RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal June 14, 2022 Farhad Salehi, a resident of the western Herat Province, has been chasing a Pakistani visa for weeks. Like hundreds of thousands of his compatriots, he wants to escape the uncertainty brought on by the economic collapse that followed the Taliban’s seizure of power last year. He
8am: The Taliban on Tuesday (June 14th) reprimanded those women who were shopping without having their mahrams – male companions – after entering a market in Herat. Local sources told Hasht-e Subh that the Taliban had ordered shopkeepers that no women were allowed to enter the market without a mahram to prevent sin and prostitution,
Tolo News: “The Taliban must immediately halt their increasing attacks and arbitrary detentions of journalists and media workers in Afghanistan,” IFJ said in a report. According to an IFJ report, facing possible threats, almost 1,000 journalists have departed Afghanistan in the last year. “An estimated 1,000 journalists have fled the country since last August, with
8am: Taliban forces shot dead a man in the village of Pishgur in the first part of Panjshir Valley on Sunday (June 12th). The source says that the victim’s name was Morteza Rasouli and he was suffering from a neurological disease. The source added that Taliban forces have shot him in the back. Click here
Aamaj: Faizullah Jalal, a university professor, in an interview with Deutsche Welle said that the Taliban intelligence forces treated him badly the very first day that they had arrested him. He added that a Taliban fighters slapped him on the face and the other one punched him on his eye, as well as another one
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 10, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have illegally detained and tortured residents in northern Panjshir province for their alleged links to armed opposition forces, Human Rights Watch said Friday. The U.S.-based global rights monitoring group said fighting had escalated in Panjshir since mid-May, when fighters of the National Resistance Front
8am: Locals say the Taliban have recently moved a reserve battalion to Kapisa province. The unit is said to have consisted of 400 armed personnel. A reliable source told Hasht-e Subh on Friday (June 10th) that the Taliban had been moving troops into the Sanjan area of the first district of Kapisa province for the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 9, 2022 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the international community to impose tougher restrictions on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers in response to what the watchdog called a “grave human rights crisis” that has been especially affecting women and girls after the group’s return to power in August. Since taking
Al Jazeera: Nabi Roshan was a renowned comedian, dubbed by many as the Jon Stewart of Afghanistan, with his show aired on the country’s largest TV network – watched by millions each week. But last August he was forced to flee the country after the Taliban armed group took over the country 20 years after
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Mustafa Sarwar June 7, 2022 PARWAN, Afghanistan — Armed Taliban fighters stopped at Ahmad’s home last week, ordering his family of six to immediately leave their village in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan. “They didn’t even allow us to take any of our belongings,” Ahmad, who did not reveal his real name