Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 25, 2021 At least one person was killed and seven others wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar that hit a Taliban convoy on September 25, local officials said. The blast occurred in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, a provincial Taliban spokesman told the dpa news
8am: Indigenous Hazaras are being forced to migrate from some villages in the Gizab region of Daikundi province. According to locals, in the first phase on Friday, about 400 families from the Gibab’s Kindir village were forced to flee to neighbouring villages or parts of Kandahar province… According to locals in Daikundi’s Gizab, the Kuchis
The American Prospect: Ghani, during his nearly seven years in power, found ways to enrich his brother, his brother-in-law, and other members of his inner circle. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service September 24, 2021 Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has called on the Taliban to form an inclusive government in neighboring Afghanistan with the participation of all political and ethnic groups in order to allay tensions in the war-torn country. In a prerecorded video message to the UN General Assembly in New York on
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 24, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan says it has conveyed to the United States that while Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers should be held to their commitments, the world has “a moral obligation” to collectively work to help the Afghan people deal with a severe humanitarian and economic crisis in the war-ravaged country. Foreign
Al Jazeera: A writer and reporter who has spent several years covering the Taliban said the divisions are the result of a political-military divide. The hardliners, he said, “feel that they are owed things for 20 years of fighting”. Click here to read more (external link).
AP: One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. Click here to read more (external link).
#BREAKING: Hazara leader, Mohammad Mohaqiq says, Taliban had forced Hazaras to leave their home in Daikundi. "I was informed that the Taliban had deployed their forces into the Kandir area, ousted Hazaras from their fertile lands & then distributed the lands to their supporters. — Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) September 23, 2021 A letter from the