Ariana: The European Union announced this week that it will provide an additional $26 million for polio vaccines and another $15.6 million for child protection in Afghanistan. According to a statement issued by the EU, the funding for child protection will specifically be aimed at caring for migrant children at risk of violence, exploitation and
8am: Local sources in Logar province have reported that a Taliban member has used military helicopter to transport his newlywed bride from Logar province to Khost. This Taliban member, whose identity has not yet been revealed, apparently has got married in Logar province and has taken his wife to Khost province, using the ANA’s leftover
Michael Hughes: The agenda item during talks between the U.S. and Taliban in Doha this week was widely expected to be about potentially unfreezing Afghan assets for earthquake recovery efforts. Although that topic was discussed, the State Department said a “central focus” of the dialogue was the Taliban’s restrictions on Afghan women. This emphasis was
8am: During the house-to-house search operations, the Taliban have taken away the properties of civilians, especially their vehicles, and named them as war booty, sources reported Saturday. According to the sources, the families living in Balkhab had hidden their cars and motorcycles in the village of Lalander and Sorkhak Balaq when they fled from the
UN: The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard. Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll:
Akmal Dawi VOA News July 2, 2022 With the collapse of the former Afghan republic in August 2021, Azizullah Jahish suffered two losses. The new Taliban leadership fired him from his job as a civil engineer at the Ministry of Urban Development. Around the same time, he was informed that a U.S. Fulbright scholarship he
8am: Sarajul Haq Hakimi, a former soldier, is shot dead by the Taliban rebels in Pul-e- Khumri city, the center of Baghlan province, sources reported Saturday. He was shot while going to the evening prayers in Qol Nawabad area in the second district of Pul-e- Khumri city. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Resolutions from clerics’ gathering at Loya Jirga Hall: Participants pledged allegiance to the Islamic Emirate leader. The international community is called on to release Afghan assets. The participants called the current government ‘legitimate” and called for its recognition. Support announced for decree of Islamic Emirate on drugs. Support given for the Islamic Emirate
Ariana: Many Afghan families would leave their country if secondary girls’ schools do not reopen, Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said on Friday. Hekmatyar, in his Friday sermon, said that a decision should be made regarding the issue of girls’ education at the gathering of religious scholars in Kabul. “What does Islam say? What does our