Tehran Times
November 15, 2022
TEHRAN – Consulate of Iran in Mazar-e-Sharif has announced the beginning of the export of tractors from Iran to Afghanistan, Fars News Agency reported.
As reported, Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company, a major Iranian tractor manufacturing company, has opened a representative office in Mazar-e-Sharif and the first cargo of the mentioned company’s tractors has arrived in the mentioned province.
Iranian manufacturers are currently producing 35,000 heavy duty tractors every year, 10,000 of which the country can export.
EURACTIV: A joint railway project between Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan is gaining momentum as it could open up international trade routes, but some caution against collaborating with Taliban-controlled Afghanistan considering ongoing human rights abuses and the introduction of Sharia law. The line will run from Termez in Uzbekistan to Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul, then onto Peshawar in Pakistan. 
8am: Local sources in Bamiyan confirmed that Mehruddin, the brother of the chief of the Taliban-controlled agriculture department in Bamiyan, opened fire on a civilian in Kahmard district on Monday (November 14th). When the injured person was being taken to the hospital by his family affiliates, the brother of the Taliban official ambushed them on the road and fired at the car carrying them, sources added. As a result of this incident, two others were also injured. 
Tolo News: Local officials in the province of Uruzgan said that families in the province are using opium as medication to treat their children. Health officials in the province acknowledged that some families bring opium-addicted patients to healthcare centers. Children have reportedly died as a result of using opium as medicine, according to authorities. 
Arwin Rahi via The National Interest: The United States had no reliable allies or partners in Afghanistan. Both the warlords and so-called liberals who had returned from the West worked to further their own personal and family interests. For instance, right after the Taliban’s collapse in 2001, instead of agreeing on a constitutional framework to devolve power from Kabul to local governments, to ensure civic participation at the grassroots level, the warlords agreed—on paper—to a strong central government in Kabul in exchange for ministerial portfolios in the cabinet or governorships. Later, in the mid-to-late 2000s, when former president Hamid Karzai consolidated his hold on power, he fired many of the warlords that he had previously relied on. 