KABUL — The Taliban imposed further restrictions on female city government employees in Afghanistan’s capital on Thursday, barring many from returning to work next week in a sign that the group will continue to restrict women’s rights despite two decades of freedoms under the previous government. Neamatullah Barakzai, the Taliban’s head of public awareness for the Kabul municipality, said many female city employees were told not to come to their jobs while officials prepare a…
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KABUL: The Taliban struck several journalists to prevent media coverage of a women’s rights protest in Kabul Thursday. A group of about 20 women marched from near the ministry of education to the ministry of finance in the Afghan capital. Wearing colourful headscarves they shouted slogans including: “Don’t politicise education”, as traffic drove by shortly before 10 am. The women held placards saying: “We don’t have the rights to study and work”, and “Joblessness, poverty,…
At least 20 women took the streets of Kabul on Thursday and protested against the Taliban for not opening the doors of schools for girls. The all-women protest which was staged in front of the ministry of education, turned violent with the Taliban as the latter started beating journalists and women. Though the protest was peaceful and the Taliban allowed the protestors to walk from the ministry of education to the ministry of finance, turned…
An explosion brought down electricity lines and cut off power to Kabul on Thursday, in a further blow to Taliban efforts to stabilise Afghanistan two months after they seized control. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but if it is confirmed as an attack it will be further evidence that hardline militants are turning the former rebel Taliban’s own insurgent tactics against them. “Moments ago, an explosion blew up a power pylon…
Third Moscow Format on Afghanistan released a joint statement after concluding the meeting saying that the Taliban are now new authorities in Afghanistan and acknowledged that the member states will interact with them respectfully. The member states in their joint statement promised to respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Afghanistan. The Moscow Format hosted by Russia was attended by Pakistan, Iran, India, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan concluded on Wednesday, October…
Tajikistan does not often make it into the world news, but has begun to appear there regularly in recent weeks. The reason is the tough position taken by the Tajik authorities with regard to the situation in Afghanistan, where the Taliban recently came to power. It would seem that everything should be the other way around. If anyone in Central Asia needs to worry about good relations with the Taliban, it is Tajikistan. The Tajik…
KABUL (Reuters): Former Taliban fighter Mohammad Ishaq, who spent years battling Western troops and local forces in Afghanistan, lost his leg in combat and is now learning to walk with a new limb. Standing near him at a Kabul clinic is one of the soldiers he defeated. In the Red Cross Hospital in Kabul, Ishaq spoke simply of the eight years he spent in Helmand, the southern province where some of the fiercest fighting of…
More than 250 fighters affiliated with Daesh were arrested within the past month, officials said, adding that many of them are the prisoners who had fled from the prisons across the country. “250 individuals affiliated with Daesh have been arrested. They were those who fled from the prisons,” he said. “Some of their plans were to carry out blasts but the plans failed, tens of their attacks were thwarted.” Daesh took responsibility for the two…
MOSCOW: The Taliban agreed Wednesday to work with Russia, China and Iran on regional security after the Kremlin warned of emerging Islamic State and drug-trafficking threats in the wake of the hardline group´s takeover in Afghanistan. During talks in the Russian capital 10 participating countries also called for “urgent” humanitarian aid for Afghans and said countries that recently withdrew troops from Afghanistan should fund reconstruction efforts. The talks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned…
Afghanistan’s acting minister of interior affairs Sarajudin Haqqani met with the families of the suicide bombers who conducted attacks in the past two decades in Afghanistan targeting foreign and Afghan troops. The parents were asked to gather in Kabul’s luxury hotel- Intercontinental- that was targeted by Taliban’s suicide bombers several times. Spokesperson of the interior ministry Saeed Khostai in a twitter post said that the parents were given 10,000 AFS ($110), clothes, and were pledged…
Russia, China and Pakistan are willing to provide aid to Afghanistan, the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday, but Moscow said it was not yet ready to recognise the Taliban government. The promise of humanitarian aid and economic support came after talks between Russian, Chinese and Pakistani officials, who will be joined by representatives of Afghanistan’s rulers at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia was withholding recognition…