AFGHANISTAN WEEKLY UPDATE ( 25 Nov - 1st Dec)

Afghanistan

Weekly Update (11th Nov – 24th Nov)

11 November 2024

At the same time as the aid agencies’ warnings about poverty in Afghanistan increase, the World Food Program (WFP) announced in its October report that 14.8 million Afghans need urgent aid in the coming winter.
The demining organization “Helotrust” has announced that the land contaminated by unexploded mines in Afghanistan has reached more than 65 square kilometres. Meanwhile, nearly two years ago, this area reached 53 square kilometres.
After Khawaja Asif’s statements yesterday; The Taliban reacted to Pakistan’s defence minister’s statement that terrorists are using Afghanistan’s soil against Pakistan and called the insecurity in Pakistan an internal problem of that country.
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai; In a meeting in Kabul, the political deputy of the Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Afghanistan has suffered a lot of losses due to climate change and the use of chemical weapons by the former Soviet and American forces in this country has become the main cause of the climate and environmental crisis.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has claimed that it has killed two fighters of this group in an attack on the Taliban in Parwan Province.
Local sources in Farah say that Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, the Acting Minister of the Taliban, during his visit to this province, asked the people not to believe the “propaganda of the enemies” of this group and to support their regime.
The World Food Program (WFP) announced in its October report that 14.8 million Afghans need urgent aid in the coming winter.
Local sources say that the Taliban are going to build buildings in all the districts of Parwan for the management of good and evil.
The Afghan embassy in Australia has rejected the Taliban’s attempt to stop the embassy’s activities.
The Afghan consulate in the Indian city of Mumbai, which is run by the Taliban, has announced that this representation has started the process of distributing passports to Afghans living in India.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban has announced that it has publicly “punished” two people in Ghazni Province for having an extramarital affair.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan (OCHA) says that Afghanistan is one of the 10 most vulnerable countries to climate change.
Local sources in Herat say that the Taliban have beaten and detained the lord of a village for criticizing the unfair distribution of humanitarian aid in this province.
Sources say that Mohammad Qasim Khalid, the Taliban governor in Nimroz, has asked for help to the needy in a meeting with representatives of domestic and foreign institutions in this province.
The Afghan Journalists Center says that the private radio “Zheman” in Khost province, which was closed by the Taliban five days ago, has resumed its activities.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Good and Prohibition says that it has arrested eight people, including a woman, in Logar Province on charges of “moral corruption”.
Local sources in Ghazni say that the Taliban have punished four people in this province, three of them were arrested on the charge of “lawat”.
The Taliban in Kandahar have announced that they will build a settlement for returning migrants at a cost of more than 12 million Afghanis.
The Taliban Education Department in Kunar says that the building of a school at the cost of two million Afghanis has been put into operation with the financial support of Afghans living abroad.
The Liberation Front of Afghanistan has claimed that it has killed two fighters of this group and wounded another in an attack on the Taliban in Takhar province.

12 November 2024

The World Health Organization has announced that this year, 71 positive cases of polio have been registered in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Local sources in Nangarhar say that unknown gunmen shot a Taliban fighter in this province. According to the sources, after killing the Taliban fighter, unknown gunmen also took his weapon with them.
The Afghan Embassy in Geneva has informed the citizens of the continuation of its activities as usual. According to this representation, its consular services are running normally except on Wednesdays.
Local sources in Nangarhar say that the Taliban have banned all the officials of this group from giving interviews to the media.
Local sources report the arrest of three former government soldiers by the Taliban in Kabul city.
International media reported that Donald Trump, the elected president of the United States, and Mike Waltz, a member of Congress and a veteran of this country’s army in the war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, have been chosen as the White House’s national security adviser.
Iranian authorities have announced the expulsion of more than 23,000 Afghan migrants from the country in the past 8 months and have announced that they entered Afghanistan from the Dogharun border.
While millions of girls are still wishing to go back to school, international organizations have announced the presence of about 9 million Afghan students in the country’s schools next year.
Reuters, quoting unnamed sources, has reported that it is possible that Donald Trump, Marco Rubio; to appoint a Republican senator and one of the opposition figures of the Taliban as the foreign minister of his future government.
Molawi Mati al-Haq Net; The head of the Taliban’s environmental department, who travelled to Azerbaijan as the head of this group’s delegation, says that the fight against climate change requires collective work.
Local sources in Nimroz province in the southwest of the country say that at least three of its occupants were killed after a high-speed car overturned in the vicinity of this province.
International media reported that after several deadly attacks on Chinese citizens in Pakistan, the Chinese government plans to send security forces to protect its citizens in various cities of Pakistan; But Pakistan is against this plan and has demanded China’s help to strengthen its intelligence power.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban has announced that a person in Paktia province in the southeast of the country will be “retaliated” by the people and asked the people of Paktia to watch this punishment at the central stadium of Gardiz city.
An Indian media has reported that the American weapons left in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban are being distributed to militants active in Indian Jammu and Kashmir by the Pakistan Army Intelligence Organization (ISI).
Maulvi Abdul Kabir; The political deputy of the Taliban prime minister, who travelled to Bamyan province, claimed in a statement that the countries of the world have accepted this group as the government of Afghanistan, and all that is left is for them to officially announce this issue.
As winter approaches, the United Nations High Commissioner has announced the construction of hundreds of shelters for earthquake victims in Paktika province.
The new stance of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Taliban’s repeated response to it testifies to the fact that despite the efforts and struggles of the Taliban to change the terrible image of this group in the eyes of other countries, in the eyes of Afghanistan’s neighbours, the Taliban’s rule over this country is the centre of threat.
Even though the Taliban have violated human rights, especially women’s rights, during their three years of rule in Afghanistan, Mohammad Naeem; The ambassador of this group in Qatar participated in the commemoration of World Human Rights Day.

