Afghanistan’s medical council in a statement said that unknown individuals killed Shukria Alokozai, a female doctor. Dr. Alokozai had been working in the maternal section of 102-bed hospital in Khair khana area of Kabul.
Alokozai’s dead body was found in Panjsad Famili area of Kabul on Wednesday, August 31.
Afghanistan’s medical council in their statement on Thursday, September 1, expressed their condolences.
Taliban’s officials have not commented on the issue and the identity of the attacker is also not clear yet.
Since Taliban’s takeover, a large number of female practitioners and civil society members have been killed mysteriously.
Two Taliban members have allegedly sexually assaulted a teenager on the outskirts of Jalalabad city, local sources said. The victim's father has requested officials of Nangarhar province to punish the perpetrators, according to documents obtained by Afghanistan International.
In the documents, it has been stated that two Taliban men sexually assaulted a boy at a farm.
A source told Afghanistan International that the two who have been accused of the rape, are members of a Taliban police station on the outskirts of Jalalabad city.
They started to form friendly relations with this boy a month ago, and on Saturday afternoon last week, they took him to a farm and sexually assaulted him.
A social activist in the city said that such incidents have repeatedly taken place, but some victims remain silent for various reasons.
In recent days, Qari Saeed Khosty, the former spokesperson of the Taliban's Ministry of Interior, has also been accused of sexually assaulting a female student.
Previously, a Taliban commander in Ghor Province was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting his bodyguard and then, was released as well.
Over 110,600 people have been affected by floods in 2022 across Afghanistan, stated UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in its latest report released on Thursday.
The report also stated that 2022 saw the lowest level of spring flooding as compared to the past five years, but witnessed a surge in atypical floods during the summer season (June-August).
OCHA in its report added that more than half of the flooding incidents (56%) and more than a third of the affected families (36%) were recorded in the eastern region of the country.
“The 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) had already accounted for a proportion of the population to be affected by sudden-onset emergencies throughout the year and the provision of emergency assistance is part of ongoing response activities under the 2022 HRP. Partners had already been delivering humanitarian assistance in flood-affected areas and have pivoted existing supply stocks and services to reach flood affected communities,” the report stated.
OCHA said that while supplies for short-term emergency assistance are mostly available, complementary development support to rebuild destroyed houses and service infrastructure; restore livelihoods through livestock and grain replenishment; and put in place preventive investments (for example, the building of dams or establishment of early warning systems) can mitigate prolonged suffering and avert further risks of double exposure to natural disasters and climate-related shocks.
Taliban has announced that since their takeover last year, they have distributed electronic IDs to more than 2 million Afghans. Taliban’s Statistics and Information Directorate said that distribution of electronic IDs had collected 1 billion and 67 million Afs in revenue.
Bakhtar News Agency, quoted the Taliban officials as saying that the income through electronic ID distribution has been deposited to the Taliban’s government account.
E-IDs are currently being distributed across the country while former government officials have expressed concerns about the issuance of Afghanistan citizenship to the terrorist groups’ members.
Massoud Andarabi, former minister of interior in the previous government, said, “The Taliban is distributing Afghanistan IDs and passports to international terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, in order to conceal their connections with them.”
Andarabi claimed that the Taliban started this initiative after the advice of their trusted circles among the Pakistan military.
Taliban’s Statistics and Information Directorate said that there are 73 centers for E-ID distribution across Afghanistan and this could boost the distribution process further.
According to reports, the increase in demand for IDs has been for the purpose of getting passports in order to leave Afghanistan.
Earlier, it had been reported that Mullah Hassan Akhund, Taliban’s prime minister, had ordered the group officials to distribute passports with paper IDs as well due to an increase in the demand for passports. The previous government had banned passport distribution with paper IDs.
Electronic ID distribution had begun in April 2018 and Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s fugitive president, was the first to receive it.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced that the group has fought foreign forces along with the Afghan Taliban. In a statement, TTP stressed that many suicide attackers of the group had been killed in the war in Afghanistan to prove the group’s loyalty to the Taliban.
TTP congratulated the Taliban on the first anniversary of the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan.
TTP has emphasised that it will prove its loyalty to the Afghan Taliban in the future too. TTP and the Afghan Taliban enjoy a close relationship. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban also increased its attacks against the Pakistani government, especially the Pakistan army.
According to reports, after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the senior leaders of the TTP have been stationed in Afghanistan. Over the past year, the Afghan Taliban has hosted peace talks between the Pakistani authorities and the TTP.
The TTP recently announced that it will establish an "Islamic Emirate" across the border region with Afghanistan.
Zamir Kabulov, Russian Special Envoy on Afghanistan and Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iranian Special Representative, met in Moscow. Rasul Mosawi, an Iranian Foreign Ministry official said that the two sides discussed regional cooperation, including stability and security of Afghanistan.
Kazemi Qomi is accompanying Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian foreign minister, to Russia.
The Iranian delegation arrived in Moscow on Tuesday.
Ahead of his Moscow visit, Abdollahian told reporters that he will discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov bilateral issues and developments in Afghanistan.
Russia and Iran are yet to recognise the Taliban government, but they have close relations with the group and have accepted their diplomates in Moscow and Tehran.