8am: Mawlawi Abdul Ghani Haqbeen, Director of Counter-Terrorism of Spin Boldak Security Command in Spin-Boldak, Qandahar, and a close associate of Mawlawi Mohammad Yosuf, the former governor of Qandahar and current acting governor of Balkh province, was released on Thursday, May 4. Haqbeen, due to his familial relationship with the former governor of Qandahar, was
CBS News: “We have to serve the families of the Taliban police commanders, governors and other people who they ask us to serve specifically,” one aid worker at UNHCR told CBS News on the condition of anonymity. “Once a Taliban governor told one of our subcontracted aid agencies that 15% of the aid must go
Al Jazeera: The head of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has decried a lack of transparency from United States agencies that he said has made it impossible to determine if aid allocated to the people of Afghanistan is instead “currently funding the Taliban”. Sopko also accused the Taliban of diverting funds away
8am: The inhabitants of Nimroz asserted that, under the vigilant observation of the Taliban, thousands of kilograms of drugs are smuggled out of the province daily to neighboring countries, particularly Iran. They alleged that Toyota vehicles and catapults are utilized to transport tens of kilograms of opium across the Iranian border. The Taliban do not
8am: Sources spoke to Hasht-e Subh on Monday, April 17, stating that the incident occurred in the areas of Gul-chah and Chah-Takhta in the Kushk Robat Sangi and Gholran districts of Herat province. According to the sources, nearly 30 armed militants from the Taliban governor’s associates launched a nighttime attack on the shepherd and his
GCR: A US military contractor was sentenced this week to three years and 10 months in prison for accepting bribes from an Afghan contractor. Orlando Clark, 57, of Smyrna in Georgia, was deployed to Afghanistan to evaluate bids for US-funded reconstruction contracts in 2011 and 2012. The Department of Justice said Clark and co-conspirator Todd
8am: According to reliable sources in Nimruz province, the Taliban has given smugglers of opium in this province 10 months to sell and export their opium from Afghanistan without paying any sales tax or customs duty. On Friday sources reported that, in addition to the 10-month deadline, the Taliban has also exempted drug smugglers in
Akmal Dawi VOA News March 22, 2023 In a mansion in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif that was recently profiled on YouTube, all the windows and doors are bulletproof — a testament to the former residents’ security fears in a country where tens of thousands of people were killed each year in a war that
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 20, 2023 Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader in Afghanistan, has told Afghan officials to replace any relatives they have hired for government positions and avoid hiring relatives moving forward. Allegations have emerged that some Taliban officials have placed their sons in government positions they are not qualified for. Afghanistan is
8am: On Saturday, reliable sources said that Khan Mohammad, one of the people close to the Taliban in Shaikh Ali district of Dar-e-Ghorband in Parwan province, collected aid from the World Food Organization (WFP) for 80 families in need, and is going to spend them on the construction of a mosque in that district. “Khan