8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh Sunday that the Taliban fighters have warned the residents of some districts of this province, especially Hesa Awal district, to avoid going out at night. The sources further stated that the rebels have warned the residents of the Sanjan area to turn off the lights at 9:00 pm. Anyone’s house
Tolo News: TOLO news findings show that in the past two months, 27 people have committed suicide in eleven provinces of Afghanistan. According to the findings, the number of girls who committed suicide is more compared to boys. Poverty, economic challenges and family violence are said to be the main reasons for the surge in
8am: Taliban forces in the Jaghuri district of Ghazni province opened fire on a wedding party convoy on Thursday afternoon (July 14th). According to the source, the incident occurred on the outskirts of the district center. Taliban fighters apparently opened fire on the wedding entourage because they were playing music. Traditionally, during the wedding parties,
NPR: Rasa is one of nearly 20 million Afghans struggling to put food on the dastarkhaan, according to a May report by the International Rescue Committee. Afghanistan’s economy crashed after the 2021 takeover, exacerbating steep increases in poverty that already had occurred because of COVID-19 and droughts, says Lutfi Rahimi, an economics professor at the
Ariana: Gallup said Afghans’ lives were already in a tailspin before the [Taliban] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) returned to power in 2021. Most Afghans were struggling to afford food and shelter, few felt safe, and they saw their lives getting worse with every passing year, it said. Gallup surveys conducted in August and September
8am: The Taliban have ordered all the students that music is forbidden, adding that the students are not allowed to listen to music neither in the dormitory rooms nor in the dining hall. In the meantime, most students at Kabul University dormitory have raised concerns and consider the new order as turning the university into
Tolo News: Some residents of Kabul complained over existing restrictions on visiting parks, saying they cannot go to parks and entertainment areas with their families. Earlier, the [Taliban] Ministry of Vice and Virtue issued a schedule that allotted specific days for families as well as for men and women. The restriction on parks is also
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