Ariana: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a report this week in which it stated the Pentagon made $232 million in questionable salary payments to the former government of Afghanistan’s defense ministry personnel for fiscal year 2019 to May 2020. SIGAR found that during this period, the US Defense Department (DoD) disbursed
Tolo News: The US State Department in its annual report which was published on Monday, included Afghanistan on the list of countries engaged in a “policy or pattern” of human trafficking and forced labor or whose security forces or government-backed armed groups recruit or use child soldiers. According to the report, the current government of
8am: Hasht-e Subh has gained access to information which indicate that Abdul Manan Omari, the Taliban’s Public Works Minister, has used more than one million dollars of the revenues of the Railway Department and a generator for financing his personal investment objectives. Several sources confirm that Abdul Manan Omari, the Taliban’s Public Works Minister and
Akmal Dawi VOA News July 6, 2022 The Taliban say they will not hold former Afghan officials accountable for the massive corruption that derailed donor-funded development projects and contributed to the collapse of the former Afghan Republic. “Those who nurtured and enriched themselves during the previous invasion and from the U.S.’s system own their properties
8am: Local sources in Logar province have reported that a Taliban member has used military helicopter to transport his newlywed bride from Logar province to Khost. This Taliban member, whose identity has not yet been revealed, apparently has got married in Logar province and has taken his wife to Khost province, using the ANA’s leftover
8am: During the house-to-house search operations, the Taliban have taken away the properties of civilians, especially their vehicles, and named them as war booty, sources reported Saturday. According to the sources, the families living in Balkhab had hidden their cars and motorcycles in the village of Lalander and Sorkhak Balaq when they fled from the
NBC News: John Sopko, who runs the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said last week that two Biden administration agencies, the State Department and USAID, had told their staffers not to provide information or communicate with SIGAR, which is responsible for tracking waste and corruption. Click here to read more
PlaytheGame: The new Taliban regime in Afghanistan has held power over the country’s sports sector since August 2021. But even though the regime almost immediately violated the Olympic Charter by declaring a ban on women’s sport, the Taliban-controlled National Olympic Committee of Afghanistan is still funded by money from the IOC’s Olympic Solidarity programme. According
8am: Local sources in Maidan Wardak province have confirmed that the Taliban group has seized the aid package and has distributed it to its members, which was the rights of Bamiyan residents. According to reliable sources, more than 100 Taliban members, who are the main residents of Maidan Wardak and whose duties are in Bamiyan
8am: Ghazni is one of the provinces where international aid has flowed during the past recent months, but the Taliban have discriminately prevented it from being distributed and granted to deserving segment of the society. According to reports, no aid has been distributed in the four districts of Ghazni province where Hazara people live. This