Taliban’s Attempt To Grab Afghanistan’s Seat At UN Fails

Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim Riaz, deputy provincial director of Information and Culture in Helmand, confirmed the flogging of these citizens.

According to Riaz, these citizens have been punished for theft and extramarital affairs.

These people have been punished in the central stadium of Lashkargah city in Helmand province and some of them have been sentenced to prison for several months.

In Qalat, the capital city of Zabul province, the Taliban have flogged seven people, including two women, at the Shaikh Mati High School on charges of theft and extramarital affairs.

After flogging the two women, the Taliban in Zabul Province sentenced them to three and one-year sentences in prison.

According to the Taliban, some of the men who have been punished in Zabul have also been sentenced to prison terms ranging from a few months to three years.

Since the first weeks of their return to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have been receiving similar cash packages every week.

Observers have questioned the sources and spending of the aid money by the Taliban.

On the other hand, many Afghan citizens have criticised the distribution of humanitarian aid by the international community under the Taliban reign.

Qasemi was addressing the Razavi Khorasan Commission for Foreign Nationals Affairs, which has been established in Mashhad city in the presence of the Iranian President's Special Representative for Afghanistan Affairs.

Qasemi said that about 1,500 Afghan citizens return to their country voluntarily on a daily basis through the Dougharoun border with Afghanistan.

According to Iranian media, before the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in August 2021, Razavi Khorasan province of seven million people, hosted 320,000 Afghan citizens with permits, passports, and identification cards.

According to published statistics, after the implementation of the Census plan, the number of Afghan immigrants living in Razavi Khorasan province increased by 180,000 this spring, and now the number of registered Afghans with legal documents has reached half a million in the province. It is said that 98% of these people live in Mashhad city.

The Taliban foreign ministry has asked the three diplomats to return to Kabul.

Ahmad Baryali Kabirzada, Seyed Hamid Nomani and Hikmatullah Durrani are among the diplomats who have been dismissed by the Taliban's Foreign Ministry.

Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Mutaqqi has signed the letters.

It is not known whether these diplomats will leave their positions and return to Kabul based on the Taliban's order.

Currently, Amir Mohammad Ramin is the ambassador of Afghanistan in Turkey. Ramin was appointed to this position by the previous government of Afghanistan.

This is even though about ten months ago, the Taliban's foreign ministry claimed that the Afghan embassy in Ankara was being guided by the Taliban.

Currently, no country recognises the Taliban regime as the legitimate Afghan state.

IRC said that the guardrails against crisis in these countries have been weakened and dismantled by factors such as conflict, climate change, and economic turmoil.

Vicki Aken, IRC’s Afghanistan director, noted during a briefing that conditions in the country “are actually worse than they were last year".

According to IRC’s report, 20 countries that will face the worst humanitarian crisis in the coming year, make up about 13% of the world's population.

On an average, countries on the emergency watchlist have experienced armed conflict for nearly the entire past decade, the report said.

According to the International Rescue Committee's estimate, in 2023, about 340 million people will need better humanitarian aid planning and funding.