AFGHANISTAN WEEKLY UPDATE (25th Nov - 1st Dec)

25 November 2024

The Supreme Court of the Taliban announced that the primary court of this group in the Yahya Khel district of Paktika Province had whipped one person on the charge of “moral corruption”.
Karen Decker, the US foreign policy official for Afghanistan, said in a meeting with reporters that the Taliban did not take Kabul with the support of the people.
The Taliban Statistics and Information Department announced that in the month of Scorpio this year, 143,803 electronic ID cards were issued throughout Afghanistan.
Several Afghan protesting women criticized the indifference of the international community in a message on the occasion of the International Day against Violence Against Women.
Sabrina Saqib, a former member of the Afghan parliament, warned at the Halifax international security meeting about the situation in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban.
The contract to import electricity from Tajikistan to Afghanistan was extended for 2025. The Taliban-controlled Breshna Company announced that the contract was signed in Turkey between Abdulbari Omar, the executive chairman of the company, and Mohammad Omar Esazadeh, the head of the Tajikistan Electric Joint Stock Company.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum announced that it sold 10,000 tons of lead and lead from the Yekavalang field in Bamyan for nearly 290 million Afghanis.
The Ministry of Public Affairs of the Taliban announced that the ombudsmen of this ministry have arrested one person on the charge of “witchcraft” in Balkh province.
Sergei Shoigu, the Secretary of the National Security Council of Russia, met Mullah Baradar, the deputy economic minister of the Taliban, during his trip to Kabul.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Amnesty International said that women and girls in Afghanistan are “exposed to the most severe forms of discrimination and systematic abuse” by the Taliban.
The Afghan Women’s Partnership Network has announced that the conditions for Afghan women are serious and worrying after the Taliban regained control of the country.
Afghan journalists in exile in Europe and North America asked Donald Trump, the elected president of the United States, to officially cancel the Doha Agreement.
On the occasion of the International Day against Violence Against Women, the Afghan Women’s Voice movement says that the international community should recognize “gender apartheid” in the country.
The Purple Saturdays movement says that the international community has “failed” in combating violence against women in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban.
Yu Xiaoyong, China’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, met with Amir Khan Motaghi, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban, and invited him to participate in the upcoming meeting of foreign ministers of neighbouring countries.
Sources say that Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada, the absent leader of the Taliban, has taken the authority of all matters related to the governors and commanders of this group from Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Acting Minister of Interior Affairs of the Taliban.
The Afghan Electricity Company (Brashna), which is run by the Taliban, has announced that the contract to import electricity from Tajikistan to the country has been extended for another year.
The Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has asked the Taliban to immediately stop violence against women on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Russian President Putin’s delegation led by Sergei Shoigu, the Secretary General of the National Security Council of this country, travelled to Kabul and added that the name of the Taliban will be removed from Moscow’s list of terrorist groups soon.
Amnesty International says that Afghan women and girls are experiencing the most serious form of discrimination and systematic abuse by the Taliban in four consecutive years.
Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, the Taliban’s Acting Minister of Defense, discussed with the Russian delegation the expansion of cooperation in economic, commercial and security fields.
The Council of Diplomatic Missions and Consulates of Afghanistan has asked the world to recognize the human rights crisis in Afghanistan on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has claimed that a fighter of this group was killed and two others were injured following an attack on the Taliban in Kabul province.
A reliable source says that the Taliban have arrested a former soldier in Bamyan province. According to the sources, his name is Alijan Rezaei, and in the previous regime, he was the commander of the 7th division of the 4th brigade of the 203rd “Thunder” army corps in Logar province.
Sources say that the Taliban have blocked all local schools that were supported by international organizations in Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces.
Richard Bennett, the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur for Afghanistan, says that the Taliban have institutionalized a system of discrimination and repression that amounts to a crime against humanity.

