Amnesty International: “The Office of the Prosecutor must reconsider its overtly selective approach which deprioritised investigations against powerful actors, including the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and members of the Unites States military and CIA, to ensure justice to all victims of the Afghan conflict.” Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 2, 2022 An explosion hit a bus carrying Taliban administration employees in Kabul early on November 2, police said, wounding seven people. “Due to a blast on a minibus from the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, seven have been injured,” said Khalid Zadran, Kabul’s police spokesman. Zadran said the blast
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A U.S. government agency Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking it from fully assessing about $1.1 billion in U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in its quarterly report that
8am: After taking over Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban became the country’s sole ruling force in terms of political and social power. As a result, they began to do things that had previously only occurred in their imaginations. The commanders of this group have chosen beautiful young women and girls for marriage under
Khaama: The newly established Afghanistan Justice and Freedom party, which is led by Sarwar Danesh, the former vice president, called for a referendum on the federal system as a meaningful way for the country to climb out of its current crisis. According to the newly formed party, attempting to contrast the “modern” federal system with
HSToday: When U.S. troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the government, world leaders and others braced themselves for what the future might hold for Afghanistan and its citizens. Many feared the worst, and the Taliban did not disappoint. It claimed to have reformed its ways but, with a long history of
8am: The mainstream media in Afghanistan which had just started to get on its feet was shaken by the disruptions of 2021 – the takeover of the war-ravaged country by the Taliban. A survey conducted by Reporters Without Borders and the Afghan Independent Journalist Association in December 2021 reported the closure of more than 200
Khaama: Despite the Taliban government’s ban on drugs, opium cultivation increased by 32% in Afghanistan in 2022, according to a report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Following the announcement of the poppy cultivation ban in April, the report says that opium prices have skyrocketed. Sales of opium increased Afghan farmers’ income