The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) said that over the past two days, unidentified drones entered the airspace of Afghanistan and could be seen in flight above the northern and central provinces.
Sibghatullah Ahmadi, the NRF spokesperson, wrote on Twitter that with the Taliban's control over Afghanistan, this country has become a house without doors and windows.
On Sunday, Afghanistan International sources from Panjshir province sent video clips which had recorded drones flying over Panjshir.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the reports of drones flying over northern Afghanistan.
Taliban officials from the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice barred a female student from participating in the university exam in Kabul. In a social media post, the student alleged that due to the colour of her scarf, she was not allowed to take her tests.
According to her, "We live in a country where the colour of a girl's veil is more important than her fate and future."
However, there is a difference which has emerged between the behavior of the moral police officials and the stance of the Taliban’s Ministry of Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue.
Mohammad Sadiq Akef, the spokesman of the Ministry of Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue said, "A veil or a burqa is a hijab. It does not matter whether the color of the hijab is black or some other colour.”
In a press conference in Kabul, he said on Monday that the hijab should not be tight, narrow, thin, ornate, and fragrant.
At the same time, officials of the Ministry of Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue on Monday presented a one-year report describing the ministry's functions.
At the press conference, Mawlawi Abdur Rahman Munir, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue said that over a thousand complaints have been filed in the ministry in the past year.
Munir did not give details about these complaints, but before this, the Taliban had established strict rules and asked the people to inform this ministry if they see any wrongdoing in the society.
Human rights organisations say that the Taliban's Ministry of Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue has been practicing gender apartheid against Afghan women in the past year.
Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the ministry has imposed extensive restrictions on women's right to education, work, and freedom of movement and social activities.
Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) has established new Sharia faculties across all universities in 17 provinces of Afghanistan, as per the group’s officials who confirmed the reports to Afghanistan International.
Mawlawi Ahmad Taqi, Taliban’s MoHE spokesperson, stated that teaching of Islamic culture has also been increased to 24 credits in every university.
Taliban officials stressed that these changes have been implemented based on the approval of the Taliban leadership.
Afghanistan International had learned earlier that the Taliban was implementing broad changes in the curriculum of Afghan universities.
Sources of Afghanistan International had reported at that time that the Taliban planned to reduce the teaching hours of the main subjects at the colleges and instead, increase the teaching hours of Islamic culture by three times.
At least 14 people have died and 12 others have been injured because of floods in the capital center and some districts of Paktia province, as per Bakhtar, the Taliban-controlled News Agency. The floods have destroyed over 1,000 houses, and 20 acres of agricultural land.
Bakhtar confirmed that 1,435 livestock too had been lost due to these floods.
According to the Taliban officials in Logar province, on Saturday, rain and floods in Khushi district of the province killed at least 14 people, including children and women, and four others were reported as missing.
Over the past few days, heavy rains and floods have continued to batter at least 20 other provinces, including Nangarhar, Laghman, Maidan Wardak and Ghazni.
The Taliban police command in Logar province said on Sunday that most of the victims of the flood in this province have been children. He added that there are nine children and two women among the dead.
Americans broadly oppose recognition of the Taliban government or releasing funds frozen by the United States to that government, as per the results of the 2022 Chicago Council Survey. Few Americans favour recognizing Taliban (14%) or releasing frozen funds to the group (18%).
One of the findings of the survey, which had been conducted between July 15 and August 1, was also that Americans support helping the people of Afghanistan through direct aid and by taking in Afghans leaving the country. There is broad bipartisan support for taking in Afghans who worked with the United States during the war (76% overall), and more limited support for any Afghan fleeing the country (56% overall). Three-quarters (73%) support providing food aid to the Afghan people.
Since the collapse of the US-backed government of Afghanistan in 2021, over 76,000 Afghans have been evacuated to the United States. A majority of Americans (76%), including majorities of Democrats (85%), Independents (78%), and Republicans (67%), support the United States giving refuge to Afghans who worked with the United States during the war. A smaller majority also back acceptance of any Afghan refugees into the United States (56%), but this support is partisan. While seven in 10 Democrats (72%) and over half of Independents (56%) say the United States should accept Afghan refugees, only a third of Republicans agree (34%; 64% oppose).
The survey comes as the Taliban completes a year of ruling the country after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021.
At a time when Afghans are experiencing dire levels of hunger, exacerbated by the slashing of Ukrainian grain exports due to war, bipartisan majorities of Americans support direct aid to the people of Afghanistan. Three-quarters overall (73%), including large majorities of Democrats (82%), Independents (73%), and Republicans (64%), support providing food aid to the Afghan people.
Following the Taliban takeover in 2021, the United States also froze billions in Afghan government funds, a policy tied to the government’s ongoing involvement with al-Qaeda and its now-dead leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Eight in 10 Americans (79%) oppose releasing those frozen funds back to the government of Afghanistan. That opposition is bipartisan, including nine in 10 Republicans (89%) and three-quarters of Independents (75%) and Democrats (74%).
This analysis is based on data from the 2022 Chicago Council Survey of the American public on foreign policy, a project of the Lester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy.
Sources from Panjshir province alleged that a man died when he was being tortured by Taliban members on Friday. Taliban members detained this civilian on Wednesday in Peshghor village of Hesa-e-Awal district, on allegations of fostering ties with the National Resistance Front.
According to the local residents, the man was the father of seven children and was a tribal elder in the Peshghor village.
In the past few months, watchdog groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Affairs, have repeatedly reported that the Taliban members have killed, arrested, and tortured civilians in Panjshir.
While these watchdog groups have called for an independent investigation of human rights violations by the Taliban in Panjshir, the Taliban have not yet given permission to human rights organisations and independent media organisations to visit the province.