8am: In an interview with Al Jazeera news channel, the Taliban acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani said that if the United States did not recognize them, they would continue to threaten the US. Haqqani said, “By refusing to recognize the Taliban, the US is keeping the doors of hostility against the Afghan people wide open.” Click
8am: Fariba, a 38-year-old woman from Farah province in western Afghanistan, told Hasht-e Subh that she had to sell her two young daughters for 60,000 afghanis to save her two sons. The lady’s husband is addicted to drugs. Fariba spends the winter with her children in a rented house in the sixth district of Farah
Tolo News: Two days after the complaint of Iran’s foreign ministry saying that Iran did not receive its share of water from Helmand River last year, officials from the Afghan Ministry of Energy and Water said Iran will receive its share based on the water treaty signed by the two countries in 1973. According to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 26, 2022 Western diplomats said they linked humanitarian aid to an improvement in human rights in Afghanistan during meetings with a Taliban delegation in Norway. The 15-member delegation held talks behind closed doors with several Western diplomats on January 25, the final day of the Taliban’s first official trip to
Akmal Dawi VOA News January 25, 2022 Diplomats of the former Afghan government who have held on to their jobs in the U.S. are grappling with a new problem: their official bank accounts have been suspended. Two senior Afghan diplomats, who did not want to be named because the issue is under discussion with U.S.
8am: Local sources in the Khost district of Baghlan province report the end of the clashes among the Taliban and the National Resistance Front (NRF) in the Charkh-e-Falak village of Khost Farang district of the province. The Taliban are arresting and harassing locals on charges of collaborating with the Resistance Front, the source claims. Click
NYT: Commandos who played a key role in helping American forces are waiting for visas in the United Arab Emirates, and are among the last of the evacuated Afghans to get a chance to reach the United States. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Sources in Herat confirm that Habib-ur-Rahman Malikzada, the former police chief of Taywarah district in Ghor province, was assassinated in Herat city. Malikzada had earlier fought against the Taliban for several years in the Tywarah district of Ghor province and lived in Herat after the country fell to the Taliban. Click here to read