26 November 2024

The Organization for the Protection of Children announced that this organisation’s third plane carrying humanitarian aid, including the referee, has arrived in Afghanistan.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Prohibition of Violence Against Women, the Afghanistan Liberation Front expressed concern about efforts to interact with the Taliban and ignore the group’s actions against women.
Sources said a Chinese delegation of six Chinese diplomats is going to meet Mullah Shirin in Kandahar to share Islamabad’s concerns about the Pakistani Taliban insurgency with the Afghan Taliban leadership.
On a trip to Kabul, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Orchuk told Taliban officials that Moscow wants to participate in the Trans-Afghan railway project.
A day after Sergei Shaigu visited Kabul, some representatives of the Russian Duma presented a draft bill according to which the name of the Taliban could be “temporarily” removed from the Russian list of terrorist groups.
The Inspector General of the United States wrote in a report that the attacks of the opposition fronts do not pose a serious threat to the Taliban and that this group has been able to maintain its military and security dominance in Afghanistan.
The Minister of Trade and Industry of the Taliban left for Istanbul with a delegation of 30 people on Tuesday to participate in the “Halal” International Exhibition.
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Tuesday that the Taliban has arbitrarily arrested journalists 256 times since seizing power three years ago, and urged authorities there to protect the media.
Tariq Ali Bakhit, the envoy of the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in a meeting with Andy McCubry, the British special envoy for Afghanistan, emphasized humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
The Women’s Movement for Freedom, on the occasion of the 16-day global campaign to eliminate violence against women, asked the United Nations to use diplomatic and legal measures against the Taliban.
The Daily Times, referring to the recent visit of Yu Xiaoyong, China’s special representative for Afghanistan, to Islamabad and Kabul reported that Beijing is trying The reduce tensions between the Taliban and Pakistan.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that women and girls in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan face severe restrictions.
Amir Khan Motaghi, the Taliban’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, says that the group is ready to cooperate with the new head of the Iranian embassy in Kabul.
The Afghanistan Liberation Front says on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women that efforts and lobbying efforts to ignore the crimes of the Taliban in the country are worrying.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has helped thousands of families in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan with water management and solar power generation to reach people vulnerable to climate change.
The Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced that the Taliban have arrested at least 256 journalists after they regained control of the country.
The Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced that the Taliban have arrested at least 256 journalists after they regained control of the country.
“Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom” says that the Taliban have issued more than 80 decrees restricting the work and life of women, but the United Nations has only issued declarations.
A source in Kandahar says that Taliban leader Hebatullah Akhundzadeh has refused to meet with the six-member Chinese delegation.
Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council for Afghanistan, on the occasion of the 16-day campaign to prevent gender-based violence, says that the Taliban have increasingly intensified gender-based violence, both physically and psychologically.
Nooruddin Azizi, acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Taliban, has left for Türkiye to participate in the “Istanbul Halal” international exhibition.

