By Ron Synovitz RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January Like millions of other impoverished Afghans, day laborer Omaruddin and his family are facing starvation as the country’s economic crisis deepens under Taliban rule. Omaruddin, a Kabul resident, has registered over 20 times with the Taliban regime in the hope of receiving wheat that was donated as humanitarian aid
Al Jazeera: Community leaders estimate just 140 Sikhs remain in the Taliban-ruled country, mostly in the eastern city of Jalalabad and capital Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: “We are concerned over the ethnic protests that broke out in the north of the country. They were sparked by the arrest of a Taliban field commander, an ethnic Uzbek, on charges of illegal actions. We hope the new authorities will not succumb to provocations staged by destructive elements, which are aimed at
Tolo News: Makhdoom Alam, a local commander of the Islamic Emirate who was detained by the government, has been brought to Kabul, officials said. Commander Makhdoom Alam, who was based in Faryab province, was arrested last Thursday in Balkh. The arrest of the commander sparked widespread demonstrations by residents in Maimana, Faryab’s provincial capital. Click here
WSJ: Afghanistan’s Taliban are battling a rebellion by ethnic minority fighters in their own ranks in the country’s north, a sign that ties are fraying within the alliance built by the Islamist group that seized control of the country in August. Some Uzbeks who joined the Taliban, which is dominated by Pashtuns from the country’s
8am: Sources in Maimana confirmed that a civilian named Parwiz was killed and a woman was wounded during the clash among Taliban members in the city. Family members of the slain man stated that Parwiz has been killed by Pashtun Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Taliban's most senior Uzbek commander Makhdoom Alam has been arrested in Mazar-e-Sharif Wednesday based on an order by Mullah Fazel, Taliban's deputy defense minister.Following his arrest, hundreds of disgruntled people took to the streets of Faryab's Maimana city in protest. pic.twitter.com/aA9pw14Wq6 — Afghanistan Times (@AfghanistanTime) January 13, 2022 Taliban fighters of the Uzbek nation took
MEReports: Is it a clash between Pashtun tribal culture and Farsiwan (Tajiks, Turks, Hazaras, etc.)? To some degree it is: Farsiwan culture is sophisticated and extended from Iraq and Anatolia to India and over the Oxus into Central Asia and Inner Asia. Persian culture produced hundreds of thousands of titles of scientific and literary import;
8am: Since August 15, Taliban officials from the province’s agriculture and livestock department began collecting tithes from people in Bamiyan. In the process, the Taliban took one-tenth of every crop and animal of the peasants. Click here to read more (external link).
By Farangis Najibullah RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service December 28, 2021 Abdul Kabir Wakil Khan traveled from Kazakhstan to the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif in July to help his family members — all ethnic Kazakhs — relocate to their ancestral homeland. Instead, Wakil Khan became stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in the war-torn country