By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 6, 2021 Sikhs in Kabul say more than a dozen armed men attacked and briefly occupied a Sikh temple in the Kart-e Parwan district of the Afghan capital on October 5, tying up the guards and destroying security cameras. There were no major injuries reported. The leader of the temple, Gurnam,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 6, 2021 Hundreds of people have gathered outside the passport office in Kabul to apply for travel documents after the service opened for the first time since the Taliban seized power in mid-August. The day before, the Taliban’s Interior Ministry announced that all staff — including female employees — had been
Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed Anjum has been appointed the new head of Pakistan's ISI, replacing Lt. Gen Faiz Hamid, who has been appointed the Peshawar corps commander, Dawn News reported.#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/922djyv0Cc — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) October 6, 2021
8am: Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman and deputy minister of information and culture, said that on Tuesday night, October 6, Taliban forces carried out a campaign on an ISKP base in the Paghman district of Kabul. According to Mujahid, four members of ISKP group were arrested in the operation, which was carried out by special
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 5, 2021 ISLAMABAD — The international rights advocacy group Amnesty International has accused Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban of unlawfully killing 13 members of the ethnic Hazara minority community on August 30, two weeks after the Islamist group seized control of the war-ravaged country. Eleven surrendering troops from the ousted Afghan government and
Axios: Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, Adela Raz, has lost her country and her faith in the U.S. government — and her life’s work of liberating women and girls is in shambles. She shared her despair with “Axios on HBO” in her first television interview since the fall of Kabul. The big picture: Raz
AP: More than 100 students, alumni and faculty members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music have been flown out of Kabul on their way to Portugal, where the government has agreed to grant them asylum, the institute’s director said Monday. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 4, 2021 Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has held its first cabinet meeting since taking power in August, the group’s chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on October 4 in a press release, which also announced that the government would resume issuing passports and ID cards to Afghan citizens. The Taliban unilaterally formed
Roshan Noorzai VOA News October 4, 2021 WASHINGTON — The international community is renewing its focus on Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, believed to be worth more than $1 trillion, lying untapped within its often-hostile geography. This comes as the newly formed Taliban government faces a looming economic crisis in the country. The mineral deposits could potentially be
Tahmina Talash and her husband, Tamim, both worked for civil society organizations in Afghanistan’s Takhar Province as the Taliban gained power there. Fearing for their lives amid death threats, they fled to Tajikistan just before Tahmina gave birth to a daughter, Mohanna.