Taliban Pulled the Corpses of Two NRF Fighters Out of Graves in Panjshir Province
8am: Taliban fighters pulled the bodies of two NRF fighters from their graves in Panjshir province. The incident took place on Sunday (October 9th) in Dara district, Panjshir province. The corpses of these two NRF forces were buried in Koukzar mountains in Dara district. Reports indicate that the Taliban have pulled the bodies of these two National Resistance Front (NRF) forces out of the grave because they thought they were buried with their weapons. Click here to read more (external link).
“We are erased.”
Mahbouba Seraj
UN: “We are erased,” said Mahbooba Seraj, a human rights activist from Afghanistan. “Today the human rights in Afghanistan does not exist. Women of Afghanistan do not exist for the Taliban.” Seraj is an Afghan women’s rights activist based in Afghanistan. She chose to stay in the country after the Taliban takeover to be a witness of what was going to be happening and be able to tell the world about it, she said. Seraj was one of the speakers during a discussion on the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan during the Human Rights Council. Click here to read more (external link).
More Than 50% of Afghans Struggle with Mental Problems: HRW
8am: Marking World Mental Health Day, HRW published a report Monday citing the former government’s documents that in Afghanistan, which has been devastated by 40 years of armed conflict, it is estimated that more than half the population, including many survivors of conflict-related violence, experience depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, but fewer than 10 percent receive adequate psychosocial support from the state. Ukraine, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Gaza, Iraq, South Sudan and Syria, in addition to Afghanistan, are countries where the level of mental illness is high. Click here to read more (external link).
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The Atlantic: An Afghan women’s-rights activist had connected me with Hajera, who was too afraid to share her last name. “We had a job,” she told me. “We had money. We had a home. We had a country. We had a family.” Now, she said, “we have nothing.” Afghanistan is, once again, the worst place in the world to be a woman. Click here to read more (external link).
Why America Just Set Free the ‘Pablo Escobar of Afghanistan’
Bashir Noorzai
Daily Beast: “Noorzai isn’t the first drug smuggler the US [had] released; about 50 other drug traffickers were released after the Doha deal, but he is certainly the most prominent,” the official said. “All of them [released prisoners] have gone back to their narcotic business again, as will Noorzai. The Taliban continue to depend on drug trafficking and smuggling to sustain themselves financially.” Click here to read more (external link).
Intelligence Head Wasiq Meets Deputy CIA Head in Doha: Source
Tolo News: The head of intelligence of the Islamic Emirate [Taliban], Abdul Haq Wasiq, met with the deputy head of the CIA, David Cohen, and US special envoy Thomas West, an Islamic Emirate source told TOLOnews. “The Taliban are struggling to prevent ISIS-K attacks, making them look feckless, particularly in Kabul,” said Beth Sanner, a former Deputy Director of National Intelligence who led Afghanistan analysis at the CIA. Sanner is also a CNN contributor. Click here to read more (external link).
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Protests, Kabul to Berlin, Will the World Recognize the Systemic Killing of Hazaras as Genocide?
8am: The suicide attack on the Kaaj Educational Training Center in the west of Kabul city, which led to the death and injury of more than 100 teenage students, has resulted in widespread domestic and international reactions. The scope of these reactions has expanded from Kabul to America, Europe, and many countries of the world. A number of social media users launched a campaign on Twitter under the title “#StopHazaraGenocide”. Click here to read more (external link).
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Biden signs policy limiting drone strikes in Afghanistan, other countries
US MQ-9 Reaper drone (file photo)
Ariana: US President Joe Biden has signed a classified policy limiting counterterrorism drone strikes outside conventional war zones, including Afghanistan, New York Times reported this week. The policy requires Biden’s approval before a suspected terrorist is added to a list of those who can be targeted for “direct action,” in a return to a more centralized control of decisions about targeted killing operations that was a hallmark of President Barack Obama’s second term. Trump had given commanders in the field greater latitude to decide whom to target. Click here to read more (external link).