Pakistan Observer: Khalilzad told TRT World this week that while the [Taliban] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) was in his opinion making some serious mistakes, the only way to solve the issues was for all people in Afghanistan to broadly reach an agreement on a formula. Click here to read more (external link).
The Guardian (UK): The review finds the sheer scale of the aid resources funnelled through central state institutions was distorting. The Afghan state spent approximately $11bn each year, but raised only $2.5bn of its own resources, the report finds. Echoing previous studies it suggests it would have taken 35 years for the state to become
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 24, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday nominated the former head of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, the country’s main intelligence agency, as head of the powerful military amid deepening political turmoil in the country. Officials said Sharif chaired a meeting of his cabinet to pick General Asim Munir
8am: Sources talking to Hasht-e Subh said that around 5:00 pm on Thursday, November 24, armed men attacked the Taliban outpost in the Chaharbagh Firuzeh area, in the Anjil district of Herat province. Sources added that the conflict between the two sides lasted less than 10 minutes, as a result of which four Taliban forces
Tolo News: Sellers of mobile phone SIM cards in Uruzgan are forbidden from selling the cards to women. Officials of the communication and information technology department in Uruzgan said that until the department creates a special SIM card sales section for women, nobody is allowed to sell SIM cards to women. Click here to read
8am: The Taliban arrested him on Tuesday night, November 22, in Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, and transferred him to Kabul. His name is Abdul Karim, a national security officer of the former government, and he is a resident of Tekli Khaneh, the third district of Maimana city. This is not the first case
The Afghan actor Ali Danish Bakhtyari, who played the role of an orphan in the 2007 film “The Kite Runner,” has fled the Taliban rule in his home country twice: first in the late 1990s, and then in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Keith Kocinski has the story from
AP: A local court in the Netherlands ruled on Wednesday that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, and ordered the state to pay financial compensation to the victims. Click here to read more (external link).
Akmal Dawi VOA News November 22, 2022 The explosion at Kaaj educational center in Kabul was so powerful that it lifted 17-year-old Fatima Amiri off the ground before thrusting her slim body several meters away. “I did not faint,” Amiri told VOA over the phone from her home in Kabul. “I ran to a nearby