Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 24, 2021 The Taliban stunned the world with its rapid military takeover of Afghanistan in August, just as the last foreign troops were leaving the war-torn country. But observers say the militant Islamist group faces a battle to hold on to power as it struggles to transform from
The Diplomat: For a multiethnic and multicultural country like Afghanistan where no particular group enjoys dominance, a political system that embraces diversity and could guarantee political and social pluralism is what the NRF find most fitting. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 15, 2021 Amnesty International says it has documented torture and extrajudicial executions committed by the Taliban as the group seized power in Afghanistan in August. Taliban members have “tortured and killed ethnic and religious minorities, former ANDSF (Afghan National Defense Security Forces) soldiers, and those perceived as government sympathizers in
By Zarif Nazar Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 9, 2021 Taliban fighters have been accused of helping to forcibly evict more than 1,000 people in northern Afghanistan, with the evictions targeting members of the ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen communities. Ethnic Uzbeks and Turkmen allege that Pashtuns seized their homes and land in the
Arab ethnic minority of Afghanistan in Faryab province saying Taliban torturing and accusing them of links with ISIS. An elderly man while cring says the Taliban, hang if you proved we have ties with ISIS. He says Taliban electrified my son. pic.twitter.com/SJSKWZRyMt — Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) December 8, 2021
8am: “Instead of fomenting and pervasive the talks between the majority and the ethnic minority at this time, it would be better to discuss and separate the traitorous minority from the patriotic majority,” Nabil tweeted on Saturday, December 4. Meanwhile, the remarks came as Ashraf Ghani’s former deputy interior minister at the University of Cambridge,
Aamaj: Leader of National Congress Party of Afghansitan, Abdul Latif Pedram, said that sooner or later there will be a new political geography. He tweeted that the history will not forget the people who take risks and struggle for removing class rank in society, especially struggling for obtaining nation’s rights, and democracy. Click here to
Members of Afghanistan’s Hazara community, an ethnic minority made up of mainly Shi’ite Muslims, say they are facing a wave of persecution under the new Taliban regime. Families who fled to Kabul from Daikundi and Uruzgan provinces report that Taliban officials forced them out of their homes in the middle of the night and
8am: Local sources in Takhar province say a Taliban commander has seized people’s lands by force. According to sources, the Taliban commander has usurped the personal property of the people in the Khwaja Bahauddin district of the province. Click here to read more (external link).
BBC: A group of locals in the northern Afghan province of Jawzjan have reportedly been forced to “migrate”. A number of Uzbek / Uzbek and Turkmen residents in Jowzjan’s Qushtepe district say “houses and thousands of acres of land have been confiscated by nomads” and that Taliban officials have “imprisoned protesters”. Click here to read