Reuters: The confidential, two-page brief, written early this month by senior international economic officials for institutions including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said the country’s severe cash shortage began before the Taliban took control of Kabul. Click here to read more (external link). Other Economic News The Future Looks Bleak for Women Entrepreneurs
Tolo News: Zabihullah Mujahid, Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, on Wednesday said the United States has violated Afghanistan’s airspace by its drones. “It has recently acted in violation of all international law and the United States’ commitments to the Islamic Emirate in Doha, Qatar, and Afghanistan’s sacred airspace is being occupied by US drones.
Pajhwok: The Afghan embassy in Switzerland has posted on its Facebook page that some leaders of the Ghani government are continuing to work as a government from abroad, but many condemned the move and Mujahid said it does not worth a response. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghan Politicians’ Statement Does Not
8am: An explosion in Asaad Abad, the capital of eastern Kunar province in Afghanistan, has reportedly injured three Taliban members. Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) reported that the director of the mines and Petroleum for Kunar province is wounded in the blast along with two Taliban members. Click here to read more (external link).
Financial Times: Ahmad Massoud, the leader of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front and the son of Soviet-era resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, Amrullah Saleh, the former vice-president and self-declared acting president, and Abdul Latif Pedram, the leader of the National congress party of Afghanistan, have all been given protection in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital. Click here to
Jeff Seldin VOA News September 28, 2021 WASHINGTON — Twenty years of American blood and treasure spent in Afghanistan was reduced Tuesday to about six hours of testimony in the United States Senate, with the nation’s top military officer admitting that the war amounted to a “strategic failure” that in the end, perhaps, could never have
Arthur Herman via The Hill: For more than three decades, our supposed ally in South Asia has systematically lied to and manipulated successive presidential administrations – Republican and Democratic – in ways that have made the U.S. and the world less safe. Islamabad has been the recipient of more than $33 billion in American assistance
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 28, 2021 Top U.S. military officers have told Congress that they overestimated the Afghan Army’s strength and believed the United States should have kept at least several thousand troops in the country to prevent a rapid takeover by the militant Taliban. In the highly-anticipated hearing on September 28, General Mark
CNN: Women will no longer be allowed to attend classes or work at Kabul University “until an Islamic environment is created,” the school’s new Taliban-appointed chancellor announced, in the latest move excluding Afghanistan’s women from public life. CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports. Click here to watch (external link). Related ‘I didn’t have the time to be
NDTV: The Taliban brutally executed a child in Takhar province of Afghanistan after his father is suspected to be a part of the Afghan Resistance Forces. The brutality has been reported by Panjshir Observer which is an independent media covering Panjshir and Afghanistan situation. Click here to read more (external link).