27 November 2024

Nuruddin Azizi, acting minister of industry and commerce of the Taliban, has left for Türkiye to participate in the “Istanbul Halal” international exhibition.
Keren Decker, the charge d’affaires of the US Embassy in Afghanistan, says that Washington has important security interests in this country.
Taliban officials in the regional hospital of Herat say that the Turkish Cohesion and Cooperation Organization “TIKA” has helped the critical care department of this hospital with medical equipment.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says that the production of opium in 2024 in Afghanistan has increased compared to last year, and during this year, 433 tons of opium were produced in the country.
Local sources in Herat say that the Taliban have forced the lawyers of this province to implement the law for the sake of this group.
Nouruddin Azizi, the Acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Taliban has invited the Turkish delegation to hold an exhibition of that country’s commercial products in Kabul.
Interior Minister Mohsen Naqvi has warned that from the beginning of the new year, no Afghan will be allowed to stay in this country without a permit.
After the recent efforts of China’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, Yu Xiaoyong, to reduce the tension between the Taliban and Pakistan, Mullah Yaqub Mujahid, the group’s defence minister, met with Islamabad’s ambassador Obaidur Rahman Nizamani in Kabul.
After the publication of the United Nations report on the increase of opium production in 2024 in Afghanistan, the Taliban called this report baseless.
Reliable sources say that the bodies of at least 100 Afghan migrants have been transferred from Iran to Nimroz province in the past two months.
Imanqoli Tasmagambitov, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), says that insecurity in Afghanistan threatens the member countries of this organization.
Sergei Shaygo, the Russian National Security Adviser, in a meeting with Taliban officials in Kabul, has requested the beginning of a process for reconciliation between Afghans. He said that Russia wants to establish lasting peace in Afghanistan and Moscow is ready to help the process of reconciliation between Afghans.
Pakistani media reported that due to the protests of Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters and road closures, the transportation of export and import goods with Afghanistan has been disrupted. According to reports, no goods vehicles have reached Peshawar or Torkham from Punjab in the last four days.
The head of the political committee of the Azadi Front says that the level of attacks by the anti-Taliban fronts has challenged this group’s narrative of national security.
In an article, Human Rights Watch emphasized the need to create an independent international mechanism to collect evidence of human rights violations in Afghanistan and strengthen accountability.
The head of the Russian Security Service (FSB) says that the presence of international terrorist groups in Afghanistan is the biggest danger for the countries of Central Asia.
Mohsen Naqvi, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, announced on Wednesday that after December 31 (11th of Jadi), Afghan citizens are not allowed to stay in Islamabad without an official permit.
The “Military” website, which covers military news in America, chose the book “The Last Commander: The Past and Future Battle of Afghanistan” written by General Sami Sadat as one of the 9 best books in the military field in 2024.
The spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that until the Taliban is removed from the list of terrorist groups in this country, it is impossible to develop relations with this group.
The Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization said on Wednesday that Afghanistan is still a source of serious challenges and threats for the member countries of this organization.
A media support organization called UNAMA’s report on the state of the media incomplete and said that this report does not reflect the dimensions of the media crisis and freedom of expression.

28 November 2024

The Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization emphasized the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan after the meeting of the member states in Astana.
Freedom of Expression House welcomed the publication of the recent United Nations report on media freedom in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, but called it “deficient”.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that the agency has helped 115,600 returnees from Pakistan to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan over the past year.
Local sources in Ghor say that the Taliban “whipped” six people, including four women, on charges of extramarital affairs, adultery and moral corruption in public.
The National Resistance Front claimed that it killed two fighters of this group and wounded another in an attack on the Taliban in Herat province.
The members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization say that they support the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan that represents all ethnic groups.
The National Resistance Front claimed that three fighters of this group were killed and two others were injured following an attack on the Taliban in Kabul.
The National Resistance Front claimed that it attacked Taliban positions in Kabul city twice within half an hour.
Seyed Suleiman Agha Bhair, deputy governor of the Taliban in Nimroz, says that in two months, nearly 100 bodies of Afghan immigrants have been transferred from Iran to Nimroz.
Richard Bennett, the UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Afghanistan, said at the Gender Justice and Accountability Conference in Geneva that the people of Afghanistan deserve global support and that what is happening in Afghanistan hurts everyone’s conscience.
During his recent trip to Kabul, Sergei Shaigu, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council, met separately with the economic and political deputies of the prime minister and the ministers of defence and interior of the Taliban.
Chile, Costa Rica, Spain, France, Luxembourg and Mexico referred the case of violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan to the International Criminal Court.
The governor of the Taliban in Kandahar, on the order of the leader of this group, asked all government departments not to provide the media with information about the financial costs of government projects.
UNICEF announced on Thursday that China donated 1.5 million dollars to the organization’s health projects for children and families in areas affected by natural disasters.
On Thursday, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Vladimir Putin said that Afghanistan is achieving stability. “The situation in Afghanistan is complicated,” the Russian president told reporters. However, we hope to be able to develop our relations with Afghanistan.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban announced that it had whipped 10 people, including two women, in front of the public in three provinces. The defendants have been sentenced from five months to two years in prison.
The Independent wrote that to get out of isolation, Russia proposed removing the Taliban from the list of terrorist groups to increase interaction with this group.
The Association of Afghan Journalists in Exile says that the statistics presented in the UNAMA report about the media are “incomplete and cause the purification of the Taliban.”
The UN Deputy Mission in Afghanistan announced that the inaugural meeting of the anti-narcotics working group was held on Thursday. This working group was formed based on the decisions of the third Doha meeting.
Nader Yarahamdi, the head of the Nationals and Immigrants Affairs Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran, says that one million and 200,000 immigrants without residency documents are deported from Iran every year.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Justice announced that the commission to prevent the group’s land grab has “established the government” of 155.019 acres of land in Shirpur, Kabul.
On Wednesday, Sheikh Mohammed, the President of the United Arab Emirates, accepted the credentials of a number of new ambassadors, including the Taliban ambassador.
Nader Yar Ahmadi, head of the Islamic Republic’s Nationals and Immigrant Affairs Center, says that Afghan refugees are not Iran’s only problem.

