By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, July 10, 2023 at 8:59 PMIslamic Emirate spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Twitter denied the remarks of the US House of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, who said the “Taliban” is selling weapons left behind by foreign troops to Washington’s “adversaries like Iran and the Palestinians against Israel.” In an interview with the CNN’s State of the Union program, Mc Caul claimed that the “Taliban” are selling the weapons left…
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report in Khaama Press online, July 7, 2023Kremlin’s Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Taliban’s participation in future Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meetings depends on the consensus of the SCO member states. Previously, Taliban authorities had asked Shanghai Cooperation Organization to invite the group’s representative to the future SCO meeting to be held in Kazakhstan. While preparing for the next round of the SCO summit, Dmitry Peskov on Thursday said that the Taliban’s request will also…
report in Khaama Press online, July 7, 2023Kremlin’s Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Taliban’s participation in future Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meetings depends on the consensus of the SCO member states. Previously, Taliban authorities had asked Shanghai Cooperation Organization to invite the group’s representative to the future SCO meeting to be held in Kazakhstan. While preparing for the next round of the SCO summit, Dmitry Peskov on Thursday said that the Taliban’s request will also…
UN Will Hold Another Crucial Afghanistan Talks in Doha; Taliban Representatives Will Also Be Invited
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 6, 2023Scott Smith, Head of the United Nations political office in Afghanistan, announced during a meeting at ARG that a new Doha summit is being prepared and that, this time, representatives of the current regime will be invited to attend. He pointed out that the meeting will be scheduled before the end of this year. Smith assured the de factor authorities that the international community would continue…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, July 6th, 2023UNITED NATIONS: Religious scholars from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Indonesia are trying to convince Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers that Islam does not ban women from going to school or work, says the UN mission chief in Afghanistan. In an interview with UN News, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) acting chief Markus Poztel said the United Nations should work as a “bridge builder” in a very complex setting…
AFP report in Dawn, July 5th, 2023KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed on Tuesday, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life. The order will force the closure of thousands of businesses run by women — often the only source of income for households — and outlaw one of the few remaining opportunities for them to socialise away from…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, June 28, 2023According to a statement from the Supreme Court, 2,178 prisoners have been freed ahead of Eid al Adha based on the decree of the Taliban Supreme leader. The statement also said that at least 489 other prisoners were given reduced sentences for Eid. Meanwhile, at least 118 prisoners were freed from the provincial prisons on Monday, according to Helmand province’s deputy head of information and culture. According…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, June 26, 2023The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that Afghanistan produced the majority of global illicit opium production in 2022, which makes 80%, despite the Taliban’s ban on opium cultivation in April last year. The report released a day before the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, said that the supply and trafficking of illegal drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamine, have increased…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, June 19, 2023Reports emerged that Reza Shaheer, a leading journalist of ‘Rah-e-Farda’ TV channel who had freshly returned from Iran, was arrested in Zabul and taken to an unknown place, while Taliban provincial officials rejected his arrest. Previously, Reza Shaheer had been detained by the de facto authorities of Afghanistan, which forced him to move to Iran to get a French visa. Upon his return from Iran,…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, June 19, 2023A UN expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid, given how severely the de facto authorities of the country continue to violate their rights. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed similar concerns on the opening day of the Council’s summer session, adding that the de facto authorities had “dismantled the most…