By Naveed Hussain in T-magazine, Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023The recent dramatic uptick in terrorist violence has again shone the spotlight on the safe havens of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group in Afghanistan. “Average TTP attacks per month increased from 14.5 in 2020 to 45.8 in 2022 and expanded in geographical scope, reflecting increased operability and improved weaponry acquired when the Afghan government collapsed in August 2021,” according to the Global Conflict Tracker. Official…
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report in The Frontier Post. Dec 28, 2023KABUL: After the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, girls were barred from attending school, with only children up to the sixth grade permitted to continue their primary education. Consequently, secret girls’ schools have been established across Afghanistan to continue education for those deprived of further study by the Taliban’s decree.According to the Seattle Times, the non-profit organization Sahar, based in Seattle, USA, supports dozens of these clandestine schools…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 23, 2023The United Nations reports that despite a decrease in conflicts in Afghanistan, children remain in an extremely vulnerable situation. The organization has called on the Taliban to recognize individuals under 18 years old as children and prevent their recruitment into security forces. The United Nations in a report released on Friday, has stated that over two years, from the beginning of 2021 to the end of 2022, a…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: A powerful United Nations panel, which approves the accreditation of diplomats to its system, has refused to assign the Afghan Taliban a seat at the world body. This was the third time a nine-member UN credential committee rejected a request by the interim Afghan Taliban to assign a seat to its representative at the UN. After the takeover in Aug 2021, the interim Taliban government…
By Noman Hossain in Khaama Press on;ine, Dec 14, 2023Pakistan has let out its worst-kept secret that the top mujahideen personnel of its anti-Russian and, later, anti-US campaigns in Afghanistan, some of whom are Taliban now in power, carried the privileged ‘green’ Pakistani passports. The dramatic ‘disclosure’ that Sirajuddin Haqqani, Interior Minister in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, was holding a Pakistani passport and that it had been cancelled, which, according to analysts, is a part of Pakistan’s…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 13, 2023The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has published its quarterly report on the status of women under the rule of the Taliban administration. The report highlights women’s calls for increased international pressure on the Taliban. The UNAMA report, released on Tuesday, reveals that the UNAMA office, the International Organization for Migration, and the UN Women’s Unit have recently conducted in-person and online consultations with 462 women…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 11, 2023 at 9:02 PMThe UN special rapporteur for Afghan human rights, Richard Bennett stressed the importance of girls’ education in Afghanistan, saying that the Taliban have disagreements over the issue of girls education in Afghanistan. Speaking to a panel in the Doha Forum, Bennett indicated the former Minister of Higher Education’s stance regarding female universities and said: “I remember having a meeting with the minister of higher education. This…
report in Dawn, December 12th, 2023AROUND 200 Afghan special forces personnel, stranded in Pakistan while awaiting relocation to the UK, are facing deportation back to the country they escaped from in 2021, according to BBC. The report says the personnel, trained and funded by the UK, fled to Pakistan after the Afghan Taliban took over Kabul. The fears for the Afghan commandos come as it was revealed the government also rejected calls from senior British…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 10, 2023The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called upon the authorities in Afghanistan on the occasion of “World Human Rights Day” to embrace human rights commitments as the cornerstone of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous future, and to lend their full support to it. On Saturday, UNAMA reiterated its commitment to the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan by issuing a statement on…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 07, 2023 at 9:32 PMAmnesty International called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prioritize and accelerate the delivery of justice for victims of crimes committed by the Taliban, as well as by other actors in Afghanistan. In part of the declaration of Amnesty International, it stated that the delivery of justice for the victims of war crimes should be accelerated. The statement said: “The International Criminal Court (ICC) must…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Dec 7, 2023ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani was among thousands of Afghan citizens who had Pakistani passports until recently. The News has learnt from interior ministry officials that these passports were issued from different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh. Haqqani was issued a Pakistani passport for five years which he used to travel abroad, particularly to Qatar for negotiations with the United States for the signing…