By Farnaz Fassihi in The NY Times, Apr 28, 2023In a rare show of unity, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning the Taliban’s discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan and called for the country’s leadership to swiftly reverse policies banning education, employment and equal public participation of women and girls. The resolution, co-sponsored by over 90 countries, received 15 yes votes and was unanimously adopted in Russia’s last days…
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By Karoun Demirjian and Eric Schmitt in The NY Times, Apr 26, 2023WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, the White House said on Tuesday. Four senior American officials said that U.S. intelligence analysts became aware in early April that the mastermind of…
report in Khaama Press online, Apr 21, 2023 The Taliban has prohibited women from attending Eid celebrations in two provinces of Afghanistan before the expected large festivities throughout the country. Two similar notifications stated that “it is forbidden for women to go out in groups during the days of Eid ul-Fitr” on Friday in the Takhar in the northeast and the Baghlan province in the north. Only the two provinces, Takhar and Baghlan in Afghanistan,…
By Karoun Demirjian in The NY Times, Apr 20, 2023WASHINGTON — The top inspector general for Afghanistan accused the Biden administration on Wednesday of stonewalling his efforts to procure records about assistance to the country since the U.S. military evacuation, warning that American taxpayer dollars were probably ending up in the hands of the Taliban. “I cannot assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban,” John Sopko, the special…
By Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, April 20th, 2023UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations is ready to take ‘baby steps’ towards recognising the Taliban as it considers options to persuade Afghanistan’s de facto rulers to soften their attitude towards women. For reviewing the option, and its repercussions, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will host a meeting of special envoys for Afghanistan from around the world in Doha on May 1. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told an…
AFP REPORT in Dawn, April 15th, 2023BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said his country is “concerned” about the impact of recent policies introduced by Afghanistan’s Taliban government on the rights of women, state media reported on Friday. Qin’s comments at a regional summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, come after a decision by the conservative Taliban authorities to bar women from working for the United Nations sparked international outrage. “China and other friendly neighbours of Afghanistan…
by Zhao Ziwen in SCMP, Apr 14, 2023China will focus more on economic ties and anti-terror work with Afghanistan, an observer said, citing a position paper released as the Chinese foreign minister began his first trip to Central Asia. The paper repeated Beijing’s shared regional approach towards the Taliban regime but offered little on new policies relating to Afghanistan, according to Zhu Yongbiao, director of the Centre for Afghanistan Studies at Lanzhou University in northwestern…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 11, 2023According to Afghanistan Defense Ministry, Taliban forces killed Akmal Ameer, a prominent anti-Taliban commander, along with his eight comrades in the Parwan province of Afghanistan. The Defense Ministry said that during an operation in the Northern Province of Afghanistan, Parwan killed Akmal Ameer with his eight comrades on Tuesday. The statement added that the forces of the 221st Aftab Unit of the 313th Central Army…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 11, 2023In a press conference on Monday, the Afghanistan Women Protester Movement coalition asked the UN to pressure the de facto government to respect women’s rights. The Press conference by the Women Protester Movement Coalition held in Kabul responded to the Taliban’s recent ban on women’s aid workers in United Nations agencies. The Women’s Movement Coalition protested the UN’s inability to defend women’s rights in the…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, April 07, 2023 at 8:14 PMFollowing the ban of the interim government on the Afghan female staff of UNAMA, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the Taliban’s action and pushed its calls for the ban to be overturned. Speaking to reporters in New York, the US deputy ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood, said Washington considers the ban “basically as another effort by the Taliban to…
By Christina Goldbaum in The NY TIMES, Apr 8, 2023KABUL: The Afghan government this week barred female Afghan employees at the United Nations from working in Afghanistan, according to U.N. officials, a move threatening one of the last lifelines of badly needed aid in a country where millions risk starvation and restrictions on women have hampered aid operations in recent months. The decision this week comes just over three months after the Taliban administration issued…