Taliban Intends to Make Money and Credit by Holding the 12th-Grade Exams for Girls
8am: The Taliban have ordered that the 12th-grade exams of female students must be held in one day. All 12th-grade girls are going to appear in the exams today without having preparation as they have only been asked to contact their schools on Monday to register for the exam along with a photograph, ID card, and 600 AFG fees. School teachers describe the move, which leads to the graduation of all girls without attending classes and studying, as an “insult to education”, “abusing people” and “deceiving the international community”. Click here to read more (external link).
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- Tolo News: Bahar, a 12th-grade student who had given up on returning to school, was shocked when she was unexpectedly called to come to school. “I didn’t know anything about it at all. I got news today that the class 12th grade exams have begun,” Bahar said. “She did not attend the classes, didn’t study, and didn’t receive the books. They announced that tests would begin,” said Dawood, the father of Bahar.
Olympic Committee Threatens To Stop Working With Afghanistan Over Restrictions On Women In Sports
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi
December 6, 2022
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) warned on December 6 that it could stop working with Afghanistan if women are not allowed to play sports under Taliban rule.
The IOC said its support for Afghanistan’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) will depend on conditions, including women being allowed to play sports with “safe and inclusive access” and to take part in sports administration.
Afghan teams for international events must include female athletes who live in the country, not just those based abroad, the IOC said.
The warning came a day after Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the IOC to suspend Afghanistan from taking part in sports events immediately and to halt its funding. HRW said the ban should continue until women and girls are allowed to play sports in the country.
Forbidding women and girls from playing sports was one of the many restrictions imposed by the Taliban after its return to power in August 2021. HRW said that this is a violation of international human rights law and of the Olympic Charter, which mandates nondiscrimination in sport.
“Hundreds of female athletes have chosen to flee the country rather than give up the sports they love, and that are their jobs,” HRW said in its statement.
The IOC decision was announced after an executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. The board said it “expressed its serious concern and strongly condemned the latest restrictions imposed by the Afghan authorities on women and young girls in Afghanistan, which prevent them from practicing sport in the country.”
It was not immediately clear how soon the IOC might implement the measures, but the board said Afghanistan’s participation in the Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024 “will depend on the progress made in relation to the fundamental issue of safe access to sport for women and young girls in the country.”
The IOC said it will continue direct support for individual athletes from Afghanistan who aim to compete at the Olympics.
The Taliban-led government’s Department of Physical Training and Sports did not respond to RFE/RL’s request for comment.
With reporting by AP
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Girls Take On Manual Labor Jobs Instead of Learning, Save the Children Reports
8am: Save the Children reports that girls are doing manual labor instead of learning in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In a piece that appeared online on Monday (December 5th), Save the Children said that female students in Afghanistan have lost hope for the future after being banned from attending school since the Taliban regained control in August last year and have been transformed from students into child laborers against their will. Sacha Myers, a reporter for Save the Children, said it was painful to watch the hard-won rights of women and girls in Afghanistan being destroyed overnight. Click here to read more (external link).
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Explosion Rattles Money Exchange Market in Eastern Afghanistan, Inflicting Injuries
Khaama: An explosion took place near the money exchange market in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Tuesday security officials said. According to the governor’s office in the province of Nangarhar, the explosion took place on Tuesday, December 6, at around 2:00 local time at the money exchange market, causing several injuries. Local sources in the province with knowledge of the incident stated that at least 9 people, all of whom were civilians, were severely injured and were taken to the hospital. Click here to read more (external link).
Taliban Arrest 6 Panjshir Residents on Suspicion of Assisting NRF
8am: Taliban fighters arrested at least 6 residents of Dara district in Panjshir and Kabul provinces on the accusations of collaborating with NRF forces and took them to an unknown location, sources confirmed to Hasht-e Subh on late Monday (December 5th). According to reports, a high school teacher in Rokha district of Panjshir Province has recently died after being tortured in Taliban custody. Click here to read more (external link).
At Least Five Killed In Explosion In Northern Afghanistan
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi
December 6, 2022
At least five people were killed on December 6 in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a vehicle carrying oil workers in northern Afghanistan, police said. “Today at around 7 a.m. a blast took place in…Balkh on a bus that belonged to Hairatan oil employees,” said Asif Wazeri, spokesman for the Taliban police in the northern province of Balkh, adding that at least four people were wounded. No group has claimed the attack.
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Afghanistan’s guerrilla generation: an interview with Ahmad Massoud
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The Spectator: Fighting has continued against the Taliban in Afghanistan while the world has not been watching. The commander of the main opposition force, Ahmad Massoud, began with 643 fighters after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, and now claims to have a force of 5,000 across six provinces in a belt in the northeast of the country. In a rare meeting in Tajikistan, where he commands remotely from across the northern border of Afghanistan, the 34-year-old resistance leader told me that western countries are making a mistake by trying to engage with the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
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Teacher Dies After Being Tortured in Taliban Custody in Panjshir
8am: Speaking to Hasht-e Subh from Panjshir province, reliable sources identified the school teacher as Shamsullah and added that he was arrested by Taliban fighters a few months ago. Taliban forces handed over Shamsullah’s body to his family in Kabul on Sunday (December 5th), according to independent sources. The victim was a teacher at Rokha district high school in Panjshir province, sources added. Since claiming power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have arrested, tortured and killed hundreds of civilians in Panjshir province under the pretext of destroying the rebels. Click here to read more (external link).