Ayaz Gul VOA News December 21, 2021 ISLAMABAD — A group of 46 mostly Democratic lawmakers Monday wrote a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden, pressing him to “conscientiously but urgently” take steps to help avert a looming humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan. The lawmakers asked Biden to quickly ease ongoing punitive sanctions and unblock the Afghan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 20, 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August has had a “dramatic” impact on the country’s media, with more than four out of every 10 media outlets having disappeared and 60 percent of journalists and other media workers no longer being able to work.
NPR: After the Taliban took over Afghanistan, members of the institute feared for their lives. After five airlifts starting Oct. 2, nearly 300 students, faculty and family members affiliated with the music school all made it safely to Doha by mid-November. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 19, 2021 Hundreds of Afghans have braved freezing temperatures to stand in line outside the newly reopened passport office in Kabul, hoping to receive travel documents that would enable them to leave the war-ravaged country following the Taliban takeover in August. The crowd started to gather late on December 18,
The Hill: Mohib blamed the decision to not involve the Afghan government in talks with the Taliban for its ultimate collapse. According to the former official, the biggest mistake was not understanding that the U.S. was withdrawing from Afghanistan, regardless of the situation. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 19, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban assured a special meeting of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Sunday that they will do more to enhance national political inclusivity and promote human rights, including those of women, in the country. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi spoke in Pakistan at
8am: Taliban Foreign Ministry chief Amir Khan Muttaqi met Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, the current president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), in Islamabad, the Taliban Foreign Ministry said. Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman is one of Pakistan’s religious scholars who, during the previous government, repeatedly supported suicide and explosive attacks in Afghanistan and issued a fatwa on jihad in the country.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 18, 2021 The unrecognized Taliban government in Afghanistan has appealed to the international community to help counter a worsening economic crisis that threatens to drive more migrants out of the country. Taliban representative Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who holds the post of deputy foreign minister, made the appeal at a
8am: The Taliban named this religious scholar Mawlawi Bismillah Shakir and specified that he was the co-principle of the supreme Arabic Darul Uloom in Kabul, according to Bakhtar news agency. In the meantime, the number of explosions in Kabul has increased since the takeover, and most of these explosions have been claimed by the Islamic
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 18, 2021 The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have announced that they will resume issuing passports, providing a window of hope for those who have applied for travel documents in an effort to leave the country. An official from the passport department of the Taliban’s Interior Ministry told reporters on December 18