CPJ Calls for Immediate Release of Two Journalists From Taliban’s Custody

The organisation said that it needs $617 million to sustain all of its food programmes by the end of 2024.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement on Tuesday (October 8) that 1.4 million mothers and children in Afghanistan are unable to access nutritious food aid due to the financial crisis.

The organisation said that the financial crisis has jeopardised the organisation's food aid process, which began with the Taliban's takeover in 2021.

WFP has noted that climate change and the climate crisis in many parts of Afghanistan have destroyed the livelihoods of some of the most vulnerable people. The organisation says that heavy rains and recent floods in some villages of Afghanistan have seriously damaged the livelihood of the people.

However, thousands of Afghan refugee families have been forcibly deported from Pakistan and returned to Afghanistan without any facilities, as there is not enough time to earn a living and feed their children in the country.

Earlier, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that nearly four million people in Afghanistan have received cash from the organisation this year. Half of the recipients of cash assistance are women, the organisation said.

The World Health Organisation announced last week that at least 12 million Afghans do not know where their next meal will come from.

According to the organisation, four million infants and pregnant mothers in Afghanistan are currently malnourished.

The state-run radio said that Afghans arrested during the protests damaged public property.

During the protests, Pakistani police arrested 412 people, including 60 Afghans.

The PTI has not yet commented on the matter.

According to a report by Radio Pakistan, a number of these detainees have now revealed that they have been deceived by the PTI party.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has been embroiled in intense political tensions with the Pakistani government for the past three years.

The media outlet wrote that 36 families from Pakistan and 310 families from Iran have returned to Afghanistan.

Bakhtar News Agency, wrote on Tuesday, October 8, that Afghan refugee families have returned to Afghanistan from the Torkham, Spin Boldak, Pul-e-Abrisham and Islam Qala crossings.

On October 3, the outlet had also reported the deportation of 299 Afghan families from Iran and Pakistan and their return to Afghanistan.

This comes as the trend of deportation of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan has increased sharply in recent months. Afghan immigrants in these two countries face many challenges. Iran's police chief said recently that by the end of this year, two million undocumented Afghan refugees will be "deported" from Iran.

The ministry said that it had confiscated more than 14,746 acres of land in Maidan Wardak province alone.

According to the Taliban's statement, between September 6 and October 4, 2024, 34,018 acres of land have been registered as "emirates" in Ghor, Maidan Wardak, Takhar, Logar, Nuristan, Badghis, and Panjshir provinces alone.

According to the statement published on Tuesday, another 567,782 acres of land in 33 provinces of Afghanistan are under review by the group's Land Grabbing Prevention Commission.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice said that the confiscated lands are “Taliban government’s land” and have been handed over to the relevant departments of the group.

The statement did not specify which department owned the lands or who had usurped them.

The Taliban have emphasised that the investigation, identification and confiscation of such lands are continuing throughout the country.

After the Taliban's return to power, there have been reports of the group usurping citizens' lands, but the Taliban deny these accusations.

A local source accused a Taliban member of kidnapping and killing the woman after she rejected his marriage proposal.

Nooria worked as a cleaner in this clinic and had lost her husband. Sources said that she had refused to remarry her husband's brother, which angered the alleged accused. According to them, this person is a member of the Taliban group.

Local sources claimed that Nooria’s brother-in-law kidnapped her from her home on September 30 and murdered her after raping her.

The health worker’s body was found near her home on October 7 after about a week.

Local Taliban officials in Badakhshan have not yet commented on the incident.