13 November 2024

Molhassan Akhund; The prime minister of the Taliban called drought and population increase the reason for water shortage in the country and said that climate change, drought and population increase have caused water shortage in Afghanistan.
An earthquake occurred around 8:27 on Wednesday night, and based on the announcement of the US Seismological Center, its magnitude was 4.8 on the Richter scale.
Zalmay Khalilzad; The former US special envoy for Afghan peace emphasized in this meeting that the Taliban may retain power in the short term, but they cannot last in the long term.
Maulvi Abdul Kabir; The political deputy of the Taliban prime minister who travelled to Bamyan province in a meeting with the residents and local officials of the former Mujahideen government led by Burhanuddin Rabbani and Sibghatullah Mujadadi; He called Jihadi leaders “un-Islamic”.
Local sources report the protest of hotel owners in the city of Maimane, the capital of Faryab province.
Czech media have announced the invitation of Shahzadgul Ariubi, the Taliban ambassador to the Czech Republic, to the ceremony of the year of the founding of this country.
Mohammad Qasim Khalid, the governor of the Taliban in Nimroz, told the local officials of this group to be coordinated and motivated in implementing the law of enjoining good and forbidding evil.
AFP reported that the German government has not made any changes in the status of political representations in Afghanistan.
Following the introduction of the new American government cabinet, Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, has nominated Peter Hext, a former infantry officer of this country in Afghanistan and Iraq, as the Secretary of Defense.
Following the meeting of the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India in the affairs of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan with some Taliban officials in Kabul, a delegation from this group has travelled to New Delhi to participate in the meeting on administrative regulations of South Asian countries.
Askar Jalalian, the deputy of human rights and international affairs of the Ministry of Justice of Iran and the head of the convict transfer committee, says that this country will hand over 1,000 Afghan prisoners to the Taliban in two months.
Local sources say that the Taliban “executed” a young boy for killing a former Jagjoy of the group in Paktia. According to sources, the executed young man’s name was Ayaz and he was accused of murdering a Taliban fighter named Habibullah.
Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council on Afghanistan, called the “execution” of a young boy by the Taliban in Paktia as horrific and condemned this action.
The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Taliban has claimed that it has reduced the rate of one minute of inter-network telephone calls by 36% and the rate of one GB of Internet by 14%.
Following the increasing restrictions of the Taliban on the media, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of this group, says that they are committed to the freedom of expression and the activities of the media within the framework of “Islamic principles”.
The Office of the UN Deputy Mission in Afghanistan has requested an immediate end to the “death penalty” by the Taliban.
Local sources report the arrest of the young son of Dadkhoda Sharifi, one of the former jihadi commanders, by the Taliban in Parwan.
The World Food Program (WFP) has announced that France has allocated 3.3 million dollars to support children and mothers in Afghanistan.
Sources say that the Taliban are starting the process of collecting weapons in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul and Nimroz provinces.

14 November 2024

The Ministry of Transportation and Aviation of the Taliban announced in a newsletter that direct flights from Khost Airport to Saudi Arabia have started.
The Taliban announced the signing of two memorandums worth more than one million dollars with the humanitarian organization “ActionAid”. The newsletter states that this international organization will provide cash assistance to 1,000 vulnerable families in Kabul and about 1,500 families in Ghor and Bamyan.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan announced that Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, visited Islamabad on Thursday.
Local sources in Kandahar told Afghanistan International that the so-called Ammar’s ombudsmen are checking the images, videos and personal information on the youths’ phones.
The Ministry of Public Health of the Taliban announced on Friday that Noor Jalal Jalali, acting head of the Ministry, went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to participate in a global meeting on “antimicrobial resistance”.
The Taliban Supreme Court announced that the local officials of this court in Nangarhar publicly whipped a woman and 10 men in the Ghanikhel district of this province.
Local officials of the Taliban in Herat province announced the 9th saffron festival at the same time as the start of the harvest season of this plant and said that about forty saffron processing companies participated in this festival and exhibited their products.
The Ministry of Transportation and Aviation of the Taliban has warned of the possibility of heavy rain with thunder and flash floods in 23 provinces of the country including the capital and has also predicted snowfall in high and cold areas.
The Taliban announced the arrival of an Iranian delegation to Kabul and announced that a delegation from Iran’s Ministry of Justice had arrived in Kabul to discuss the “issues of prisoners”.
The American Institute for Global Development has announced that 2.2 million Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran and Pakistan in one year.
Following the emphasis on the formation of an all-inclusive government in Afghanistan and the criticism of the ethnic and ideological structure of the Taliban government, Turkey and Qatar demanded the formation of an all-inclusive government in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Migrants and Returnees under Taliban control announced that Khalil Rahman Haqqani; The head of this ministry with Askar Jalalian; The deputy of human rights and international affairs of the Ministry of Justice of Iran has visited and emphasized that Iran should be patient with Afghan immigrants.
Prominent Kabulov; The special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan affairs, who visited Pakistan, discussed the situation in Afghanistan with the deputy foreign minister of this country.
The investigation committee of the German Parliament in line with the investigation of the Afghan evacuation operation, Olaf Schultz; The chancellor of this country has been called to the parliament to answer the questions of the representatives about the withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan in 1400.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan warned the Taliban officials in Afghanistan to take this country’s request to take action against terrorist groups seriously and not to test Pakistan’s patience.
The British Chewing Scholarship, suspended for Afghan students nearly three months ago, has been reactivated for these students and they can apply for this scholarship.
Pakistan Absarwar has reported, citing the audio tape published by Nooruli Mehsud, the leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), that he is preventing the return of militants from this country to Afghanistan.
In continuation of the Taliban’s restrictions on the media in the country, the Afghan Journalists’ Center has announced that this group has banned local officials in Nangarhar from taking pictures and video interviews with the media.
Local sources in Ghor say that the Taliban have named a religious school in this province after Yahya Sanwar, the slain leader of Hamas.

