Blast Kills One, Injures Two Other Taliban Members in Badakhshan
8am: One Taliban fighter is killed and two others injured as a result of an explosion in Badakhshan province, local sources said. The blast reportedly took place in Argo district of the province at around 4:10pm Wednesday evening. According to sources, the target of this explosion was a Taliban vehicle and it was due to an embedded mine on the side of the road. Click here to read more (external link).
Pak records 51% rise in terror attacks in one year after Afghan-Taliban got power in Afghanistan: Report
PTI: “For Pakistan, the perils of a militant regime in Kabul have become unmistakably clear as the country has witnessed a mindboggling 51 per cent increase in the number of terrorist attacks in a single year since the Taliban takeover,” Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) noted in its report ‘Fallout of Afghan situation and Pakistan’s policy responses ‘. Click here to read more (external link).
Afghan couple accuse U.S. Marine of abducting their baby
Joshua Mast
CTVNews: This is a story about how one U.S. Marine became fiercely determined to bring home an Afghan war orphan, and praised it as an act of Christian faith to save her. Letters, emails and documents submitted in federal filings show that he used his status in the U.S. Armed Forces, appealed to high-ranking Trump administration officials and turned to small-town courts to adopt the baby, unbeknownst to the Afghan couple raising her 7,000 miles away. The little girl, now 3 1/2 years old, is at the centre of a high-stakes tangle of at least four court cases. The Afghan couple, desperate to get her back, has sued Joshua and his wife Stephanie Mast. But the Masts insist they are her legal parents and “acted admirably” to protect her. They’ve asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit. Click here to read more (external link).
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Afghan girls (file photo)
The New Arab: New restrictions imposed by the Taliban have also had an impact on children’s mental health, especially for girls. The restrictions mean many girls have been excluded from school, socialising and going to parks and shops. The economic crisis has also forced some girls into early marriage as their parents need the money to feed the other children in the family. Click here to read more (external link).
In Afghanistan, Pakistan has outmanoeuvred India
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Deccan Herald: Rawalpindi has used geography and geopolitics and its perceived influence over the Taliban to its advantage to reclaim its most-favoured ally status – In the months before the brutal assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander of the India-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, two days before the Al Qaida’s attacks on New York’s Twin Towers in September 2001, the Afghan resistance leader… Click here to read more (external link).
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Visits Panjshir
8am: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Afghanistan has traveled to Panjshir while this morning dozens of residents of the Peryan district of this province, including women, protested in response to the harassment of civilians by the Taliban. The Taliban, however, dispersed the protestors with aerial shots. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV Afghanistan Dari News – October 19, 2022
Afghan GDP Estimated to Further Contract This Year: World Bank
Tolo News: The World Bank released a development update on Afghanistan, in which it estimated that the real GDP is projected to contract further in 2022, with an accumulated contraction of close to 30-35 percent between 2021 and 2022. The report highlighted the economic and humanitarian challenges of Afghanistan. The report said the economy of the country is now readjusting, and the international community’s ongoing off-budget support for humanitarian needs and basic services is expected to mitigate some of the negative impacts of the contraction but it will still be not sufficient to bring the economy back onto a sustainable recovery path. Click here to read more (external link).
Playing Football Has No Religious Justification and Is Prohibited: Taliban in Badghis Province
8am: Sources told Hasht-e Subh on Wednesday (October 19th) that the Taliban had told the Football Federation of Badghis Province yesterday that after this match, football would be banned. Following the order of the Taliban, the Badghis Football Federation informed the football teams not to play football anymore. Previously, the Taliban in Nimruz Province had beaten a young man for wearing football uniform. Click here to read more (external link).