By Daud Khattak Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 14, 2022 Ten years ago this month, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, then 15, was shot in the head on her school bus by the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group. The attack on Yousafzai, who had become a target for her campaign for girls’ education, sent shock waves
8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh that an estimated 50 civilians have been kidnapped since Thursday (October 13th) after the death of two Taliban fighters following an assault by the National Resistance Front(NRF) forces in the Abshar district. After this incident, the Taliban imprisoned 40 residents of Baba Ali, Qoubi, Jahr Ali and Sarqala villages in
Khaama: Heather Barr, Associate Director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, dubs Afghanistan the “only country on the planet” to deny girls access to education, warning of the devastating impact of the Taliban action. “This is absolutely a shameful situation which makes Afghanistan the only country on the planet which systematically denies
8am: Sources report that the Taliban group arrested another Panjshiri resident in Kabul and then shot him dead. The body of the victim whose name was Abdul Hamid was found by his family members at a hospital in Kabul on Wednesday, according to sources. The Taliban had reportedly arrested the victim 11 days ago in
Khaama: Abdul Salam Hanafi, the deputy prime minister of the Taliban, stated during a meeting with Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, that human rights violations in Afghanistan are mere “Facebook rumors.” The UN special rapporteur on the situation of Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, whose mandate was extended
8am: The deadly attack on the Kaaj Educational Training Center in the Dasht-e Barchi area in the west of Kabul, which killed more than 50 people and wounded 110 others, caused widespread protests inside and outside the country. Incited female students and female protesters started a march a day after this attack. These protests were
AFP: The United States announced new sanctions Tuesday against the Taliban as punishment for their repressive treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the new visa restriction policy for current or former members of the Taliban and others involved in repressing women through restrictive policies and violence. Blinken made
Margaret Besheer VOA News October 10, 2022 NEW YORK — The U.N. General Assembly will vote Tuesday to admit 14 countries to the 47-member Human Rights Council; among them are some candidates with poor rights records, including Afghanistan and Venezuela. Seventeen candidate countries from five regional groups are running, but only two groups — Asia-Pacific and
8am: Taliban fighters pulled the bodies of two NRF fighters from their graves in Panjshir province. The incident took place on Sunday (October 9th) in Dara district, Panjshir province. The corpses of these two NRF forces were buried in Koukzar mountains in Dara district. Reports indicate that the Taliban have pulled the bodies of these
UN: “We are erased,” said Mahbooba Seraj, a human rights activist from Afghanistan. “Today the human rights in Afghanistan does not exist. Women of Afghanistan do not exist for the Taliban.” Seraj is an Afghan women’s rights activist based in Afghanistan. She chose to stay in the country after the Taliban takeover to be a