15 November 2024

Pakistan has warned the Taliban in Afghanistan to take effective and immediate action against terrorist groups, especially the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Increasing corporal punishment in Afghanistan; Taliban have whipped 17 people in the last week.
According to the latest information, a case of polio has been reported in the Baluchistan province of Pakistan, which has increased the number of polio cases in Pakistan to 49 this year. The second largest country in terms of polio cases is Afghanistan, which has reported 23 polio cases this year.
The caretaker government of Afghanistan is trying to return 2 million and 500 thousand internally displaced persons to their homes by launching new programs.
A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman on Thursday warned the Taliban government in Afghanistan to take Islamabad’s demand to fight terrorist groups seriously and need the patience of the Pakistani people.
According to the international news organization, senior civilian, judicial and military officials and the public were also invited to carry out the public execution, including civilians and Interim Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan executed a man convicted of murder by shooting him in a sports stadium on Wednesday, the sixth public execution since they returned to power in 2021
India has agreed to the presence of the Taliban in Mumbai and has appointed Ikramuddin Kamil as the new head of the Afghan consulate in the city.
The Afghan Taliban has rejected the report of the US agency, which said that due to restrictions on women in the Islamic Emirate, there has been an increase in the tendency of depression and suicide among them.
Miran Shah: Five terrorists of the Jaish Umari group were killed in a suicide attack on the Miran Shah centre of Hafiz Gul Bahadur group of Noor Wali group of Taliban.
According to Tasnim, Zalmay Khalilzad, the former special representative of the Trump administration for Afghanistan, said that the implementation of the Doha Agreement could be one of the options of the new American government for Afghanistan.
The officials of the Ministry of Economy of the Taliban group stated in the meeting of the technical committee of the Economic Commission that they employ 700 thousand compatriots.
The Ministry of Health of the Taliban wrote in a newsletter on Friday, 25th of Scorpio, that a medical shipment has arrived in Kabul from Qatar.
The Ministry of Information and Culture of the Taliban announced the holding of the “Intellectual War with the West” test for the youth of Panjshir province.
ISIS Khorasan claimed responsibility for the assassination of Sufi Hameed, a prominent politician of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. This religious politician was killed on Thursday, 24th of Scorpio, in the shooting of armed men near the border of Afghanistan in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Bakhtar News Agency, a media outlet controlled by the Taliban, reported that 201 Afghan migrant families were deported from Iran and Pakistan overnight. The media wrote that 69 families from Pakistan and 132 families from Iran have been returned to Afghanistan.
Reliable sources reported to Afghanistan International that the Taliban have transferred hundreds of prisoners accused of being associated with the Afghan National Resistance Front to Bagram Prison.
Reporters Without Borders announced in a statement that the Taliban have intensified the suppression of the media and the persecution of journalists.
Pakistan’s army chief says the country has established a “robust border management system” to protect its border with Afghanistan from terrorist groups.
Sources in Baghlan say that the Taliban arrested Abdul Rahman, the former commander of the National Resistance Front, and his brother Mohammad Naeem in Pul Khomri city on Wednesday.
Local sources in Parwan say that two people were killed in an armed conflict with the Taliban in this province.
“Diyar” TV, founded by some journalists in exile in Afghanistan, has started broadcasting.
Local sources in Baghlan say that Haji Abdul Rahman, one of the commanders of the Afghan National Resistance Front in Andrab, has been arrested by the Taliban intelligence in this province.
Local sources in Herat say that the Taliban are starting the process of registering the weapons of their commanders and fighters in this province.

