By Ron Synovitz RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 19, 2021 Like hundreds of families in Ghor Province who once survived on payments from Afghanistan’s former government, 14-year-old Ahmad Zia and his relatives have been devastated by the Taliban’s seizure of power. The men in Ahmad Zia’s extended family were members of an ethnic-Tajik Popular Uprising Force that
Farangis Najibullah Mumin Ahmad Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 13, 2021 Anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmad Masud briefly visited Dushanbe for Afghan peace talks — sponsored by Tajikistan and Pakistan — but Taliban representatives failed to attend, sources close to the Tajik government told RFE/RL. Three sources told RFE/RL that Masud’s trip to Dushanbe took place
The Taliban court gave 2000 Hazara/Shiite families, in the fifth district of Mazar city in Balkh province three days to evacuate their homes.https://t.co/ej4LbPgIYr — Natiq Malikzada (@natiqmalikzada) October 9, 2021
8am: In response to the suicide attack, Afghan civilians have criticized the Taliban for failing to provide security, saying that although the Taliban had assured the people that they would bring security, they have not fulfilled their promises. Click here to read more (external link).
Dozens of people have disappeared in #Panjshir since #Taliban invasion . their bodies are now being found in mass graves. This is 4th mass grave found ; 3 other Graves have already been discovered in Dashtak, Rokha and Anaba districts of Panjshir.@hrw @UN @antonioguterres pic.twitter.com/OWPp9wv2dw — Nilofar Ayoubi (@NilofarAyoubi) October 9, 2021
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 8, 2021 A suicide blast inside a Shi’ite mosque in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz has reportedly killed and wounded at least 100 people in the bloodiest attack since the Taliban took control of most of the country in August. In a tweet, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Gulamaiz Sharifi Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 6, 2021 Jamilah and her six children live out in the open, exposed to the elements, with little food or water. The 45-year-old was forced by armed Taliban militants to leave her mud-brick home in a remote village in central Afghanistan in late September. Her family
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 6, 2021 Sikhs in Kabul say more than a dozen armed men attacked and briefly occupied a Sikh temple in the Kart-e Parwan district of the Afghan capital on October 5, tying up the guards and destroying security cameras. There were no major injuries reported. The leader of the temple, Gurnam,
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 5, 2021 ISLAMABAD — The international rights advocacy group Amnesty International has accused Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban of unlawfully killing 13 members of the ethnic Hazara minority community on August 30, two weeks after the Islamist group seized control of the war-ravaged country. Eleven surrendering troops from the ousted Afghan government and
Middle East Reports: “‘Austria’s greatest achievement,’ an old joke goes, “is convincing the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German.” Likewise, credit must go to the Pashtun (Awghan) politicians who convinced gullible foreigners and “experts” that “Afghanistan” has always existed within its present boundaries and Pashtuns are the majority population. Therefore, they