8am: Khalid Zadran, the spokesperson for the Taliban security forces, announced tonight that an explosion in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul city has resulted in seven casualties and left twenty others injured. The incident, which took place on Tuesday, November 7th, involved a passenger bus, as stated by Zadran in a message posted on X.
8am: There are multiple underlying factors contributing to this mass deportation, some of which are rooted in Afghanistan. Inside Afghanistan, there is a belief that this action is an attempt by the Taliban to alter the country’s demographic landscape by relocating refugees. In private political circles, there are allegations of collusion between the Taliban and
Scroll.in: The predominantly Shi’ite community are reviled by the Sunni Taliban as infidels. Sadiq, an ethnic Hazara, fled Afghanistan last year because he was attacked and beaten by the members of the Taliban regime. Now, the 25-year-old faces expulsion from Pakistan and he fears a return to his home country could amount to a death
The China Project: Facial-recognition analytics that China uses to oppress the marginalized peoples of Xinjiang could soon spread through Central Asia. So far, the 3,000 Uyghurs living in Afghanistan have slipped under the radar of the government’s Islamic fundamentalist gaze. Many of them have lived there peacefully since the 1950s, when they fled religious persecution
8am: Sources from the region stated on Monday evening, October 16th, that the Tajik and Pashtun factions within the Taliban engaged in a confrontation within the security command area of the group in Ghor province. According to the sources, tensions between the Tajik and Pashtun factions escalated from verbal exchanges at the entrance gate of
8am: 130 years ago, on September 25, 1893, Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, the then King of Afghanistan, issued an order to massacre the Hazaras of Uruzgan Province and its suburbs. “When the Hazara tribe’s acts of rebellion, including residents from Daia and Folad, Zawoli, Sultan Ahmad, and other regions, escalated to the point where all
8am: Following the recent killing of two Hazara individuals in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province, the National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan has asserted that, in the past two years, the Taliban have been responsible for the deaths of 17 Hazara residents. The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan
NIKKEI: …Afghan mining ministry lacks the technical and other capacity to manage and oversee such contracts, warning this could lead to a grim outlook of “corruption, mismanagement and environmental disasters. “Taliban factions in Takhar have at times engaged in violent confrontations over control of valuable resources. Media reports said the Taliban leadership last month replaced
8am: Local sources in Bamiyan are reporting that the Taliban have detained 24 residents from one of the villages in the center of this province, based on the claim of ownership by another individual. According to sources, on Wednesday, September 13th, Taliban security forces in Bamiyan detained at least 24 residents of the village of
8am: Sources informed the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Tuesday, 12 September, that Abdullah Sarhadi, the Taliban governor of Bamiyan province, has imprisoned two individuals from the Pashta-e Gharghari village because they did not hand over their land to the Kuchi nomads. This comes after last year when the Taliban’s Conflict Resolution Commission had warned the