16 November 2024

Kiana Haeri, an Iranian-Canadian photographer who has worked in Afghanistan for many years, along with Melissa Cornet, a French researcher in the field of women’s rights who lived in Kabul for several years before the return of the Taliban, travelled to several provinces in Afghanistan in the first half of this year.
Maulvi Amir Khan Motaghi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban group, met with Askar Jalalian, Deputy Minister of Justice of Iran, and asked Iran to treat Afghan immigrants well and be patient with them.
The spokesperson of the Taliban announced that there is no need to create a security belt around Afghanistan and that the security in the country is under control.
The director general of the Iran Health Insurance Organization announced that nearly 200,000 immigrants in this country are covered by this organization’s insurance. Jamshid Shayanfar said that 95,000 people have been insured as vulnerable migrants by the UN Refugee Agency.
Bakhtar News Agency, under the control of the Taliban, reported on Saturday 26 Aqrab that 169 more migrant families returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan. According to the report, these families entered Afghanistan through Torkham Pass, Spinboldak, Silk Bridge and Islam Qala.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Industry and Trade announced an increase in trade with the Islamic Republic. According to the figures provided by this ministry, the value of trade between the Taliban and the Islamic Republic in the last seven months has reached one billion and 827 million dollars.
The administrative assistant of the Supreme Court of the Taliban asked the Islamic Republic to have a “fraternal” relationship with the Afghans.
Pictures of Ahmadullah Vathiq, the Taliban’s head of physical training, showing him surrounded by a circle of his bodyguards at a sports event in Jaguri, have attracted the attention of social media users.
Turkish media reported on Saturday that the country’s police have arrested 27 immigrants without official residence documents who were living in a dilapidated apartment in Çanakkale.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has claimed that it has killed three members of the Taliban in an attack on the Taliban in Kabul.
Local sources in Takhar say that the Taliban are forcibly collecting money from the people under the pretext of repairing and rebuilding the road in the Khaja Bahauddin-Dasht Qala district of this province.
The Afghan Journalists’ Center welcomed the official activity of “Diyar” TV and emphasized the increase of free media abroad.
Some international human rights activists say that after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, human rights violations, especially women’s rights, have increased.
Local sources in Paktika say that five health centres worth 147 thousand US dollars were put into operation in this province.
Local sources in Herat say that the head of the so-called Taliban in this province has prohibited the officials of this group from video interviews with the media.
Nurjalal Jalali, Minister of Public Health of the Taliban, in a meeting with Tedros, Director General of the World Health Organization, requested more cooperation with Afghanistan’s health sector.
Local sources say that the Taliban did not allow the prisoners of two Kapisa residents who were killed in a clash with this group to hold the Fatih ceremony.
The Union of Human Rights Activists condemned the implementation of “execution” by the Taliban and called it a clear violation of international documents and “Islamic principles”
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has claimed that it has attacked the positions of the Taliban in the Keshm and Argoi districts of Badakhshan province, as a result of which one fighter of this group was killed and three others were injured.
Local sources tell Afghanistan International that the Taliban intelligence has arrested Abdul Rashid, the former commander of the local police in Dolatshah Laghman district.
Media figure Ahmed Al-Muslimmani commented on the Taliban’s claim that images of living beings in the media are “haram,” saying: “New nonsense from the Taliban.”

17 November 2024

The deputy head of the Taliban’s political office in Qatar has said that Afghan soil will not be used for terrorist activities of neighbouring countries or other countries.
According to Canada’s CTV News television channel, David Lavery, a retired soldier, was “transferred to an unknown location” by the Taliban shortly after landing in Kabul on Monday.
The Ministry of Public Health under the Taliban administration said in a newsletter that Noor Jalal Jalali, the Taliban’s health minister, in his meeting with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, wanted to strengthen the fight against polio in the country.
Media figure Ahmed Al-Muslimmani presented a report entitled “Portraying living beings in the media is forbidden, new nonsense from the Taliban movement .”
The Ministry of Public Works of the Taliban says that a delegation from this ministry has travelled to Iran to discuss the expansion of railway cooperation.
In response to the concerns of some countries in the region about possible threats from Afghanistan, the Taliban said: There is no need to create a security belt around our country.
The Afghan consulate in the Taliban-controlled Pakistani city of Karachi has announced efforts to free Afghan migrants from prisons in Sindh province, saying thousands of people have been released and transferred to Afghanistan.
The meeting of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the Minister of Refugees and Returnees of the Taliban government, and Askar Jalalian, the deputy of international affairs of the Ministry of Justice of Iran and the head of the committee for the transfer of Afghan prisoners from Iran to Afghanistan, in Kabul.
Local sources in Khost say that a child in this province died due to a Taliban aerial fire during a wedding ceremony.
The Purple Saturdays movement criticizes the approach of the international community towards Afghanistan and says that Taliban lobbyists are once again trying to whitewash this group.
Local sources in Laghman say that the Taliban have arrested a former commander of the local police in this province.
In a statement, the Purple Saturdays movement called for maximum pressure from the international community on the Taliban and considered it a mistake to interact with this group.
On International Student Day, which is celebrated on November 17, Afghan girls under the control of the Taliban have been deprived of the right to education for more than 1,156 days.
Bakhtar News Agency reported that the Taliban in Baghlan Province has conducted an “Emirate Studies” exam for more than a thousand school teachers. Bakhtar wrote that this test was held by the Taliban’s Department of Education in central Baghlan to evaluate the teachers’ knowledge of the Islamic system.
The United Nations Population Fund announced in a note in X that it has provided vital aid to 3.5 million mothers and pregnant women in Afghanistan.
The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar news agency reported that the Chinese company Afchin has started drilling 18 new oil wells in the Amu Darya basin. The state media wrote that these wells are located in the Qashgari, Aghdaria Sarpol and Zamardsai blocks of Jozjan.
The office of Mullah Baradar, the economic deputy of the Taliban prime minister, announced on Sunday the start of a blanket production company in the Pulcharkhi area, east of Kabul.
The Children Protection Organization warned against the humanitarian crisis caused by climate change in Afghanistan. This organization wrote on the X social network that only at the beginning of this year, 38,000 people, half of whom were children, were displaced due to extreme weather conditions in this country.
Pakistani businessmen say the two per cent tax and new restrictions on trade through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have disrupted trade with Afghanistan and Central Asia. They asked Islamabad to create “fair” trade routes to boost trade.
The Ministry of Education of the Taliban announced that according to the order of the leader of this group, Mohammad Sharif Halimi, the former commander of the Paktika Police, was introduced as the head of education of the Taliban in Nangarhar.
AFP reported that this year, 101 foreign citizens, including three Afghans, were executed in Saudi Arabia on various charges.
Davoud Moazzami Gudarzi, one of the Tehran police officials, says that handing over SIM cards and bank cards to Afghan immigrants is a crime and carries a heavy punishment.
The Iranian Sociological Association said on Sunday that the story of Afghan immigrants in Iran is a painful and unheard-of story.
The Ministry of Justice of the Taliban announced on Sunday that it has taken back more than 66 thousand acres of government land in Kabul in the last two years.
Two US officials told NBC News that Trump’s team is preparing a list of former and current senior US officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
China’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Yu Xiaoyong said in an interview that Beijing is not seeking to create a sphere of influence in Afghanistan.

