8am: The Taliban rebels have arrested and severely tortured a young man in Badakhshan province, sources in the province report. Sources reported Saturday that the detainee’s name is Ezatullah and was arrested a few days ago in Shuhada district of this province by the Taliban. According to the sources, the Taliban have tortured him after
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique July 1, 2022 Residents and international human rights watchdogs are criticizing the Taliban for grave rights abuses that have been reported in its military campaign against a dissident commander in a remote part of northern Afghanistan. Civilians in Balkhab, a rural district in the Sar-e Pul Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi July 1, 2022 The Taliban’s supreme leader, Mawlawi Haibuatullah Akhundzada, is addressing a grand meeting in Kabul of some 3,000 male clerics and tribal leaders discussing the running of the country. The June 30-July 2 “grand assembly of ulema,” or religious scholars, is a tightly controlled event where women are banned and
Aamaj: Relatives of the victims said that the incident took place in Char Qala Char Dehe neighborhood in Kabul, last night. They added that Taliban arrested another brother of them, and their father who is suffering from cancer; took them in an unknown whereabouts. They added their situation is not known as well. Click here
Ariana: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey had offered to operate Kabul airport in Afghanistan with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and was awaiting the response of the Islamic Emirate [Taliban] to the proposal. He was speaking at a news conference at the end of a NATO summit in Madrid. Click here
Akmal Dawi VOA News June 30, 2022 For Breshna Salaam, the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan last year meant a return to the same extreme poverty she and her mother had experienced under the Taliban’s first time in control of the country. In 1996, the Taliban fired Salaam’s mother from a public service job,
NBC News: John Sopko, who runs the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said last week that two Biden administration agencies, the State Department and USAID, had told their staffers not to provide information or communicate with SIGAR, which is responsible for tracking waste and corruption. Click here to read more
PlaytheGame: The new Taliban regime in Afghanistan has held power over the country’s sports sector since August 2021. But even though the regime almost immediately violated the Olympic Charter by declaring a ban on women’s sport, the Taliban-controlled National Olympic Committee of Afghanistan is still funded by money from the IOC’s Olympic Solidarity programme. According
8am: Sources in Kabul have confirmed that the Taliban group has arrested Wali Ahmad Sarih, a spokesperson of the former Nangarhar Police Command. The motive behind his arrest is not yet clear, sources said. According to the sources, this is the 10th young man from Andarab who has been detained by the Taliban in Kabul