By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, June 18, 2023In response to the US Department of State’s latest report on human trafficking in Afghanistan, Taliban’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said, human trafficking is done beyond the borders and “preventing it is not our responsibility”. Mr. Mujahid on Saturday in a tweet said, human trafficking is conducted beyond the borders of Afghanistan, and the caretaker regime is not responsible for its prevention. He further reiterated that…
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By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,June 19, 2023Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the special representative of Iran to Afghanistan met with Bakht-ur- Rahman Sharafat, the head of the Taliban railway administration, and discussed possible areas of cooperation. The Embassy of Iran to Kabul has said that the two sides discussed railway cooperation and utilization of the Khaf-Herat railway, a railway linking the two sanctioned countries t to the global markets via China. The Iranian Embassy in Kabul…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, June 18, 2023Heather Barr, the associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch described the ‘Doha Agreement between the US and Taliban’ as less transparent and incomprehensive, adding the deal excluded Afghan women from political engagement to a great extent. Heather Barr on Saturday in a tweet accused Zalmy Khalilzad, the former US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation of undermining women’s rights in the…
By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews, June 16, 2023 at 11:03 PMThe Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that as long as the current Afghan officials are not recognized by the world, no ambassador can work in the Afghan embassy in Russia. In an interview with Russian media outlet RTVI, Kabulov also noted that the current government in Afghanistan is not inclusive. “Officially, the officials of the current Afghan government are not recognized, which…
By Christina Goldbaum and Safiullah Padshah in The NY Times, June 18, 2023Kabul: Late one night two months ago, a team of Taliban security officers assembled on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital to prepare for a raid on an Islamic State hide-out. As the zero hour approached, the men fiddled with their automatic rifles while their leader, Habib Rahman Inqayad, scrambled to get the exact location of their target. He grabbed his colleagues’ phones and…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, June 17, 2023The US Department of State on Thursday published its annual report on the situation of human trafficking around the world, in which Afghanistan is among the worst countries in human trafficking. According to the newly published report, millions of people are exploited every year by human trafficking groups. In the 2023 report of the US Department of State, Afghanistan and ten other countries are among the…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 16, 2023 at 10:53 PMA report authored by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan Richard Bennett, and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, indicated “widespread and systematic discrimination to which women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected.” According to the report, between September 2021 and May 2023, more than 50 edicts were issued regarding women and girls by the Islamic Emirate, which has “deprived Afghan women…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 17, 2023Islamabad has reached an agreement with the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior to relocate Tehreek-t-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members from the border of the two countries to western Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani official on conditions of anonymity told Anadolu news agency. The Pakistani government will bear the financial costs of relocating TTP members to the western parts of Afghanistan, the source said. “The Pakistani government and Taliban administration have…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 16, 2023 at 10:53 PMA report authored by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan Richard Bennett, and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, indicated “widespread and systematic discrimination to which women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected.” According to the report, between September 2021 and May 2023, more than 50 edicts were issued regarding women and girls by the Islamic Emirate, which has “deprived Afghan women…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, June 15, 2023 at 9:21 PMActing Minister of Defense Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid denied claims of disputes within the Islamic Emirate and said that any disputes that harm the system do not exist in the Islamic Emirate government. In an interview with TOLOnews, Yaqoob Mujahid emphasized that reports made by international organizations concerning violations of human rights in Panjshir are untrue. “I have worked and served for a very…