Washington Examiner: American taxpayers have spent more than $1 billion in Afghanistan since the botched withdrawal, yet the Biden administration is refusing to give an accounting of the funds to a government watchdog. Specifically, SIGAR said it wanted information on the collapse of the Afghan government, risks to the population, U.S. compliance on prohibiting the
8am: Local sources from Maidan Wardak province report the third marriage of Mawlawi Hafiz Mohammad Amin Omari, the Taliban’s governor for this province, with a young girl. According to sources, yesterday, November 9,, this wedding ceremony was held in Kabul. According to local sources, this Taliban official married a young girl as his third wife
HRW: Two years ago today, former Tolo News TV presenter Yama Siawash was killed in a car bombing on November 7, 2020, moments after he climbed into a government-owned vehicle in Kabul. Despite the high-profile nature of the attack, the former Afghan government failed to carry out a thorough investigation or prosecute anyone for the
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A U.S. government agency Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking it from fully assessing about $1.1 billion in U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in its quarterly report that
8am: After taking over Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban became the country’s sole ruling force in terms of political and social power. As a result, they began to do things that had previously only occurred in their imaginations. The commanders of this group have chosen beautiful young women and girls for marriage under
8am: Sources on Saturday, October 29, said that local Taliban authorities smuggle weapons across the border by using some local residents. Based on the information, American weapons, including night vision cameras, rifles, and snipers have a very demanding market in Pakistan, particularly the Pakistani military members prefer these weapons. Click here to read more (external
8am: In a newsletter, the Central Bank of Afghanistan under Taliban control said Wednesday it had received another cash package of 40 million dollars from the international community which was deposited in a commercial bank. Over the past ten days, this is the fourth package of 40 million dollars that reaches Kabul. Other packages worth
8am: In a survey, the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) reports the complaints of people and organizations regarding the intervention of local Taliban members in the aid distribution process. The results of this survey published Tuesday indicate that almost all organizations have deep concern over the issue, saying that the local Taliban members
8am: The name and history of Taliban creation are associated with opium and drug trafficking, along with the implementation of strict and extreme religious practices. This spring, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of this group, issued an order prohibiting the cultivation, production, purchase, and sale of narcotics. But the findings of Hasht-e Subh Daily show
8am: Complaints about overtaxing, overcharging, and extortion of Taliban militants under the name of transportation taxes are raised while there have already been reports about the takeover of citizens’ private businesses by the Taliban, disorder in the transportation sector, and the Taliban’s failure to meet the necessary conditions for registering cars and drivers on the