Karzai says while the war has ended, unity has not yet been achieved
Hamid Karzai
Ariana: Former president Hamid Karzai has said that while the war has ended in Afghanistan, the country has not achieved peace and stability as it desired. The former president urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to facilitate the return of their political opponents who are living outside the country. Click here to read more (external link).
Up to 8 children dying daily in Kabul hospital from malnutrition: Source
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Ariana: As many as eight children die each day from malnutrition at just one hospital in Kabul, a reliable source told Ariana News on Wednesday. According to the source, who asked not to be named, the deaths have happened at the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).
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8am: The Press Office of Ghor province has published a newsletter, referring to the decree of Ministry of Vice and Virtue bans shooting memorial photos and shaving beards and cutting hairs in Ghor province. Furthermore, it is declared that anyone found disobedient would face harsh punishment by the concerned Taliban authorities. Click here to read more (external link).
Nearly 400 civilians killed in Afghanistan under Taliban rule: UN
Al Jazeera: A new United Nations report has said nearly 400 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, more than 80 percent by a group affiliated with ISIL (ISIS). It is the first major human rights report since the Taliban seized power from the former US-backed government in August, triggering concerns in the West about a broader rollback of rights for women, journalists and others. Click here to read more (external link).
What US betrayal of Afghan women means on International Women’s Day
The Hill: The brutality and persecution of women and girls shown by the Taliban are unmatched. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are banned from school and where women are not allowed to leave the house without a male chaperone. And so it is easy for people outside the country to dismiss the lessons from Afghanistan as overly extreme. Click here to read more (external link).
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The Guardian (UK): A week ago, Masouma Tajik found herself running for her life for the second time in six months. Evacuated from Kabul after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she was now fleeing another country in another continent, this time to escape Russian bombs and bullets. A software engineer and data analyst, 23-year-old Tajik says the shock and trauma of finding herself in another war zone has shaken her sense of reality. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV Afghanistan Dari News – March 8, 2022
COVID-19 kills 40 people in Afghanistan in one week
Ariana: Forty people have died from COVID-19 in Afghanistan in the past week, authorities said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Public Health, however, said that the peak of the current wave of COVID-19 has passed in Afghanistan and that infections and deaths are declining. Click here to read more (external link).
Taliban, Iranian Border Guards Exchange Fire
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi
March 8, 2022
An hourlong gun battle erupted between the Taliban and Iranian border guards in the frontier area of Afghanistan’s Nimroz Province, local sources told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi.
A Taliban source said the clash started on March 7 when Afghan farmers began digging a canal in the Sekhsar area of Nimroz’s Kang district in the border area, prompting Iranian border guards to cross into Afghanistan to try and stop them.
According to the source, who declined to be named given the sensitivity of the issue, the Taliban responded to the incursion of the Iranian border guards, which led to a gun fight during which a Taliban vehicle caught fire.
Unconfirmed reports said four Iranian border guards were killed in the clash. No Taliban casualties were reported.
Similar clashes have taken place in the past in the Afghan-Iranian border region.
With reporting by AIP