Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News July 25, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The day the Taliban entered Balkh district, 20 km west of Mazar e Sharif, the capital of Balkh province last month, local radio station Nawbahar shuttered its doors and most of its journalists went into hiding. Within days the station started broadcasting again, but the programming
Frud Bezhan Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 14, 2021 MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — Women banned from going outside alone. Girls barred from attending school. Unmarried women forced to marry fighters. This was life for many Afghans under the Taliban’s brutal regime in the 1990s when the fundamentalist Islamist group conquered much of Afghanistan.
1TV: Taliban militants have forcibly displaced residents and burned homes in northern Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for cooperating with the government, Human Rights Watch said Since May 2021, the Taliban have captured 150 districts in northern provinces, HRW said on Thursday. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban Put Strict Curbs on Women,
Tolo News: Balkh governor Mohammad Farhad Azimi said on Thursday that of the 5,000 fighters that were pledged by political leaders and other influential figures in Balkh as part of the public uprising forces, 1,500 have already been deployed in fighting positions to face the Taliban alongside security forces. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: A mortar round landed inside the residence of Atta Mohammad Noor, the former governor of Balkh province this evening, wounding at least two people, said MP Sayed Zahir Masroor. “The mortar landed while Noor was in a meeting with political leaders, provincial council members and security officials to review the security situation of
Tolo News: The public uprising forces in Afghanistan’s northern Balk province on Thursday said they are ready to clear areas under Taliban control in the province. They said that currently they are engaged in fighting on the frontlines with the Taliban, stating that they await permission from the government to launch offensives against the group.
Radio Free Afghanistan April 14, 2021 At least 10 members of the Afghan security forces were killed in two militant attacks in the country’s north, local officials and the army said on April 13. In northern Baghlan Province, at least five police officers were killed and four were wounded when their checkpoint came under attack
By Radio Free Afghanistan February 13, 2021 At least five policemen have been killed and 12 wounded in two attacks in Afghanistan, officials said on February 13. A Taliban suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a security checkpoint in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on February 13, wounding 12 policemen, the Interior Ministry said. Ministry
A weekly newspaper run by a team of female journalists is thriving in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, despite threats against journalists in parts of the country. Gulrahim Niazman from VOA’s Afghan service has more in the report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.
Ariana: President Ashraf Ghani has threatened to fire security chiefs in Balkh province if they fail to locate and rescue the abducted nine-year-old boy, Abdul Rauf. Abdul Rauf was kidnapped three months ago, by armed men in military uniforms, from PD4 of Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh. Click here to read more (external link).