By Farangis Najibullah RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service December 28, 2021 Abdul Kabir Wakil Khan traveled from Kazakhstan to the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif in July to help his family members — all ethnic Kazakhs — relocate to their ancestral homeland. Instead, Wakil Khan became stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in the war-torn country
Tolo News: In the past few days, a video showing a military officer of the former government who was arrested being tortured by two men has sparked sharp reactions from social media users. A large number of people on social media platforms have said such actions are clearly in contradiction to the general amnesty
VOA News December 28, 2021 The Taliban on Tuesday released a prominent Afghan TV station owner who was detained for two days, according to the independent media monitoring group Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC). The Taliban did not say why Mohammad Arif Noori, the founder and owner of Noorin TV, was detained. AFJC in a statement
8am: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s cabinet meeting has appointed Mullah Baradar Akhund as head of the High Commission for Disasters Management. The cabinet meeting of the (IEA) ordered the establishment of a High Commission for Natural Disasters, headed by Mullah Baradar, the Taliban’s first deputy prime minister on (Monday, December 27th). The High Commission
8am: Sources in Badakhshan’s Faizabad city reported an armed clash in the provincial capital. According to locals, the clash lasted for about an hour among Taliban forces in and around Faizabad’s first district. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 27, 2021 Aref Nouri, the head of Afghanistan’s private Nourin television network, has been arrested by the Taliban authorities for unspecified reasons. Nouri’s son, Roman Nouri, told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on December 27 that Taliban security forces arrived at the family’s home in Kabul the day earlier and took his father
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said the number of patients diagnosed with cancer has increased in state hospitals, saying that 13,500 patients diagnosed with cancer have been recorded since the beginning of the 1400 solar year. According to health officials, health care services are deteriorating every day as state hospitals face the
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani government minister Monday criticized neighboring Afghanistan’s ruling Islamist Taliban for placing curbs on women, denouncing the curbs as “retrogressive thinking” and as posing threat to his country. Information Minister Fawad Hussain, while speaking to an Islamabad gathering, described the new Taliban government in Kabul as an “extremist regime.” “We want to fully