8am: Officials at Covid-19 treatment Hospitals in Parwan, Kapisa, and Panjshir report the outbreak of a new variant of coronavirus (Omicron) in these provinces. According to them, 70 to 85% of the residents of these provinces are infected with Omicron. Click here to read more (external link). Related New COVID Wave Batters Afghanistan’s Crumbling Health
AFP: In Afghanistan’s Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains. Click here to read more and view photos (external link).
8am: Local sources in Panjshir and Parwan provinces confirm that the building districts of Panjshir’s Dara and Salang of Parwan province have been targeted by rockets. Meanwhile, no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks; however, the Taliban’s police chief for the Salang district in Parwan province blamed members of the National Resistance Front led
8am: According to the source, a fierce clash took place between Taliban forces and members of the Resistance Front for about an hour after a roadside bomb exploded. The source added that Taliban forces arrested some youngsters in the area after the incident, taking them to an unknown location. Click here to read more (external
8am: Local sources in Panjshir province say a Taliban Ranger vehicle was targeted by a magnetic mine in the province. In an interview with Hasht-e Subh, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Resistance Front, claimed that seven Taliban members had been killed and several others wounded in the blast. Click here to read more (external
Michael Hughes AOPNEWS January 1, 2022 Afghan resistance leaders and their supporters appear confident that both military and political efforts to counter the Taliban will eventually spread nationwide amid growing human rights abuses against women and minorities. Amrullah Saleh, who declared himself the “Acting President” of Afghanistan amid the fall of Kabul, has been resolute,
8am: On Thursday, the Taliban’s Department of Information and Culture in Panjshir province announced that the men’s and women’s salons would be separated, adding that playing music at weddings and drinking alcohol in restaurants and hotels in Panjshir would be prevented. Civil activists and residents of Panjshir province, however, said the Taliban are seeking excuses
#تازهآماج به نوارهایی از کشتار غیرنظامیان و توهین به جسدها از سوی طالبان در پنجشیر دست یافت آماج نیوز به نوارهایی خشنی از پنجشیر دست یافته که نشان می‌دهد طالبان شماری از غیرنظامیان را کشته و با بوت به روی جسدها پا می‌گذارند. یادآوری: برخی نوارها به دلیل خشن بودن قابل نشر نیست. pic.twitter.com/mxrYIle9kg —
8am: Local sources in Panjshir province say there has been an armed clash between Taliban forces and Abdul Hamid Khorasani’s men. According to sources, the clash took place after Taliban forces shot and killed a young man in the Anaba district of Panjshir today Sunday afternoon. Click here to read more (external link).
Civilians who live in the occupied main valley of Panjshir are rising up & are raising voices against the Taliban oppressors. They are chanting long live @AhmadMassoud01 & NRF. They are starting a peaceful uprising while their brothers in arms are resisting from the side valleys. pic.twitter.com/HOX38jKuqP — Ali Maisam Nazary (@alinazary) December 26, 2021