Ariana: Almost 80% of Afghan girls are missing out on an education, Save the Children said Friday- almost a month after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) issued a ban on teenage girls going to school. “Education is a lifeline for all children, especially girls. Without it, they are at increased risk of violence, abuse, and exploitation, including early marriage…” Click here to read more (external link).
Fazel Ahmad Manawi
Aamaj: Former justice minister, Fazel Ahmad Manawi, in a tweet said all ethnic groups in Afghanistan, in particular Hazaras are the target of Taliban and other terrorist groups. He added that the occupation of the country by Taliban’s barbaric group has provided the other terrorist groups with the opportunity to expand their activities. Click here to read more (external link).
Asharq Al-Awsat: Eight months since it came to power, this hated government has not gained recognition by international community. The only weapon it has is to vicitimize itself, exaggerate the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan and use the name of ISIS to create terror amongst the Westerners.
Taliban has now created an imaginary group (which, in reality, consists of suicide bombers trained by themselves) which it introduces as ISIS so as to not take responsibility for murdering of innocent people.
Meanwhile, during a trip to Turkey, Taliban’s foreign minister claimed that ISIS’s reach was exaggerated and the terrorist group had no base in Afghanistan.
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi
April 22, 2022
An explosion at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz region during Friday Prayers has killed at least 33 people, a Taliban official said on April 22.
Students of the school are among the dead, said Zabihullah Mujahid on Twitter.
“We condemn this crime…and express our deepest sympathies to the bereaved,” he said.
The blast, which also wounded another 43 people, many of them students, occurred in the town of Imam Saheb in Kunduz Province, he said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for a series of bombings on April 21, the worst of which was an attack on a Shi’ite mosque in northern Mazar-e-Sharif that killed at least 12 worshippers and left 58 people injured.
The blast occurred as people gathered to worship in the mosque, according to eyewitnesses. Shortly after the blast at the mosque there was a large explosion on a road in Kabul. No details were available about the latter explosion.
Recent bombings in Kabul and other Afghan cities have killed dozens of people. Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), which claimed responsibility for the attack at a Shi’ite mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, also claimed a separate attack on April 21 in Kunduz city that killed four people and wounded 18.
Taliban authorities said earlier on April 22 that they had arrested the “mastermind” of the bombing at the mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif.
With reporting by Reuters and AFP
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8am: Simultaneously, the Liberation Front and the Freedom Front Forces also reported targeted attacks on Taliban members in Kapisa and Kandahar provinces. Shamsullah Mohammadi, Acting Head of the Taliban Information and Culture in Faryab province, has confirmed the clashes but has denied any casualties of the Taliban members. Click here to read more (external link).
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8am: Due to heavy rains over the past three days, Panjshir, Nuristan, and Faryab provinces have witnessed devastating floods. Click here to read more (external link).
Al Jazeera: The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability. What better illustration of the perversities of “justice” under colonial modernity, than the grotesquely disparate treatment of Afghanistan versus the Vatican when it comes to exacting recompense for international crimes. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Local sources in Kunduz province have confirmed that a suicide bomber blew up himself inside a mosque in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. According to sources, at least 40 prayers have been killed and more than 50 others injured. Click here to read more (external link).
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