18 November 2024

Local sources report that Nada Mohammad Nadeem, the Minister of Higher Education of the Taliban group, has embezzled $150,000 from the salaries of teachers and employees of Sheikh Zayed University in Khost province, which was funded by the United Arab Emirates.
A senior Taliban diplomat has called on the international community to help Afghanistan recover during a meeting in Kabul, highlighting the devastation caused by decades of conflict.
Local sources in Nangarhar say that the head of the Taliban prison in this province forcibly married a female prisoner.
Local sources in Paktika say that unknown gunmen shot members of a family in this province, as a result of which two children died.
Local sources in Paktika say that two residents of this province were killed and three others were injured following the firing of Pakistani border guards.
Hafiz Naeem-ul-Rehman, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, says that the Taliban will ensure that Afghan soil is not used for “hostile activities” against other countries, especially this country.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced Kuwait’s aid of 500,000 dollars to Afghanistan.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan says it has examined more than one million Afghan children to identify malnutrition.
The Afghan Red Crescent Society, which operates under the Taliban administration, has requested the continuation of the cooperation of the Bill Gates Polio Foundation in Afghanistan.
Local sources in Daikundi say that the Taliban have started the process of registering the weapons of their commanders and fighters in this province.
Ismail Baqaei, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, says without providing exact statistics that a large number of Afghans are imprisoned in this country.
Local sources in Laghman say that the Taliban intelligence has imprisoned three former soldiers on charges of being involved in an explosion.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Economy has announced the donation of 7.63 million dollars from Japan to protect vulnerable people from climate change in Afghanistan.
Local sources in Paktika say that the Taliban have arrested a tribal elder on charges of collaborating with the resistance front in this province.
The National Resistance Front claimed that following an attack on the Taliban in Kabul province, one fighter of this group was killed and another was wounded.
Local sources in Wardak Square say that Nada Mohammad Nadim, the Acting Minister of Higher Education of the Taliban, did not allow journalists to take pictures during his trip to this province.
Thomas Nicholson, the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan, says that the implementation of “execution” by the Taliban is humiliating and against human dignity.
Yama Yari, Afghanistan’s ambassador in Berlin, and Seyyed Lotfollah Sadat, Afghanistan’s consul general in Bin Alman city, resigned from their positions.
Local sources say that Mullah Shirin Akhund, the governor of Taliban in Kandahar, in a meeting with Vijay Sikra, the head of the South Asia division of the United Nations Children’s Organization (UNICEF), requested support for the group’s jihadist schools.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan says that Yu Xiaoyong, the special representative of China in Kabul, discussed peace in Afghanistan with Amina Baloch, the secretary of the ministry.
The Liberation Front of Afghanistan has claimed that it has killed two fighters of this group and injured two others following an attack on the Taliban in Kabul province.

19 November 2024

The Islamic Republic newspaper warned about the danger of the Taliban to the country. A newspaper’s warning about the danger of the Taliban for the country; The alarm of the eastern borders has sounded Trust online The Islamic Republic newspaper warned about the danger of the Taliban for the country.
Al-Mursad, a media affiliated with the Taliban, compared the current situation of the Pakistani government with the last months of Ashraf Ghani’s government in Afghanistan and promised victory to the Pakistani Taliban.
Eight soldiers were killed and seven policemen were kidnapped in two attacks in the northwest late Monday, one of which was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, police and intelligence officials said.
The Taliban stronghold has said in a statement that their officials have requested to hand over Afghanistan’s seat in this organisation to the Taliban in a meeting with the World Health Organization delegation.
Sirajuddin Haqqani; The Taliban’s interior minister says that the group is not against interacting with the world and wants close relations with all countries, but at the same time, he emphasizes that the “colonization of Afghanistan” is not acceptable.
The European Union’s special representative for Afghanistan condemned the execution of a man by the Taliban last week in Paktia province on Monday, November 28.
United Nations reports have documented the Taliban’s military actions against the Shiites, the sudden arrests of Shiite activists, the prohibition of the teaching of Shiite jurisprudence, the ban on the publication and printing of several Shiite books, and the restriction of Shiite religious ceremonies by the Taliban.
The Department of Combating Natural Disasters of the Taliban has announced the signing of a memorandum of cooperation with the Hilotrust demining organisation.
In a recent meeting with Askar Jalalian, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Kabul, Amir Khan Motaghi said: We are grateful for the hospitality of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Afghan immigrants for more than four decades, and we want Iran’s kind and patient behaviour with the immigrants.
Jamhori-e-Islami newspaper: We lost the support of millions of Persian-speaking Afghans due to the support of the country’s officials to the Taliban
Local sources in Kandahar have reported the arrest of Bakhtullah Rigwal, one of the civil activists of this province, by the Taliban.
Local sources in Parwan say that a resident of this province died under the torture of Turkish border forces.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban has announced that it has “punished” a woman in Khost province on the charge of “moral corruption” in public.
Iran’s ambassador and special representative in Afghanistan, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, in a meeting with Molvi Kabir, political deputy of the Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Tehran is ready to complete its half-finished projects in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the economic deputy of the Taliban Ministry, says that this group has started to establish jihadi schools to “promote the religion of Islam” to the citizens of Afghanistan.
Local sources say that the Taliban have arrested and imprisoned the residents of Panjshir in the last two days.
Following the increase in insecurity in Nimroz province, sources say that the Taliban have established a mobile patrol unit in this province.
Officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Taliban discussed opportunities for joint investment in the development of railway infrastructure and increasing transfers through the Khaf-Herat railway.
Shahabuddin Delawar, the head of the Taliban Red Crescent, asked the Bill Gates Foundation to increase its aid to Afghanistan.
In an investigative report, the Guardian described the Taliban’s destruction of thousands of homes in Kabul as an “ethnically motivated” catastrophic purge.
China’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs and Pakistan’s deputy foreign minister had a telephone conversation about Afghanistan on Monday. Yu Xiaoyong and Amina Baloch emphasized the vital role of neighbouring countries in the “peace and stability” of Afghanistan.
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The Afghanistan Liberation Front announced that on Monday, Sham attacked a military vehicle and a Taliban checkpoint in the Chahar Qala district of the city of Kabul.

