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
8am: Sources on Wednesday (June 15th) said that a wedding party was being held in the new city of Faizabad, which was stormed by the Taliban’s virtue promoters. Taliban forces have forcefully prevented the wedding from taking place. According to sources, the Taliban claimed that the women attending the wedding party did not wear the
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,
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
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A senior United Nations observer Thursday expressed serious concern about the “erasure of women from public life” across Afghanistan since the Islamist Taliban seized power in August. “Afghanistan is facing a plethora of critical human rights challenges that are having a severe impact on the population,” Richard
VOA News May 16, 2022 Husain Andaryas was a religious fighter in the war against the invading Soviet army in Afghanistan in the early 1980s, but almost a year after the Soviets left, he converted to Christianity. For the next nine years, Andaryas wandered in several regional countries, suffered torture, and was finally offered a
Ariana: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has rejected claims that orders were given to restaurants in Herat to separate male and female patrons. This comes after reports emerged recently that officials from the provincial department of promotion of virtue and prevention of vice visited restaurants and instructed owners to separate
Ariana: Afghans celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday, across all provinces of Afghanistan, including Kabul, after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government declared the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday night. This despite Saudi Arabia announcing Saturday that the crescent moon for the month of Shawwal had not been observed in Saudi Arabia. They declared Sunday
Ariana: The report said that in Afghanistan, many minority Jewish, Hindu and Sikh residents have fled the country after the IEA [Taliban] returned to power. It said many members of other religious minorities, such as Ahmadiyya Muslims, Baha’is and Christian converts are worshipping in secret for fear of persecution. Click here to read more (external