Fox News: Western mining can do what Western militaries never could: put Afghanistan on the path of self-sufficiency. Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth. Mining could bootstrap economic development for the Afghan people. It could also secure for the United States the raw materials necessary to boost semiconductor and clean energy production, as intended by the blockbuster Chips and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News in Dari – August 27, 2022
Taliban Launches House-to-House Search Operations in Kunduz Province
8am: According to sources, the Taliban group launched this search operation on Friday night in the areas of Rastaqabad, Sardawra, Karte Faizabad and University Alley. Sources have added that the Taliban have searched only the Tajik areas of this city with ethnic segregation. Click here to read more (external link).
Hekmatyar calls for elected body to decide future governance system
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Ariana: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hizb-e-Islami, on Friday called for establishment of a council whose members would be elected by the people and which would draft a constitution and decide the future governance system. “We never want to join a government which is not formed based on the people’s votes…where the highest authority is not a council that would represent the national consensus, a council whose members are not elected by the people and whose decisions are not fully respected ” Hekmatyar said at his weekly sermon. Click here to read more (external link).
9/11 Victims Not Entitled to Seize Afghan Central Bank Assets, US Judge Says
Reuters: A U.S. judge on Friday recommended that victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks not be allowed to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
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Tolo News in Dari – August 26, 2022
How Turkey lost its bid to run Afghanistan’s airports to the UAE
ME Eye: “Turkey and Qatar were supposed to establish a joint venture to run Kabul and three other airports,” one Turkish source familiar with the talks said. “However, the Taliban demanded that the bank accounts that would be opened by the venture must be under its control.” The source added that the Taliban made some other unexpected changes to the deal, such as upping the airport fees and taxes. Click here to read more (external link).
Three Taliban Members Killed in Baghlan’s Tala Wa Barfak District
8am: Local sources in the Tala Wa Barfak district of Baghlan province say that around 8:00 am on Friday (August 26th), two factions of the Taliban fought each other. A local source, who did not want to be named for security reasons, says that following this gun fighting, three Taliban members affiliated with the Pashtun community were killed by local Taliban members. Click here to read more (external link).
Travel ban waiver necessary for engagement with IEA: China
Ariana: Extending travel ban exemptions for leaders of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) [Taliban] is necessary for world’s engagement with the government, China’s ambassador to the United Nations has said. A UN Security Council waiver allowing 13 IEA leaders, including Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, to travel abroad expired last Friday, after member states failed to agree on a possible extension in the exemptions. Click here to read more (external link).
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200,000 Afghans Face Moderate to Severe Malnutrition in Past Month
Starving Afghan Child (file photo)
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health said that 200,000 Afghans, including women and children, have been suffering from malnutrition in the last month in the country. “Malnutrition cases here are not due just to economic challenges, but they are suffering because their mothers are uneducated and do not know how to feed their children,” said Samsor Zarin, a doctor. But patients’ families said it is because of economic challenges that they cannot feed their children. Click here to read more (external link).