As women have held several protests against the Taliban asking for their rights and participation in the incoming government in several provinces in the past week, Kabul witnessed a rare all-women protest supporting the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The university lecturers and students had arranged a gathering in education university before they took to the streets in Kabul. Unlike other demonstrations in Kabul, this is the second all-women protest which was non-violent and the journalists…
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Head of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbadin Hekmatyar said that the interim cabinet of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is the most ideal one he has seen in the past five decades in Afghanistan as it does not include dual passport holders. Though he himself is not part of the cabinet, he has praised the cabinet as it is free of seculars and what he called agents of other countries. Gulbadin Hekmatyar said that the announcement of the…
Even as American and NATO forces and almost the entire Western diplomatic corps packed up and fled the Afghan capital last month as the Taliban seized control, a handful of international aid directors made a decision: They were staying put. They are now the most visible representatives of the decades-long Western development mission in Afghanistan, and along with United Nations humanitarian agencies, are the people on the ground negotiating with the Taliban on working conditions…
The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, morality police roamed the streets, implementing the group’s austere interpretation of Islamic law — with harsh restrictions on women, strictly enforced prayer times and even bans on kite-flying and chess. Nearly 20 years later, the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is back. Following its return to power last month, the Taliban this week formed an interim government, announcing a slate of provisional ministers, all…
The Taliban has moved to tighten its crackdown on escalating protests against its rule, banning any demonstrations that do not have official approval for both the gathering itself and for any slogans that might be used. In the first decree issued by the hardline Islamist group’s new interior ministry, which is led by Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is wanted by the United States on terrorism charges, the Taliban warned opponents that they must secure permission before…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Only one day after the Taliban named an acting cabinet to lead the nation they spent two decades trying to conquer, the dizzying challenges that accompanied victory were coming into sharp relief Wednesday. Tensions flared with neighboring Pakistan. Afghanistan’s longstanding humanitarian crisis deepened. And the militants’ brutal crackdown on dissent threatened to further erode public trust. The Taliban, who witnesses say crushed several small protests around the country on Wednesday, have been…
TOLOnews’ Lotfullah Najafizada sits down with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Taliban military takeover and the future of US-Afghanistan relationship. Full Text: Najafizada: Mr. Secretary! Two decades, trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, was it how it should have been ended? Blinken: I think it is a question I am sure that will be asking and answering through some time to come. But there are few important things…
PARIS (RIA Novosti): The Taliban movement, which announced the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan, does not fulfill the requirements previously put forward by the world community, said a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry . “The demands of the international community, which France has repeatedly reminded of, are very clear: safe and unhindered departure of people wishing to leave Afghanistan, free access to humanitarian aid, renunciation of all ties with terrorist organizations, respect…
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany: The US, EU have termed the “caretaker” government unveiled by the Taliban in Afghanistan as failing to honour vows from the new rulers to include different groups, while Washington underlined the Taliban would have to earn legitimacy from the world, foreign media reported. …….. Standing alongside him (US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US air base in Ramstein, Germany, after leading a 20-nation ministerial meeting on the Afghan crisis),…
MOSCOW (INTERFAX.-RU): Negotiations with the regime in Afghanistan, except for contacts through the Russian embassy in this country, are not planned yet, said the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.During a conversation with journalists on Wedne-sday, Peskov was reminded that a government had been formed in Afghanistan earlier . In this regard, Peskov was asked in what format it is planned to conduct negotiations with the Taliban and who will conduct this dialogue:…
KABUL (INTERFAX.RU): – Representatives of six countries, including Russia, have been invited to the inauguration ceremony of the new government of Afghanistan. This was announced on Twitter on Wednesday by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the country. “We have officially invited representatives of six countries to announce the new government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – China, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Russia and Iran,” he wrote. The day before , Zabiullah…