said
8am: Karzai’s statement that “the world should not remove the Taliban from power by force” has been interpreted as support for the Taliban… The history of the government under the leadership of Karzai in dealing with the Taliban and their prisoners has strengthened the suspicion that Karzai’s recent statements are aimed at normalizing the Taliban