Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's Special Representative for Afghanistan affairs, on Friday, praised what he called Islamabad's constructive role in Afghanistan. Qomi made the comments during a meeting with Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad.
Reports of the emergence of the Tajikistan Taliban Movement (TTM) in northern Afghanistan has come to the fore, sources confirmed to Afghanistan International. According to AI sources, TTM recruits Tajik citizens and seeks to overthrow the government of Emomali Rahmon.
The Taliban’s Acting Defense Minister and Interior Minister visited the 203 Mansuri Corps in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan on separate occasions, as per the group’s affiliated media organisation, Bakhtar news agency.
Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan, once again called on the Taliban to let girls above grade 6 to go to school. Karzai on Friday said that he supports the demands of the Ulema and elders of Kunar province regarding reopening of schools for girls.
Thousands of users with over 40,000 tweets called on Twitter to suspend Taliban's accounts on the platform during the second day of the #BanTaliban campaign.
Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, on Thursday said that the Taliban doesn’t want an inclusive government in Afghanistan, despite the promises they have made.
Local sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban shot dead a young man in Andarab district of Baghlan and then, publicly displayed his body at the Bazar of this district.
Meta Platforms Inc. told Afghanistan International that the company has removed pages run by the Taliban-controlled media organisations on Facebook and Instagram because the group is sanctioned as a terrorist organisation under United States law.
Jawad Hussaini, the head of the Justice and Development party in Afghanistan, has been arrested by the Taliban at his house on Wednesday, July 20th, Afghanistan International’s sources confirmed.
A Foreign Policy columnist confirmed that the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) threatened her to either apologize for her previous reports about the group or serve jail time.
Facebook has suspended all official pages of the Radio Television of Afghanistan (RTA), which had been in control of the Taliban since August 15, 2021. Currently, the Facebook pages of RTA Dari, Pashto and English that were verified have been removed.
Taliban’s General Directorate of intelligence (GDI) said that an Islamic State-Khurasan (IS-K) member who intended to commit a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Kabul, has been arrested.
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) stated that human rights violations must be investigated especially with respect to two of the Taliban’s bodies – Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI).
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated in a report that 65 per cent of all Afghan refugees who had recently entered Iran have been deported by the Iranian government.
Local sources report that Taliban fighters killed a young man named Mozamel Ayar Nikzad in Nijrab district of Kapisa province on Monday night, July 18. Residents said that Nikzad, who left home to go to his farm around 10:00pm, was shot at by the Taliban.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Tuesday that 19.6 million people in Afghanistan face acute food insecurity. In a tweet, ICRC also confirmed the dramatic soaring of prices in the country.
A group of women protestors sought justice for the woman who is said to have been arbitrarily killed by the Taliban on Sunday, July 17.
Adina Mohammad Azad, a retired colonel of the former Afghan National Army, has been arrested by the Taliban at a checkpoint in Banu-e Andarab district of Baghlan province on Monday, local sources said.
A group of prosecutors from the Afghanistan’s Attorney General office sent a collection of audio files to Afghanistan International and said that after Taliban’s takeover, 2,000-2,500 prosecutors have been fired across the country.
Taliban health officials on Monday said that over the past ten days at least 43 people have died due to cholera in Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul provinces. The officials added that over 1,000 people have been infected with the disease.
Turkey has agreed to accept Taliban diplomats and two of them will arrive in Istanbul soon, sources in Kabul and Ankara told Afghanistan International.