By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, April 6, 2023Three journalists were arrested by the Taliban forces in Baghlan province in Northern Afghanistan, local sources said. Three journalists, including two reporters from Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and a journalist for the private TV Tanwir, were arrested from their area in Pule-e-Khumri, the capital city of Baghlan province, on Thursday morning. Ghulam Ali Wahdat, a journalist for Tanwir TV, Safiullah Wafa and Noor Agha, reporters from…
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AFP report, 07 Apr 2023The White House on Thursday released a long-awaited review of the traumatic US exit from Afghanistan, admitting there had been a massive intelligence failure in not predicting rapid Taliban victory, but defending overall US conduct. “Clearly we didn’t get things right” on intelligence, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters after the still classified report was sent to Congress. But “ending a war, any war, is not an easy endeavor,…
AFP report, April 5, 2023KABUL: Afghan women who are United Nations employees have been blocked from work in eastern Nangarhar province, the UN mission said on Tuesday, warning Taliban authorities its aid programmes are impossible without its staff. In December, Taliban officials ordered all foreign and domestic NGOs to stop women personnel working across the crisis-stricken nation. Several suspended their entire operations in protest, piling further misery on Afghanistan’s 38 million citizens, half of whom…
report in Khaama Press online,April 3, 2023The Intelligence Department has announced the arrest of one of the perpetrators involved in several deadly attacks in the Balkh province of Afghanistan, including the assassination of Mohammad Dawood Muzamal, governor of Balkh, on Sunday. The department aired the “confessions” of a young person saying he was involved in at least five attacks, including the governor of Balkh, Tebyan centre and several Shiite centres in Mazar-e-Sharif. According to the…
AFP Report in Dawn, April 3rd, 2023LONDON: Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman on Sunday said the UK government was “in negotiations” after three British men were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Media reports have identified the men as charity medic Kevin Cornwell, 53, the unnamed manager of a hotel for aid workers and YouTuber Miles Routledge. “The government is in negotiations and working hard to ensure people’s safety is upheld,” Braverman told Sky News.…
by Nadeem Badshah in The Guardian, Apr 3, 2023The families of two British men held in custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been able to speak to them for the first time since their arrest. Kevin Cornwell, a 53-year-old charity medic, and another British national, who has not been named, were detained by the Taliban’s secret police on 11 January. Another Briton being held is Miles Routledge, 23, who returned to the country after…
report in Khaama Press online, Apr 1, 2023Former military doctor Shabir Shirzad who served former Afghan intelligence agency, was shot dead by Taliban forces in Northern Parwan province on Friday evening, local sources confirmed. A former military doctor, aged 32, while he was heading to the capital city of Kabul, Taliban took him out of his vehicle and shot him in Ghorband district on Friday around 6:00 Pm local time; his brother has confirmed the…
report in The Guardian, Apr 1, 2023 at 22.23 BSTThree British men including a charity medic and a self-styled “danger tourist” are being held in custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan, it has been reported. The Mail on Sunday said Kevin Cornwell, a 53-year-old charity medic, and another British national who manages a hotel for aid workers in Kabul, who has not been named, were detained by the Taliban’s secret police in January. The other…
by Rajeev Syal, Home affairs editor, in The Guardian, Apr 1, 2023An Afghan who worked with the British Council and is applying to come to the UK has been told to retrieve documents from the Taliban or risk rejection, despite assurances earlier this month that such demands would end. The Ministry of Defence apologised on 18 March after an investigation found that applicants to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy (Arap) scheme were required to…
By Fidel Rahmati IN Khaama Press, March 28, 2023Matiullah Wesa, the well-known human rights activist who advocated for girls’ education and the founder of Pen Path, was detained by the Taliban on Monday, his brother confirmed. His brother Ataullah Wesa claimed that Wesa was detained by the Taliban close to their house in the Khoshal Khan Area west of Kabul, while the Taliban rejected the allegation. Wesa was an education and human rights activist who…