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).
The Guardian (UK): Gul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women’s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan. Their former offices have been taken over by the Taliban’s feared enforcers, the ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. They are now in hiding, afraid of
Al Jazeera: Several Afghan women Al Jazeera spoke to say they have struggled to put food on the table as Taliban fails to revive the economy. Click here to read more (external link). Related The struggling shopkeepers of Afghanistan – in pictures The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique January 6, 2022 When the Taliban seized power in August, the militant group vowed it would not resurrect the violent religious policing it enforced during its first stint in power. The hard-liners claimed they would limit themselves to preaching Islamic values of modesty and dignity. But nearly five months after
8am: The Taliban-led government has asked businessmen and shopkeepers in Pul-e-Alam, Logar, to offer their daily prayers in congregations and mosques. The Department of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil has also instructed the barbershops in the city of Pul-e-Alam that taking money and shaving the beard is forbidden and should be avoided. Click
Al Jazeera: In the biting cold of a Kabul autumn, Hadia Ahmadi, a 43-year-old teacher who lost her job after the Taliban seized Afghanistan’s capital in August, sits by the roadside trying to earn the equivalent of a few cents polishing shoes. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique November 29, 2021 Yasir had locked up his shop and was walking to his home in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when he was stopped by Taliban fighters, who demanded to see his smartphone. “They went through my phone and saw photos of me playing sports, working out at the
BBC: BBC presenter Yalda Hakim was born in Afghanistan. Her family fled in the 1980s, during the Soviet occupation, but she has regularly reported from the country since. Now she has returned for the first time since the Taliban seized power 100 days ago. I knew that my first return to the country of my
A power crisis in the central Afghan province of Ghor is making life there even more difficult. Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August, the state electricity company Breshna has been unable to keep diesel power generators going in the provincial capital of Feroz Koh due to a lack of funds. The generators
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 8, 2021 ISLAMABAD — The United States’ special representative for Afghanistan Monday began his first trip to Europe and Asia to discuss developments in the South Asian nation, where almost 23 million people, including children, are threatened with starvation. Ambassador Thomas West’s first stop will be Brussels where his discussions with