20 November 2024

Several UN agencies are trying to make Afghanistan’s frozen climate funds available. If this effort is successful, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Development Program will allocate $19 million for climate programs. This budget has been blocked since the Taliban came to power.
On the occasion of International Children’s Day, the European Union Delegation in Afghanistan said that it supports Afghan children through educational, health and protection programs.
The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul says that Hamid Karzai, in his meeting with Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, asked for a regional initiative to solve the problems of the Afghan people.
Oybek Osmanov, the new ambassador of Uzbekistan in Afghanistan, handed over his credentials to Amir Khan Motaghi, the foreign minister of the Taliban.
The Ministry of Affairs informed the Taliban that the ombudsmen of this ministry have arrested 23 people in Kandahar and Nimroz on the charge of “gambling”.
The former vice president of Afghanistan said that the Taliban earns up to 2.8 billion dollars annually, but this group faces a budget deficit of 4 billion dollars. Amrullah Saleh noted that if American aid is cut off, there will be an economic earthquake in Afghanistan.
In a meeting in Ghazni Province, the political deputy of the Taliban Prime Minister claimed that this group has political relations with more than 40 countries.
By intensifying the monitoring of book imports, publishing a list of banned books and collecting these works from libraries, the Taliban seeks to remove books that are against the orders of this group.
Zia Siraj, the former head of Afghanistan’s national security, in response to the increase in unrest in Pakistan, said that the country has ignored warnings about the threat of terrorism.
Lim Guan Eng, the leader of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party, sharply criticized the Taliban Ministry of Education delegation’s visit to this country.
According to the proximity of Iran, Afghanistan and China, the CEO of Iran Railways demanded that the railways of the three countries. Jabar Ali Zakari said that since this proximity reduces the cost of transit and shortens the transit route, Iran proposes a tripartite meeting.
The head of the Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Affairs Center of the Ministry of Interior of Iran said on Wednesday that illegal Afghans have no choice but to return to their country.
Local sources told Afghanistan International on Wednesday that the Taliban in Kunar province have banned live footage.
Sources in Helmand confirm that a local Taliban commander was killed by his wife in Musa Qala district. According to the sources, this Taliban commander was named “Qari Saifullah” and he was killed by his second wife in the “Shor Shurk” area of Musa Qala.
Yama Yari, the ambassador of the former government of Afghanistan in Berlin and Lotfollah Sadat, the consul general of this country in Bonn, say that they have left the official affairs of these two diplomatic authorities in Germany to their “colleagues”.
According to Afghanistan’s Shafqna news agency, Julia Parsi, a former prisoner of the Taliban and responsible for the “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Protesters”, won the Martin Annals Award for Human AsRights Defenders.
After recent speculations and protests about Germany’s desire to hand over Afghanistan’s political representation to the Taliban, it seems that the removal of Afghanistan’s ambassador and consul general in this country is an important step toward achieving this goal.
As the Taliban worsens, the foreign ministry of this country says that it has no proposal to appoint a special representative for Afghanistan.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Development Program, with the financial support of the European Union, have launched a $16.2 million program entitled “Afghanistan Community Resilience Program” to strengthen rural communities in Afghanistan.
At the same time as World Television Day, the Organization for the Protection of Journalists has warned that freedom of expression in Afghanistan is under serious threat and destruction.
Sirajuddin Haqqani; The Taliban’s interior minister called it important to win the people’s trust and said: “Winning the people’s trust is more important than the population of the country.”
While the deportation of Afghan immigrants from Pakistan continues, the country’s media reported on the critical situation of the immigrants.
Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, the Taliban’s Acting Minister of Defense, in a meeting with Kazemi Qomi, the representative of the Iranian President and the head of Tehran’s embassy in Kabul, called for strengthening border cooperation with the Islamic Republic.
Following the criticism of Lim Guan Eng, the leader of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party (DAP), on the visit of the Taliban delegation to this country, the Ministry of Education of Malaysia has supported the hosting of this delegation.
Local sources say that Qadratullah Abu Hamzah, the Taliban governor in Kunar, has banned the photography of government meetings in this province.
The government of Albania has appointed Judge Ruth McCall as the attorney for the payment of compensation to the survivors of war crimes committed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
International media have reported that the Saudi Arabian Relief Organization has provided temporary shelter for 200 families affected by recent floods and returnees in Baghlan.
Local sources in Herat say that the Department of Prohibition and Prohibition of Evil of the Taliban will soon close coffee shops for women in this province.
Sources in Kabul say that Javed Momand, a political expert and university professor, has been released from Taliban custody.
According to the claim of the Taliban in Takhar, this group has arrested three people on the charge of murdering a former soldier in this province.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid for Afghanistan (OCHA) has announced the aid of 50,000 euros to Portugal.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum says that it has tendered two large gold mines in the districts of Raghistan and Badakhshan.
Local sources say that the Taliban in Herat have made religious scholars implement the group’s law of enjoining good and forbidding evil.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban says that it has “whipped” five people in Khost and Samangan provinces on the charge of “moral corruption”.
Local sources say that a former special forces member of the former army was mysteriously murdered in Kapisa province.
The Organization for the Protection of Afghan Journalists stated that without the support of the Afghan media, the future of freedom of expression in this country is in danger.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban’s first Qos announced that this group had lashed three people for extramarital sex in the stadium of Kholam district of Samangan province.
The Chargé d’Affaires of the American Embassy in Afghanistan says that the Taliban’s restrictions on the education of women and girls deprive them of participation in the future of Afghanistan.
Sources from the Taliban Prisons Affairs Directorate confirmed to Afghanistan International that 150 foreign citizens are currently imprisoned in this group’s prisons in Afghanistan.
The Supreme Court of the Taliban announced that the primary court of this group in the Nader Shahkot district of Khost province has whipped a woman and a man on the charge of “moral corruption”.
The research report of the human rights organization “Tolerance” shows that the Taliban has introduced gender stereotypes, violence and discrimination into the education system.
The spokesman of Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that terrorist groups have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and attack Pakistan from there.
On the occasion of World Television Day, the Afghan Journalists Center announced an unprecedented increase in restrictions on televisions in Afghanistan. According to this centre, in the past year, at least 12 televisions have been closed by order of the Taliban or due to the group’s cumbersome regulations.
Sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have increased inspections in Kandahar city.

