8am: Reliable local sources in Daikundi province report that during the course fo last two days, the Taliban have arrested six people from “Watameh” village of Khidir district of this province on the allegation of possessing weapons and opposing the Taliban group. On Sunday, November 27, the sources, speaking to Hasht-e Subh said that the
8am: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has described the Taliban’s attack on Siwak-Shiber village in the vicinity of Nili city, Daikundi province as shocking and sad. Taliban fighters, with the cooperation of their local supporters, attacked and killed two families in Siwak-Shiber area in the center of Daikundi province last Thursday. Click
8am: NRF spokesperson, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, made the claim in a tweet on Thursday (November 24th). “The Taliban have started distributing lands along the Qosh Tepa irrigation canal to the families of terrorists from Waziristan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and other non-native peoples,” Ahmadi detailed. Click here to read more (external link).
RFE/RL spoke to shopkeeper Charin Singh, who is believed to be the only Sikh remaining in the Afghan city of Jalalabad and the wider Nangharhar Province. He says attacks by militants have driven his family and other members of the Sikh community abroad.
8am: According to the author of the anti-corruption book, “Afghan governments [Karzai and Ghani periods] have depended on the steady flow of corruption income.” The Taliban regime in Afghanistan consumes all government facilities for the expense of personal power. There is no service and no response to people. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 17, 2022 The lives lost when a bomb tore through the Kaaj Higher Education Center in Kabul, killing scores of students and educators, can never be replaced. But the victims’ desire for learning lives on thanks to book drives to establish libraries in their honor. Fifty-eight people were killed and 126
8am: Office of the Taliban’s PM wrote in a newsletter on Tuesday, November 15, that the head of the office, Mullah Hassan Akhund, “has appreciated the achievements of the nomads during the Jihad.” He said that the nomads play an important role in strengthening the economy of Afghanistan and promised to solve their problems through
Aamaj: Head of people’s unity party, Mohammad Mohaqiq, said that the residents of 17 villages have been evicted by Taliban in Ghor and Daykundi provinces. Before that people were evicted in Ghazni and Takhar by nomads while Taliban supported them. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Residents of Ghazni’s Malistan district raised this request on Tuesday (November 8th) after the district governor of the Taliban admitted that they killed Mohammad Zaman Wakili, a student of a madrassa, based on an allegedly false report. A number of residents of Malistan district and the family members of the victim, in a meeting
albawaba: The Taliban’s belief in Pashtun supremacy in Afghanistan and their disdain for practitioners of Shi’a Islam, whom they consider apostates, places Hazaras at critical risk of future ethnically motivated mass killings. The Taliban famously have a saying: ‘Tajiks to Tajikistan, Uzbeks to Uzbekistan, and Hazaras to goristan’ (cemetery in Pashto). This attitude has prevailed