Man Who Sold His Mother Arrested in Herat, Says Taliban
The Taliban Police Command in Herat arrested a person who sold his mother for 450,000 Afghanis. The Taliban stated that the man had sold a "married woman" in cooperation with two others.
The Taliban Police Command in Herat arrested a person who sold his mother for 450,000 Afghanis. The Taliban stated that the man had sold a "married woman" in cooperation with two others.
Taliban stressed that the suspects had been arrested from Mir Dawood Gate in Herat city. According to the Taliban, the accused have confessed to their crimes.
After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, there have been various reports of some citizens selling their children due to poverty.
In March, the Washington Post reported about two cases wherein the families in Afghanistan were forced to sell their daughters because of hunger.
Taliban in a statement said that the group has no knowledge of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda’s entry and residence in Afghanistan. The statement has been issued five days after US president Joe Biden confirmed that al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in Kabul.
On Tuesday, the Taliban confirmed the US airstrike on a residential house in Kabul.
The Taliban stressed that the group’s intelligence agencies will investigate thoroughly various aspects of the strike.
The Taliban has emphasized that there are no threats to the United States and other countries from Afghan soil. The Taliban added that this group demands the implementation of the Doha Agreement.
While the Taliban is in denial regarding previous knowledge about al-Zawahiri’s presence in Afghanistan, John Kirby, the US National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, said in a press conference recently that "we have clearly told the Taliban that we know what they did and who they sheltered".
Kirby added that after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed, the Taliban took steps to hide evidence of his presence.
Earlier, the US State Department issued a statement saying that by hosting and sheltering the leader of al-Qaeda in Kabul, the Taliban grossly violated the Doha Agreement. The US State Department stressed that the Taliban also betrayed the Afghan people and their own stated desire for recognition and normalization of relations with the international community.
Taliban has warned that in case of repeated attacks on Afghanistan, the US will be responsible for the consequences.
According to the Doha agreement between the Taliban and the United States, the group has pledged that it will not allow any individual or group, including Al-Qaeda, to use Afghanistan's soil against the United States and its allies.
At least 42 people have died, and 56 others have been injured in the recent floods in Afghanistan, said the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). NRC expressed concern that the recent floods will create more poverty in the country and lead to displacement of Afghans.
According NRC due to last week's floods in Afghanistan, 1,720 houses were destroyed and 3,073 houses were damaged, 12 wheat mills were destroyed and 28 bridges had collapsed. At the same time, over five kilometres of asphalt roads had also been damaged.
NRC estimates that around 18,000 people have been affected by the recent floods in Afghanistan.
In a statement, Neil Turner, the country director of NRC in Afghanistan, acknowledged that the situation in rural Afghanistan was already critical before the flooding. He said that the economic crisis following the Taliban takeover last year has pushed many Afghan farmers into severe debt.
According to him, crops were wiped away and winter was just around the corner and that these communities have zero time to recover.
The statement added that according to the assessment of the United Nations Food Program, Afghanistan is among the six countries whose population is at catastrophic risk of hunger that requires immediate attention.
At the same time, he stressed that the international community should take urgent measures to reduce the damage caused by the current economic restrictions imposed on Afghanistan.
In the first reaction to the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, China has said that counter-terrorism cooperation should not be conducted at the expense of sovereignty of other countries.
Wang Yu, Chinese ambassador in Kabul, quoted Hua Chunying the country’s spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter as saying that there should not be double standards in the fight against terrorism.
Yu also quoted Chunying as saying that the fight should be against all forms of terrorism.
US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday night that the US killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, in a drone strike in Kabul last Sunday. The killing of al-Zawahiri in Kabul has caused widespread international reactions.
The Council of National Resistance for the Salvation of Afghanistan announced that the killing of the leader of Al-Qaeda in Kabul reaffirmed "the depth of the Taliban's connection with the world's terrorist groups".
In a statement, the council said, "Taliban has turned Afghanistan into the capital of terrorism and a safe haven for cross-border terrorists."
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in an American drone attack in Sherpur area of Kabul city on Sunday.
The Council which consists of several senior Afghan leaders and political parties stressed that the killing of al-Zawahiri eliminated all optimism regarding the change in the nature of Taliban.
The Council has emphasized that the Taliban returned to power because of a complex conspiracy and has turned Afghanistan into the "capital of terrorism".
The Council added that the Taliban has taken the Afghan people hostage by providing safe haven to international criminals.
Earlier, the US State Department issued a statement saying that the Taliban severely violated the Doha agreement by sheltering the leader of Al-Qaeda in Kabul.
According to this council, the Taliban's relationship with other terrorist groups has created a real threat to Afghanistan, the region, and the world.
This council has asked the international community to stand by the Afghan people and refuse to cooperate with the Taliban.
Tomas Niklasson, European Union's (EU) special representative for Afghanistan, said that the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul reinforces previous doubts about Taliban's commitments.
Niklasson wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the Taliban had reiterated their commitment at the Tashkent conference that Afghanistan would not become a safe haven for terrorists.
He said that the Taliban had said last week that they are in full control of the Afghan territory in order to convince countries to receive aid for Afghanistan.
He asked the group if the Taliban was unaware, unable or unwilling to take action against the al-Qaeda leader. According to reports, the al-Qaeda leader had been staying at a house owned by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network and the Taliban's interior minister, in Kabul.