AFF Reports Attack On Taliban Outpost In Kabul
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced that on Tuesday evening, it attacked an outpost of the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior in the Karte Naw area of Kabul.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) announced that on Tuesday evening, it attacked an outpost of the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior in the Karte Naw area of Kabul.
The AFF claims that a Taliban commander had been killed and three other Taliban members were injured in the attack.
According to the AFF’s statement, the Taliban commander was Fazluddin Osmani. A Taliban military vehicle was also destroyed in the attack.
The AFF has also released a video purportedly showing this attack.
The Taliban's Ministry of Interior has not yet commented on the incident.
The Taliban's Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that the group publicly flogged a person accused of extramarital affair in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province.
The court's statement indicated that this person was also sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment.
The Taliban stated that the individual was punished based on the decision of the Taliban's court in Deh Yak district and confirmed by the group's Supreme Court.
The statement did not mention the gender of the accused. The Taliban punished this individual with 39 lashes.
Despite international condemnation of corporal punishment, the Taliban continues to carry out similar sentences.
Human rights organisations state that in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, the accused have no access to any standard judicial process or fair legal mechanisms.
The Iranian Students’ News Agency, ISNA, reported that the first transit train from Afghanistan has arrived in the Van city of Turkiye, after 40 days.
This train departed from Herat to Turkiye in April and was stopped in Iran for a while.
So far, Taliban and Turkish authorities have not commented on the arrival of this train in Turkiye.
The Taliban Railway Administration had announced that for the first time, 1,100 metric tonnes of minerals have been exported to the Mersin city of Turkiye.
According to ISNA, after a brief stop in Iran, this train arrived in Van, Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, on Tuesday.
Although Iranian authorities have not officially stated the reason for the train's stoppage, media outlets in the country reported, citing an Iranian official, that the transit train from Afghanistan was halted due to a lack of necessary coordination between the eastern railway and customs of Iran.
The Taliban dismissed Qalandar Ebad from the Ministry of Public Health and appointed Maulawi Noor Jalal, a former aide to the Ministry of Interior, as his successor.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, stated that based on a decree by Mullah Hibatullah, the governors of the group in Samangan and Faryab have also been relocated.
Qalandar Ebad, the former Taliban’s Minister of Public Health, is a physician. He was appointed as the interim head of this ministry after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. However, Noor Jalal is a cleric and was introduced as the administrative deputy of the Taliban's Ministry of Interior in the summer of 2021.
The Taliban spokesperson did not provide any explanation regarding the dismissal of Ebad.
Mujahid wrote in a note on X social media platform on Tuesday, that Abdul Ahad Fazli, the former governor of the group in Samangan, has been appointed as the new governor of the Taliban in Faryab.
According to a decree by Hibatullah Akhundzada, Mohammad Shoaib Resalat, the former governor of the Taliban in Faryab, has been appointed as the governor of the group in Samangan.
Mujahid also wrote that Rahmatullah Najib, the former administrative deputy of the Taliban intelligence, has been appointed as the administrative deputy of the Ministry of Interior of the group.
As per the Taliban’s leader’s decree, Mohammad Sadiq Inqilabi, the former district governor of the Taliban in the Grishk district of Helmand province, has been appointed as the deputy governor of the group in Kandahar, and Hayatullah Mubarak, the former deputy governor of the Taliban in Kandahar, has been dismissed and assigned as the governor of Grishk district, Helmand province.
Hibatullah has been appointing most members of the group to key government positions.
The lack of professionalism among Taliban members has also been repeatedly criticised.
Mohammad Kouhgard, Director-General of South Khorasan Customs, has said that in the the past two months, 6,837 cargo trucks have transited from the Mahiroud border to Afghanistan.
Kouhgard stated that transit to Afghanistan has seen a "90 percent increase in weight" and declared its value to be over USD 242 million.
Earlier, in 18 shipments this year, the Director-General of South Khorasan Customs announced a threefold increase in cargo transit to Afghanistan.
Kouhgard, on Monday, in an interview with IRNA, said that cargo transit to Afghanistan has seen a "90 percent increase in weight”.
According to him, transit of goods has grown by 965 percent in terms of the number of trucks and by 770 percent in terms of value.
Transit goods to Afghanistan include trucks carrying sugar, flour, oil, used empty containers, and chemical fertilisers.
These goods have been transited from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, and Indonesia through the Mahiroud Customs to Afghanistan.
This Iranian official also reported exports of goods from South Khorasan Customs to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Iraq.
These goods include cement, fuel oil, tiles and ceramics, edible salt, plastic products, and other export items to these countries.
Kouhgard said that the total exports through South Khorasan Customs in the past year amounted to over USD 122 million, with a 70 percent increase in value and a 30 percent increase in weight.
South Khorasan has four border markets and shares a 331-kilometre border with Afghanistan.
Taliban officials on Monday inaugurated the "Women's Chamber of Commerce and Industry" at the Directorate of Industry and Commerce in Maidan Wardak province.
According to the Taliban's press release, this is the first time a women's chamber of commerce and industry has been established in this province.
At the inauguration ceremony, Fariba Noori, the deputy head of the Women's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stated that the chamber would operate in accordance with "Islamic Sharia law and Taliban regulations”.
The Taliban's press release mentioned that so far, women's chambers of commerce and industry have been established in 20 provinces of Afghanistan.
Taliban officials described the opening of this chamber as "very necessary and beneficial" for women's business activities.
The Taliban inaugurated this chamber while women in Afghanistan are currently facing extensive employment restrictions.
The Taliban have restricted women's presence in public spaces.