Security officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Nangarhar province said that their special forces have conducted six-hour operations in the provincial capital Jalalabad that inflicted casualties to both parties. As per the officials, the operations that targeted the residence of the target assassin of Daesh (ISIS-K), were carried out in the police district first of the provincial capital. The police commander of Jalalabad city Tahir Mubariz said that the operations that were conducted…
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By Zia ur-Rehman in The NY Times online, Nov. 25, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. ETAKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan — The Taliban have seized Afghanistan, and this school couldn’t be prouder. Darul Uloom Haqqania madrasa, one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest seminaries, has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world. Now its alumni hold key positions in Afghanistan. The school’s critics call it a university of jihad and blame it for helping to sow…
AFP report in Business Recorder, Nov 26, 2021KABUL: More than 1,000 Afghan Shia Hazaras pledged their support Thursday to the country’s new Taliban rulers, insisting that the “dark period” of previous Western-backed governments had ended with the return of the Islamists. Afghanistan’s Hazaras have been persecuted by Sunni Islamists for centuries, but on Thursday community elders gathered in Kabul alongside Taliban leaders in a show of support. Senior Hazara leader and former lawmaker Jafar Mahdawi,…
The writer is a political, security and defence analyst.I t may irk some but look at the TTP Taliban as cousins of the Afghan Taliban. They first hosted the Afghan Taliban in the Waziristan(s) when the US bombed them out of their haunts in Afghanistan and then took inspiration from them to take the nomenclature with its Pakistan-suffix to establish its organisational linkage with the Afghan Taliban. This linkage only strengthened after the Pakistani militant…
KUNDUZ: The Taliban have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan after duping them into believing they would be marrying into money, officials said Tuesday. The man was arrested in northern Jawzjan province late on Monday, Damullah Seraj, the Taliban provincial police chief, told reporters. “We are still in our initial stages of the investigation. We hope to find out more about this case later,” he said. Mohammad Sardar Mubariz,…
Officials of the Passport Directorate said that they will start the issuance of passports in Balkh, Paktia, Kandahar, Kunduz, Herat, Nangarhar, and Khost provinces on Sunday, November 14. Head of the Directorate Alam Gul Haqqani said that the decision was made by the ministry of interior affairs in order to further facilitate the process for those who apply for passports. Alam Gul Haqqani said that priority will be given to those who have already filled…
KANDAHAR: A small carpeted room serves as a makeshift jail for 12 “criminals” who are awaiting Taliban justice, caught in the legal system which the Islamists are building at the heart of their new Afghan regime. None of the prisoners being held on the ground floor of the Taliban headquarters in Panjwai district has yet seen the local judge, who is busy in another area. Until he arrives, the Taliban fighters of the unit in…
Women Protest for Right to Education, Work : :By Farshad Daryush in TOLOnews, Nov 14,2021 at 8:33 PM
Dozens of Afghan women took to the streets on Sunday to demand their right to learn and seek employment under the Islamic Emirate government. Some protestors also criticized the international communities’ silence on Afghanistan, and urged the world and the Islamic Emirate to pay attention to the rights of women. “We can tolerate hunger, living without food, but we cannot tolerate injustice. We ask for freedom and justice in our own country,” said Malikzada, a…
The Justice Ministry of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that they reassess the documents of residential towns, estate dealers, and car dealers in Kabul. The ministry had asked the owners of all residential towns, estates, and car dealers to submit their documents to the ministry of justice for reassessment. The spokesperson of the ministry Muhammad Bashar said that they have extended the time and added that the owners have another seven days to submit…
Kabul: Taliban forces held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday using captured American-made armoured vehicles and Russian helicopters in a display that showed their ongoing transformation from an insurgent force to a regular standing army. The Taliban have used the large stock of weapons and equipment left behind when the former Western-backed government collapsed in August to overhaul their forces. The parade was linked to the graduation of 250 freshly trained soldiers, defence ministry…
Hundreds of the Taliban fighters boarding US-made armored vehicles and supported by Russian helicopters conducted a military parade on the main street of the Afghan capital. The parade was held on Darulaman Street on Sunday afternoon, November 14. Spokesperson of Afghanistan Defense Ministry Enayatullah Khwarazmi said that the military show was held by the newly graduated soldiers. Khawrazmi said that 250 Taliban fighters graduated from 313 central corps in Kabul. This is the Taliban’s second…