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Taliban confirm four killed in Takhar gold mine clashes

7th January, 2026 · admin · Leave a comment

Amu: Abdul Mateen Qani, spokesman for the Taliban-run interior ministry, said three local residents and one employee of a mining company were killed in fighting in Chah Ab district. Five others were wounded, he said. Qani said the Taliban deputy governor for Takhar had travelled to the area to investigate the incident. Mining operations at

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Ethnic descrimination, Gold, Illegal Mining, Life under Taliban rule, Takhar, Taliban looting resources |
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Linguistic Purge from Streets to Universities: How the Taliban Are Translating Proper Names

3rd January, 2026 · admin

8am: For more than four years, the Taliban have systematically erased Persian words and expressions from schools, universities, and even city streets. In recent days, images shared on social media have revealed a new phase of this effort. Taliban authorities have removed urban signboards in Kabul, rearranged text, replaced Persian with Pashto, and gone so

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Destruction of non Pashtun history and culture by Pashtun Taliban, Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtunization, War on Farsi language |
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Taliban Have Sidelined Thousands Of Tajik & Uzbek Fighters

18th December, 2025 · admin

Afghanistan International: The United Nations Security Council says the Taliban have dismissed thousands of their Tajik and Uzbek fighters, particularly in provinces with large Tajik and Uzbek populations. It follows a 20 percent reduction in the group’s security forces. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Pashtunization |
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Admission of Arbitrary Arrests and Torture Fuels Growing Internal Dissent Within the Taliban Over Intelligence Practices

16th December, 2025 · admin

8am: For years, the Taliban repeatedly denied torturing or humiliating prisoners in their detention facilities. An audio document obtained by the Hasht-e Subh Daily challenges those claims. In the recording, a local Taliban official openly confirms that Taliban intelligence tortures detainees and carries out arbitrary arrests. The document reveals that many people are detained and

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Posted in Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Detain and torture by Taliban, Ethnic descrimination, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtun dominated Taliban government, Taliban torture |
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Taliban Shake-Up in Badakhshan: Pashtun-Origin Fighters Seize Control of Border Regions and Mines

9th December, 2025 · admin

8am: The Taliban started replacing their Tajik-origin fighters with Pashtun-origin ones after militants from the group killed five Chinese citizens in Tajikistan. Sources reveal that the group decided to transfer and disarm some Tajik-origin fighters. At the same time, they stripped local Taliban members of duties like collecting mine revenues and distributing land for extraction.

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Ethnic descrimination, Pashtunization, Qari Fasihuddin, Taliban infighting |
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Taliban’s cabinet largely dominated by leaders from Kandahar

16th November, 2025 · admin

Amu: The provincial skew underscores what critics describe as the Taliban’s insular and exclusionary approach to governance. Cabinet roles are overwhelmingly filled by ethnic Pashtuns from the south and southeast, while much of the country — including major provinces such as Kabul, Nangarhar, Herat, and Balkh — are entirely absent from the cabinet’s makeup. Women,

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Political News, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Kandahar, Pashtun dominated Taliban government |
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Removal of the Uzbek Language from Jawzjan University’s Signboard: A Stark Symbol of Taliban Linguistic Discrimination and Hostility

15th November, 2025 · admin

8am: Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, former First Vice President, reacted to the removal of the Uzbek language from the Jawzjan University plaque, stating that this act has further revealed the discriminatory nature of the Taliban. According to him, such measures are an insult to the identity and culture of the country’s Turkic communities and inflict

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Taliban | Tags: Dostum, Ethnic descrimination, Jowzjan, Life under Taliban rule, Pashtunization, Turks in Afghanistan, Uzbek |
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The Cycle of Elites and the Persistence of Tribal Power

10th November, 2025 · admin

8am: For more than a century, since the reign of Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan politics has revolved around a recurring pattern: to preserve stability, the center of power co-opts part of the ethnic elite while sidelining the rest. I call this the “Abdur Rahman Scenario”: concentration at the center, concession at the margins, and the

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, History | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, King Abdur Rahman |
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Clashes over Gold Mine in Badakhshan’s Shahri Buzurg District Leave Casualties

27th October, 2025 · admin

8am: Local sources in Badakhshan province say that clashes over control of a gold mine in the Shahri Buzurg district have resulted in casualties. Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Monday, October 27, that the fighting broke out between forces loyal to Emar, a local Taliban commander in Shahri Buzurg, and the group’s director

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Ethnic Issues | Tags: Badakhshan, Ethnic descrimination, Gold, Taliban looting resources |
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Land Grabbing in Faryab: Taliban Arrest 25 Residents

18th October, 2025 · admin

8am: Local sources in Faryab province report that the Taliban have arrested 25 residents after resisting the confiscation of their land by the provincial governor. The sources said on Saturday, October 18, that Abdul Ahmad Fazli, the Taliban-appointed governor of Faryab, seized land belonging to Tajik residents in the village of Khwaja Ghar, Ghayorzan district,

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Posted in Corruption, Ethnic Issues | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Faryab, Land grabbing, Pashtunization, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan |
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