report in Daily Times, Feb 3, 2023Pakistan has called for continued “engagement” with the Taliban government in a bid to develop guidelines on human rights, especially women’s rights, in Afghanistan that will conform more closely to the international community’s wishes, saying the old approach of using financial pressure to achieve the objective is not working. “Pakistan and the Islamic countries in the region are working towards that objective of promoting women’s rights,” Ambassador Munir Akram…
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report in Khaama Press on line, Feb 2, 2023Taliban Supreme Court has announced that at least 16 people alleged of different crimes have been flogged in public in southern Helmand Province on Thursday. The alleged individuals accused of different crimes have been lashed in public in the Grishk district of southern Helmand province earlier today, according to the announcement made by the Taliban’s supreme court. The United Nations have described lashing Afghan men and women…
AFP report from Washington, Feb 2, 2023 at 08:49 AMUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan. “I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, repressing women and girls in Afghanistan,” Blinken said…
report in Daily Times, Jan 26, 2023Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram has called for exploring a new strategy of engaging and persuading the Taliban to heed the international community’s concerns over political and human rights in Afghanistan so as to continue the global support for its suffering people. “The strategy that has been followed so far of leveraging international assistance in order to pressurize the Taliban to do what the international community wants,…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press, Jan 26, 2023Taliban authorities rejected the UNOCHA report that Islamic Emirate will collapse due to the prevailing economic and humanitarian crisis in the country. Zabiullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate Spokesperson on Wednesday said on Twitter that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) report that the current Afghanistan administration will collapse due to economic challenges is incorrect. The Islamic Emirate has deep roots; it…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Jan 24, 2023Washington has been reviewing its approach and engagement with the “Taliban in context of many of the human rights violations” and actions that “we have seen from the Taliban in recent weeks and in recent months,” a spokesman for the US Department of State said. US Department of State’s Spokesman, Ned Price said that the US is actively evaluating with allies and partners the appropriate next steps. The…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Jan 24, 2023Taliban authorities have arrested five men including two Chinese nationals over the alleged smuggling of lithium-bearing stones out of the country, according to local sources. In collaboration with their Afghan allies, two Chinese nationals were trying to smuggle precious stones from Afghanistan to China through Pakistan. According to sources, the rocks contained 30 percent lithium, extracted from Nuristan and Kunar, the two provinces sharing a border with…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, January 22nd, 2023UNITED NATIONS: In a clear message to Kabul’s de facto rulers, a UN delegation has warned that isolating women will also isolate Afghanistan and as the country faces a terrible humanitarian crisis, it cannot afford to do so. The high-level UN delegation that visited Afghanistan this week, also urged the international community to support Afghan women. UN legal experts, in another statement, described the “collapse of the rule…
ANI report in Times of India online,Jan 22, 2023 at 12.50 PM ISTWASHINGTON: China is providing modern weaponry to the Taliban in the wake of the recent attack by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) on a hotel in Kabul that mostly housed Chinese nationals, writes Zafar Iqbal Yousafzai, author of The Troubled Triangle: US-Pakistan Relations under the Taliban’s Shadow in The Jamestown Foundation. The move comes as unstable and volatile Afghanistan threatens Chinese interests…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Jan 16, 2023Pakistan is subtly urging the Afghan Taliban leadership to counter the threat posed by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has intensified its strikes in the country in the recent past. However, the efforts by Islamabad have yet to give any meaningful result, and the interim government in Kabul is still sticking to its earlier position that the only way to resolve the TTP issue is…
report in Khaama Press, January 16, 2023Human Rights Watch has called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Taliban-run Afghanistan from ICC membership for the gender-based discrimination policies the ruling regime pursues in the country. Minky Worden, the director of Human Right Watch said that the suspension of Afghanistan cricket from participating in international competitions should remain in place until Afghan women and girls are allowed to participate in education and sports in the…