Amnesty International: Responding to the series of attacks leading to about 120 deaths and injuries in areas dominated by Hazara Shiite communities in west Kabul over the last few days, Zaman Sultani, Amnesty International’s South Asia regional researcher, said: “The systematic attacks on the minority Hazara Shiite community in Afghanistan may amount to crimes against
8am: This incident took place on Monday (August 8th) in the Dara-e Abdullahkhel neighborhood, Dara district of Panjshir province. The 37-year-old woman has severely been beaten up and her arm was broken by Taliban forces for rejecting a Taliban fighter’s marriage proposal. There have previously been reports indicating that Taliban affiliates forcibly marry women in
The Guardian (UK): Despite their promises of peace and stability, the country is on its knees, and its people are desperate “The Taliban are representing the Taliban, not Afghanistan. Half of the population has not been represented in government at all in the past nine months,” said the Afghan analyst. As in 2001, whole ethnic,
HRW: Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis cannot be effectively addressed unless the United States and other governments ease restrictions on the country’s banking sector to facilitate legitimate economic activity and humanitarian aid, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch issued an updated question-and-answer document outlining the economic crisis and steps to overcome it. Click here to
Nathan J. Robinson and Noam Chomsky via Current Affairs: The 20-year war in Afghanistan is often spoken of as a well-intentioned failure. In fact, it was a major crime originating in bloodlust and an indifference to Afghan lives. The U.S. bears a major responsibility for the present suffering of Afghans and has an obligation to
CBS News: Nearly a year since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis and human rights record under the Taliban remains dire. Despite the demands of the U.S. and many in the international community, the rights of women in Afghanistan have deteriorated to a level unseen since the Taliban first imposed its repressive policies
8am: Local sources in Sar-e Pol province confirm that the Taliban intelligence has arrested a young man named Rahim Ughlo in the center of the province for connection with General Abdul Rashid Dostum. In recent months, arbitrary arrests of citizens by the Taliban have increased in the northern provinces of the country. Click here to
8am: A number of residents in Panjshir province are complaining about the continued harassment of civilians by the Taliban group in this province. According to residents, the Taliban have seized more than ten residential houses, a technical and vocational high school and a girls’ school in Astana village and are using these private properties as
8am: Mohammad Raziq, one of the tribal elders of Salang district in Parwan province, is arrested by the Taliban group. In an interview with Hasht-e Subh, sources said that he was arrested this week from the Tajikan area of Jabal Saraj district for collaborating with the National Resistance Front (NRF). Prior to this, dozens of
8am: Following the increase of house-to-house search operations in Samangan province, the residents of the province say that the Taliban rebels are checking people’s cell phones too. According to residents, the Taliban do not care about people’s privacy and search their homes and mobile phones without a court order. “We have private contents in our