29 November 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that deep relations with Afghanistan are related to stability in this country.
Local sources in Helmand report that the bodies of two young men were found in the province.
The Afghanistan Liberation Front has announced that it welcomes the actions of Chile, France, Mexico, Spain, Costa Rica and Luxembourg to refer the Taliban case to the International Criminal Court.
The Guardian newspaper has reported that women beggars were “brutally” raped and beaten after being detained by the Taliban in the prisons of this group.
According to the statistics of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan reaches three and a half million people.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the spokesperson of Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, said that during the protests of Imran Khan’s supporters in Islamabad, Afghan citizens were arrested.
Taliban media activists widely welcomed the advance of rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. By releasing videos of the advance of the rebels of the Syrian writing board, they call the forces of Bashar Assad’s government, Hezbollah and the proxy forces of Iran “rebels”.
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has announced that it will visit several countries, including Afghanistan, in its 2025 program. This committee plans to visit Afghanistan, Mozambique, New Zealand, Peru, Serbia, Burundi, France, and Mexico in this round of trips.
Homeless Afghan women arrested by the Taliban for begging have spoken of “brutal” rapes and beatings in prisons. These women say that they were subjected to sexual abuse, torture and forced labour in prison and witnessed the beating and death of children.
The Ministry of Public Works of the Taliban announced that the Salang highway has been temporarily closed to traffic since Friday noon, the 9th of August, due to snowfall and storm.
The International Criminal Court confirmed that it has received a case of violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan by six countries. While welcoming the referral of this case, the chief prosecutor of this court said that his office’s investigation into the violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan has made significant progress, the results of which will be announced soon.
The United Nations Refugee Agency announced that over the past three years, after the return of the Taliban to power, more than 12,000 Afghans have entered Brazil with humanitarian visas.
The former interior minister of Afghanistan says that the countries of the region may be able to force the Taliban to curb terrorist groups only with the policy of “encouragement and punishment” in the long term.
The UN refugee agency warned that more than 60 million forcibly displaced women and girls around the world are at serious risk of gender-based violence.
The special representative of the Islamic Republic disagreed with the presence of representatives of women and civil society in the anti-narcotics working group of the Doha process.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced the construction of two new schools equipped with solar power systems in Bamyan province.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization says that “terrorist” groups based in Afghanistan are a serious threat to the security of its members.
Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the leader of the Taliban, has issued the transfer order for 17 Taliban officials in the past month. AMO investigations show that there are no new and non-Taliban figures among these 17 people.

