8am: Local Taliban officials have confirmed the detention of civilians in Panjshir province. Abu Bakr Siddiq, a spokesman for the Taliban governor for Panjshir, said in a video clip on Saturday afternoon (June 4th) that 30 to 40 civilians had been detained by the Taliban in the first district of Panjshir. Click here to read more (external link).
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CNW Telbec: The Government of Canada is working hard to resettle at least 40,000 Afghan nationals as quickly and safely as possible. Canada has now welcomed a total of 14,645 Afghan refugees, with more arriving every week. Click here to read more (external link).
Cycling News: Given the political situation in their country, the Afghanistan Women’s National Championships are set to be held in Switzerland at the UCI headquarters in Aigle next October 23rd. The one race, based on a 28.5 kilometre circuit, will have two categories, under-23 and elite women and around 60 participants, all currently in exile from their country, are expected to take part. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Local sources in Nuristan province have reported that for the last twelve days, the forests in this province are burning into the fire, as a result of which more than two hundred acres of forests have been burned down into ashes. According to the residents, fires have been raging in the forests of Nurgram district of the province for the past twelve days. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The residence has existed for three hundred years. Reconstruction work began under the previous government but was halted in the wake of the political change. Cultural analysts called on the current Afghan government to prevent the residence from being demolished and to repair it as soon as possible. Click here to read more (external link).
AP: For some Afghans who were evacuated as their country fell to the Taliban last summer, the journey to the United States has stalled, and perhaps ended, at a sun-baked cluster of tents and temporary housing on an American base in the Balkans. Click here to read more (external link).
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8am: A local source in Ghazni province said on Saturday that the Taliban had increased its surveillance over barber shops and hairdressers across the city recently. The source says that on Friday, the Taliban severely beat a gents’ hairdresser in the Khaja Ali area of Ghazni city while shaving the beard of a customer and broke one of his arms. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Afghanistan’s Medicine Importers Union on Saturday urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to prevent pharmaceutical drugs from being smuggled into the country and assured the people that there would be enough medicine to cover the domestic market. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: In a statement, the National Resistance Front (NRF) has written that the Taliban group has deployed more than 30,000 Taliban special fighters in Panjshir, Baghlan, and Takhar provinces for the purpose of fighting against the NRF forces and to crackdown on any resistance groups in these areas. “Taliban fighters have been carrying out such a brutal crackdown on the civilians in these provinces that reminds the the “brutal fighting of former Soviet Forces” in Afghanistan,” the statement said. The statement further stated that the Taliban group has arrested, tortured, and killed innocent civilians on alleged charges of affiliation with NRF in these areas, forcing dozens of families to flee their homes. Click here to read more (external link).
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The Guardian (UK): Intelligence report raises fears country could again become base for international terrorists – The UN report suggests most senior al-Qaida leaders are currently based in the eastern region of Afghanistan, from Zabul province north towards Kunar and along the border with Pakistan. The border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan is lined with inhospitable hills that have served as strongholds for a number of militant groups. Click here to read more (external link).