ANI: Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city have compelled the shopkeepers to install their group’s white flag in their shops and buildings. Health clinics and public baths have too been asked to follow the order. The order has been issued by the Taliban officials in PD9 of Kandahar Municipality in a letter to shopkeepers and
8am: A local source in Ghazni province said on Saturday that the Taliban had increased its surveillance over barber shops and hairdressers across the city recently. The source says that on Friday, the Taliban severely beat a gents’ hairdresser in the Khaja Ali area of Ghazni city while shaving the beard of a customer and
AP: There are cemeteries all over Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, many of them filled with the dead from the country’s decades of war. They are incorporated casually into Afghans’ lives. They provide open spaces where children play soccer or cricket or fly kites, where adults hang out, smoking, talking and joking, since there are few public
Ariana: Afghanistan has been ranked last out of 146 countries in the UN World Happiness Report 2022, which was released on Friday. This is the third consecutive year Afghanistan is placed at the very bottom of the world happiness rankings. Click here to read more (external link). Related The report warns that Afghanistan’s numbers might
Ariana: Currently, as many as 95% of the country’s 38 million people don’t have enough to eat or money to buy food, The Associated Press reported. Shelley Thakral, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said that food prices in Afghanistan rose nearly 40% over the last eight months. Click here to read more (external
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique February 11, 2022 Shamalgah was once a bustling agricultural village that housed hundreds of residents of the Bala Bulk district of Afghanistan’s western Farah Province. But their pastoral existence was shattered when fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan National Army placed the community squarely in the line of fire.
NYP: Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group’s spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort by the country’s new rulers to soften their image. Click here to read more (external link).
Aamaj: Sky News Agency reported that a multitude of Hazaras have left Afghanistan after Taliban’s domination. A number of Hazaras who worked with foreign forces in Afghanistan told Sky News that Taliban are doing retaliatory actions, and because of that they are living in hiding. Some of them said that Taliban’s amnesty promise was a
8am: Sources confirm that the Taliban in Badakhshan’s Yawan district fined 73 people who did not attend congregational prayers 500 afghanis. Locals said the incident took place on Friday morning, January 21, at the Dasht-e Soleiman Mosque. Click here to read more (external link).