8am: A reliable source in the Taliban-run Public Health Department in Kandahar reported this order was verbally communicated to the employees on Sunday. The Taliban have already banned women from working with national or international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama: Since August 2021, China has increased its diplomatic relations and economic investments with Afghanistan’s de facto government. In the recent past, Islamic State-Khorasan and other terror outlets in Afghanistan have targeted these significant investments. Sources reported that an attack on Chinese projects is considered a kind of retaliation for the cruel behaviour of the
Khaama: United States Former President Donald Trump criticized American forces’ hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and said ‘Bagram Airfield’ has a strategic location to monitor China from a closer range. Bagram Airbase is located some 11 kilometers in southwest of Charikar, the provincial capital of Parwan province, which accommodated American forces until 2020. Click here to
8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh that on Monday, January 30, Abdul Matin Saeed, the district governor of the Taliban for Kohistan’s first district, ordered butchers to pay 2,000 AFG for the slaughter of each cow. According to sources, Saeed told the butchers to increase the price of each KG of meat by 50 AFG in
By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal January 23, 2023 At least 44 people have been killed and 157 wounded in an attack witnesses said was a suicide bombing inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Most of the dead were police officers, according to a spokesman for a Peshawar hospital where victims of the attack
Tolo News: Female students in grade 6-12 still face an uncertain future as Sunday marks 500 days that schools have been closed for girls in those grades. The students said the closed schools have faced them with psychological problems and mental pressure. Click here to read more (external link). Related Girls React to Ban on
PTI: Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghanistan President who fled the country when the Taliban grabbed power in Kabul, was “a total fraud” solely focused on his own desire to stay in power and a big hurdle in any peace talks, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Click here to read more (external
8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh that the Taliban arrested these people on Saturday in Tankhawi village of Dara district, and no specifics were available on their whereabouts. These people have been arrested on suspicion of possessing firearms. It is worth noting that civilian detention by the Taliban in Panjshir has increased again. Click here to