Ayaz Gul VOA News August 18, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The World Health Organization has warned that a lack of funding and resources to support Afghanistan’s health care system threatens millions of lives in a country ravaged by decades of instability and natural disasters. Through its new alert launched Friday, the WHO urged the global community to
8am: In a distressing incident that sheds light on the growing assertiveness of the Taliban in various regions, reports from Ghor province indicate that Taliban fighters compelled a man to divorce his wife under duress, employing the threat of arms. These developments unfold against a backdrop of increasing reports where Taliban commanders and fighters have
Shapoor Saber Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 17, 2023 Soon after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban outlawed music and publicly beat and humiliated musicians. Now the militant group is intensifying its clampdown on Afghans playing and listening to music, which it considers un-Islamic. In the western city of Herat, members of the Taliban’s notorious
Reuters: “Although we continue to engage with government ministries, donors, and organisations to find alternative sustainable support mechanisms for the hospital sector, the phase-out of the Hospital Program is expected to happen tentatively at the end of August,” Diogo Alcantara, ICRC’s spokesperson for Afghanistan, told Reuters on Thursday. “The ICRC does not have the mandate
AP: Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press that if women’s faces are visible in public there is a possibility of fitna, or falling into sin. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban’s Economy, traveled to Turkey on August 7th, leading a delegation. This was his first official trip abroad in his current position, with his previous trip being to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on May 16, 2022. During his visit to Abu Dhabi, he
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 16, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban on Wednesday banned all political parties in Afghanistan, stating that such activities are against Islamic law, or Sharia. The move comes a day after the de facto Afghan leaders marked the second anniversary of returning to power in Kabul. Abdul Hakim Sharaee, the Taliban minister
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 16, 2023 International press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for the release of nine Afghan journalists arbitrarily arrested by Taliban security forces this month. Antoine Bernard, RSF’s director of advocacy and assistance, said on August 16 that RSF wants the “unconditional release” of all nine Afghan journalists. “The
VOA News Aline Barros August 16, 2023 ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON — Sitting on the carpet in a small, third-floor apartment of a crowded building on the edge of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, six Afghan men sip traditional green tea as they scroll through messages and videos on their phones. All of them are anxiously awaiting the same thing