30 November 2024

Russian media reported that the country’s forces arrested and deported 15 “illegal” immigrants in the city of Pskov. According to reports, these migrants are citizens of Afghanistan, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan and they were trying to cross the border illegally and go to Europe.
The Union of Human Rights Activists, welcoming the referral of the Afghanistan case to the International Criminal Court, emphasized that the expectation of the Taliban’s adherence to international conventions is a “false idea”.
The Economic Times wrote in a report that 10 countries pose serious risks to travellers due to war, political instability and crimes that occur in them, and these countries should not be visited.
Elon Musk, the owner of the X network, was surprised by a user’s claim of “several billion dollars” of US aid to Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban. Musk wrote: “Did we spend that much money [in Afghanistan after the withdrawal]? wow”
In an article, The Indian Guardian newspaper wrote that senior Taliban officials say that India should improve its relations with the Taliban to weaken Pakistan’s influence in Afghanistan.
Saad Mohseni, the owner of Mobi Media Group, called on the countries of the world to engage with the Taliban before “Afghanistan turns into another North Korea.”
In a meeting with the Taliban’s Minister of Migration, the Chinese ambassador announced the second aid shipment of this country worth 100 million yuan (about 13 million dollars) to Afghanistan.
The spokesperson of the Taliban Ministry of Health announced on the occasion of World AIDS Day that 200 cases of AIDS have been registered in Afghanistan this year.
Ayatollah Rahimi Sighani Bamiani, one of the Shiite scholars of Afghanistan, criticized the desire of some Afghan immigrants living in Iran to participate in the Syrian war.
Badr al-Din Haqqani, the ambassador of the Taliban in the United Arab Emirates, in a meeting with Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Zayed Al Nahyan, the Emir of this country, requested to facilitate the transfer of Afghan prisoners to the country.
The World Food Program says it has provided cash and food to 10.5 million people in Afghanistan this year.
Local sources say that the Taliban moved at least 1,700 cement maps from the warehouses of the house of Fazl Ahmad Manavi, the Minister of Justice of the previous government and a member of the Afghan National Resistance Front, to an unknown location in Panjshir.
Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the absent leader of the Taliban, in a conversation with the security commander of this group in Kandahar, has ordered to establish night patrols to ensure better security in this province.
Some residents of Kapisa say that the Taliban have “usurped” their agricultural lands in this province.
Amir Khan Motaghi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban, in a meeting with Turkish Ambassador to Afghanistan Cenk Onal, called the diplomatic relations with Ankara positive.
Local sources in Panjshir say that the Taliban have ordered the evacuation of several residential houses in the Annaba district to build military bases for Al-Qaeda fighters.

1 December 2024

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center allocated three million dollars to fight against polio in Afghanistan.
The Union of Human Rights Activists has announced that it supports the referral of the Taliban terrorist group’s case to the International Criminal Court.
The Taliban embassy in Islamabad has expressed concern over recent statements by Pakistani officials about Afghan immigrants.
Sources in Ghazni say that Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister, travelled to Ghazni province and distributed cash to the families of the group’s suicide bombers.
Mati-ul-Haq Khalis, the general director of the Taliban’s environmental protection department, has asked to attend regional and global meetings in the fight against climate change.
The World Food Program says that with the arrival of winter, millions of people in Afghanistan are facing extreme hardship and one out of every four families is struggling to get enough food.
Local sources in Kandahar say that the Taliban have imprisoned a young man for publishing the picture of General Razaq, the commander of the former government and an opponent of this group.
Local sources report the arrest of two residents of Abdullahkhel Valley in Panjshir province.
The National Resistance Front claimed that it killed two fighters of this group and wounded another in an attack on the Taliban in Kabul.
Local sources in Panjshir say that the Taliban arrested and imprisoned a former police soldier after crossing the border from Iran.
The Taliban Supreme Court says it has publicly “punished” five people, including a woman, on various charges in Khost.
Local sources in Nangarhar say that a member of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed by unknown armed men in this province.
Local sources say that unknown gunmen attacked the house of a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) member in Kunar province.
The Pakistani army announced today, Sunday, the killing of two security forces and eight militants during clashes that took place between the two sides in the northwest of the country.
Taliban intelligence agents arrested a former soldier and two civilians from Panjshir province on Saturday, November 30, as part of an intensifying crackdown in the region, local sources reported.
The Taliban-run Ministry of Water and Energy signed an agreement with the Chinese contractor working on the Mes Aynak copper mine to conduct feasibility studies for the Baghdara Dam in Kapisa province in the north of Kabul.
Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Acting Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, met today with Mr. Zhao Xing, the Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, in his office.
Afghan security forces have destroyed 12 clandestine drug processing labs and set on fire 46,000 kg of illicit drugs in western Afghanistan’s Ghor province, the office of Deputy Minister of Interior for Counter-Narcotics said in a statement on Sunday.
The Ministry of Energy and Water on Sunday signed an agreement for feasibility, geophysics and geotechnical studies of the Baghdara Dam in Kapisa province with Metallurgical Corp of China (MCC), the contractor of Mes Aynak copper mine.

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