By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 1, 2022 Several dozen Afghans, mostly women, have protested after a suicide bombing killed dozens of mostly female students preparing for university entrance exams in Kabul. Police have put the death toll in the September 30 attack at “at least 20 people,” while the United Nations told the AFP news agency
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 30, 2022 A suicide bombing struck an education center in a predominantly Shi’ite neighborhood of the Afghan capital on September 30, killing 19 people and wounding 27, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief said. The explosion inside the center in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood populated by Hazaras, a mostly Shi’ite ethnic
8am: In continuation of the Taliban’s recent anti-Persian initiatives, the group has removed the word “Danishgah = University” from the Signboard of Herat University in Herat province. On Wednesday, September 28, local sources talking to Hasht-e Subh said that the Taliban group has installed a new signboard with the Pashtu version of “Herat Pohantoon =
SATP: The Hazaras suffer from a double persecution, first on the ground of ethnic difference with the majority Pashtun tribes, and second, because they follow the Shia sect of Islam in a Sunni majority country. The Hazara community is Afghanistan’s third largest ethnic group. Their distinct features make them easy prey for Sunni hardliners, both
Monica Verma via Firstpost: If they can’t come back to India which was once the land of their ancestors, then where do they go? The fact that the Sikhs weren’t allowed to carry their scriptures by the current Taliban government to India and the fact that Sikhs will soon be an extinct minority in Afghanistan
8am: The Taliban launched an operation against the National Resistance Front (NRF) forces in the Paryan district of Panjshir province, burning the property of civilians and harassing local people. At the same time as these clashes started, Taliban fighters have beaten up local residents and set people’s properties on fire, according to sources. Click here
8am: In the past few months, the Taliban have continued to remove Farsi/Persian words and terminologies from the boards of government institutions, and have also changed the boards of the appeal courts of Ghor and Bamyan provinces. This is even though the absolute majority of the residents of these two provinces speak Farsi/Persian. At that
8am: Local sources in Takhar report that the Taliban in this province collect tithes from farmers’ crops several times. On Thursday, September 22, a source said, quoting the farmers of some districts in this province, that the Taliban has not defined any mechanism for tithes collection, but there are local Taliban commanders who collect tithes
8am: Sources on Tuesday, September 20, speaking to Hasht-e Subh said that in a new move, the Taliban group removed the Persian signs of the departments of management, publications, information technology, procurement management, and several other departments and replaced them with Pashto and English signs. This is while 90% of the visitors to government offices
8am: In a house-to-house search operation in Dara Abdullah Khel, Panjshir on Friday, the Taliban rebels seriously tortured Mawlawi Abdul Sami Muslih, the imam of Mian Deh village along with one of the youths of this area, sources said. This incident occurred when the detention of boys under age and elders was criticized by Mawlawi