22 November 2024

On Thursday, Turkish police arrested 30 Afghan refugees and 4 human traffickers in the city of Aghri after checking a truck. Also, the police announced the arrest of 29 Afghan refugees and one Pakistani refugee from an abandoned house in this city.
The Taliban government of Afghanistan has banned non-Islamic or anti-religious books by inspecting books imported from other countries in libraries and other places. Anti-government books have also come under these restrictions.
The economic deputy of the head of the caretaker government of the Taliban said the blocking of Afghanistan’s assets has caused the country’s economic backwardness.
Since the founding of the Ansarullah group, the Tajik Taliban have been based in northern and northeastern Afghanistan, especially in Badakhshan, which borders Tajikistan.
Sardar Mohammad Durdev, deputy foreign minister of Turkmenistan, and Yu Xiaoyong, China’s representative for Afghanistan, discussed Afghanistan in Ashgabat.
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to support efforts to transfer Washington’s Afghan colleagues to the United States.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Public Affairs announced that it has arrested 11 people on charges of “witchcraft” in the past week.
Two diplomatic sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that in a meeting held on November 20, the Taliban’s request to assign the Afghan seat to the group’s representative was rejected.
Sources told Afghanistan International that Hamid Karzai had travelled to Germany for treatment. The former president of Afghanistan had his eye operated on in a hospital in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Hamed Saifi, one of the commanders of the National Resistance Front, says that the situation in Bagram prison is alarming and that the Taliban are “physically and mentally torturing” the members of this front.
Referring to the killing of Sufis in Baghlan, the former Attorney General of Afghanistan accused the Taliban of “violence, hatred, excommunication and killing Muslims in mosques and religious places” and considered this group responsible for the killing.
The Long War Journal wrote in an article that the Afghanistan Liberation Front has expanded its operations in 10 provinces and is conducting more deadly attacks against the Taliban.
Rina Amiri, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Women’s Affairs, congratulated Nila Ebrahimi on winning the International Children’s Peace Award and Julia Parsi on the Martin Annals Human Rights Award.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Taliban announced that the volume of Afghanistan’s trade with Türkiye has reached 94 million dollars in the last ten months.
Freedom of Expression House says on “World Television Day” that after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, the activities of more than 300 media outlets have been stopped.
Dina Titus, a member of the US House of Representatives, announced the approval of the law to support “Afghan allies”.
On the occasion of World Television Day, the activists’ alliance says that the Taliban have issued many restrictive decrees on the media over the past three years.
Local sources in Baghlan say that after the arrest of Haji Abdul Rahman, one of the commanders of the Afghan National Resistance Front in this province, the Taliban arrested four of his sons and two other relatives.
Local sources in Baghlan province say that unknown gunmen shot 12 people “heinously” in this province.
Local sources in Kandahar say that the Taliban arrested the commander of the 13th police district of the previous government in this province.
The Taliban security command in Baghlan confirmed the shooting of 10 worshipers in this province and claimed to have arrested several people in connection with this attack.
Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council for Afghanistan, called Julia Parsi and Nila Ebrahimi’s acceptance of international awards against “gender oppression” inspiring.
After the shooting of about 11 worshipers of the “Sufism Way” in Baghlan, Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council for Afghanistan, says that religious minorities continue to be the target of attacks.
Local sources say that two Afghan citizens were killed by Iranian border guards and another person was wounded.
Local sources in Nimroz say that the Taliban have arrested three people on charges of smuggling explosives from Pakistan in this province.

