8am: Local sources in Faizabad, the center of Badakhshan province, have reported that the Taliban’s Education Directorate in the province has ordered its entire staff, by issuing a letter to grow beards and wear hats or turbans during congregational prayers. According to sources, Taliban have warned the department’s employees that they will fire the violators
8am: Armed clashes between National Resistance Front (NRF) Forces and Taliban militants in the Rokha district of Panjshir left 3 Taliban members killed 5 other fighters injured. According to Local eyewitnesses, a bridge, which was connecting the villages of Hesarak, Golzangar and Morshtan to the center of Rokha district, is exploded by National Resistance Front
8am: On the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, local authorities of Badakhshan in Public Health Department have reported that nearly 1,036 people were infected with tuberculosis in the province last year. It is estimated that about 9 million people in poor countries are being infected with tuberculosis each year and Afghanistan is one of those
Ariana: More than 150 children died following the outbreak of measles in northeastern Badakhshan province, local officials said Friday. Most of the children who died were living in areas with no access to health services. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Officials at the Ministry of Public Health voiced concerns over the surge in cancer cases, saying that an estimated 16,000 to 20,000 Afghans lose their lives to cancer annually. “In Afghanistan, annually, around 40,000 people are infected by cancer. Around 16,000-20,000 people are losing their lives to the disease annually,” said Mohammad Hussien
8am: Sources confirm that the Taliban in Badakhshan’s Yawan district fined 73 people who did not attend congregational prayers 500 afghanis. Locals said the incident took place on Friday morning, January 21, at the Dasht-e Soleiman Mosque. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Health officials in Badakhshan province said the number of malnourished children has increased. Ahmad Jawid Mohebi, head of the malnutrition department of the Taliban’s public health department for Badakhshan province, told Hasht-e Subh that due to poverty and hunger, the number of malnourished children in Badakhshan had increased about 1.5 times compared to
8am: Locals in Badakhshan confirmed that there has been an armed clash among Taliban fighters in the Maimay District of Badakhshan province. Two Taliban members and a civilian from Shekay district were killed and, at least, four others were injured in the clashes, sources told Hasht-e Subh on Thursday (January 6th). Click here to read
8am: Sources in Badakhshan’s Faizabad city reported an armed clash in the provincial capital. According to locals, the clash lasted for about an hour among Taliban forces in and around Faizabad’s first district. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Abdul Malik Sayyad, known as “Sayyad Badakhshi”, one of the famous poets and writers of Badakhshan, died last night in Fayzabad, the capital of the province. Sayyad Badakhshi has left three books of poetry, his book “The Song of the Poor” has been published and his other two books are still in pen form.