23 November 2024

The Long War Journal has reported that at least 239 fighters of this group have been killed in 78 attacks by the Afghanistan Liberation Front against the Taliban in different parts of the country this year.
On Friday, the spokesman of the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior announced a shooting at a Sufi place of worship in Baghlan province in northeastern Afghanistan. As a result of this incident, at least ten people were killed.
Local sources in Nimroz and Herat provinces say that the Taliban have arrested six people in these two provinces on charges of extramarital affairs.
A group of human rights activists and Afghan women’s protest movements, in an open letter titled Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, has demanded the immediate cancellation of the Doha agreement between this country and the Taliban.
Following the reactions to the attack by unknown gunmen on a shrine in Baghlan, the office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says that the Taliban must prevent such attacks.
In reaction to the recent attack by unknown gunmen on the shrine of “Syed King Agha” in Baghlan, the Purple Saturdays Movement says that the Taliban have repeatedly prevented the followers of Sufism from visiting this shrine.
The National Resistance Front claimed that it killed 72 Taliban fighters and wounded 43 others in the past month.
Following the deadly attack against Shiites in Parachenar, Pakistan, which left 42 dead, Ayatollah Sistani; In response to this incident, Shia Taqlid authority demanded serious action by Pakistan against terrorists.
Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the absent leader of the Taliban, has changed the name of the group’s “human resources departments” to “personnel affairs department”.
Sources say that the Pakistani police shot an Afghan immigrant in front of his children
The National Resistance Front claimed to have killed two Taliban fighters following an attack in Kabul.
Following the reactions to the attack of armed men on the Sufis of Baghlan Province, the Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) requested the Taliban to investigate this incident.
The American media reported that the promotion of the military rank of an American army commander was stopped due to his departure from Afghanistan and said that the promotion of the military rank of a three-star American general was stopped due to his involvement in the evacuation operation from Afghanistan.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on Sufism worshipers in Nahrin district of Baghlan province.
The Taliban have announced that Yu Xiao Yong; The ambassador and special representative of China, has met with the political deputy of the prime minister of this group after his trip to Pakistan.
The Afghan Red Crescent Society reported that dozens of houses were damaged as a result of floods in Kunduz and announced that the recent floods in the Dasht Archi district of Kunduz province have caused heavy losses to the people of this area.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced that a commercial shipment has arrived directly from China to Balkh Province via railway.
In response to the attack on Sufism followers in Baghlan, the “Afghanistan Liberation Front” has announced that the main perpetrators of this attack are the Taliban.
For the fourth year in a row, the United Nations rejected the request of the Taliban to hand over the seat of Afghanistan to the group’s representative.
The Taliban reported the explosion in Chaharbulak of Balkh province and said that three residential houses were destroyed in an explosion in this district.
According to a report by Fars News Agency, Qudratullah Jamal, deputy minister of tourism at the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture, announced the ministry’s plans to digitize Afghanistan’s tourism industry and provide the necessary facilities for tourism companies.
Several Badakhshan Kyrgyz representatives who have travelled to Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan Province, to solve their problems, say that they are fed up with the lack of health and road facilities, and the extortion of Taliban fighters under the name of user and zakat.

24 November 2024

The governor of the city of Taibad, Iran announced that 10 thousand 285 tons of zinc ore worth 3 million 968 thousand 936 dollars were imported from Afghanistan in the last eight months. Mehdi Shirdel said that these stones were transported from Bamyan to Herat and loaded to Iran.
The Ministry of Migration of the Taliban announced on Saturday that the representatives of this group in Torkham discussed with the border guards of Pakistan the problems of travellers and traffic between the two countries.
The Ministry of Energy of the Taliban announced that 80% of the construction of the Pashdan dam in Herat has been completed and this dam will be put into operation soon.
The European Union office in Afghanistan announced that it condemns the attack on civilians during prayers in Baghlan province.
The Ministry of Finance of the Taliban announced that the Department of Monitoring the Quality of Fuel Materials has returned 60 tankers of low-quality fuel to Iran and Turkmenistan in the past week.
The United Nations announced that the European Union has allocated $16.2 million to support rural communities in Afghanistan.
Mohammad Ashraf Heydari, the former ambassador of Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, warned that India should not betray the Afghan people in their struggle to regain freedom and democracy by interacting with the Taliban.
The Office of the Deputy Economic Director of the Taliban announced that for the exploration, extraction and processing of 21 large mines in Afghanistan, domestic and foreign companies are investing more than 415 billion Afghanis.
In an open letter, the Association of Afghan Journalists in Exile asked Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, to officially cancel the Doha Agreement.
In a meeting with the Russian special representative for Afghanistan, the Taliban’s foreign minister emphasized the importance of communication between the officials of Moscow and the Taliban.
The Taliban Prisons Affairs Administration announced that Maulvi Hafizullah Moqtada has been dismissed as the director of Nangarhar Prisons and Sohail Saeed has been appointed in his place.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan claimed that a fighter of this group was killed after its forces attacked the Taliban in Kapisa.
AFP has reported that in the past three years, a large number of Afghan women and girls have turned to small businesses due to the deprivation of education and work.
The Telegraph newspaper, quoting its sources, reported that in recent months, differences between the officials of this group have increased over the suppression of women by Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the absent leader of the Taliban.
Andrey Rudenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, says that this country has not yet decided to recognize the Taliban.
The United Nations Development Program has announced that this organization, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, has launched a program to support vulnerable farmers in Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban.
The Afghan Women’s Movement for Justice and Freedom on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women says that the Taliban have turned the country into a women’s prison.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has appointed Alireza Begdeli as the new head of the country’s embassy in Afghanistan.
Taliban security officials in Nuristan say that they have arrested three people on the charge of murdering a cleric in this province.
Zamir Kabulov, Putin’s special representative in Afghanistan, says that Moscow plans to send a delegation to Kabul shortly to talk with senior Taliban officials.
The officials of the Taliban in Daikundi province have warned that women should cover their faces to prevent “sedition”.
“Afghanistan Women’s Movement for Justice” has emphasized that they will continue their fight against the Taliban on the occasion of the International Day of Combating Violence Against Women.
The World Health Organization office in Afghanistan has announced the opening of a drug addiction treatment centre for women and children in Balkh province.