Cultural

Increase in child marriage and child motherhood in Afghanistan; a generation that becomes a silent victim of the Taliban regime before reaching adulthood. In a new statement, the “Purple Saturdays” movement reported a worrying increase in the phenomena of child marriage and child motherhood in Afghanistan under Taliban control, calling it a humanitarian crisis whose

On the sidelines of the informal meeting of the Turkic States Organization held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, the International Alisher Navai Award was presented to Professor Aziz Sancar, a prominent scientist of Turkish origin and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award, named after Alisher Navai, one of the pioneers of

At a meeting at the Hoover Institution, Afghan journalists and activists warned that media repression in Afghanistan has reached a worrying stage and that the support of the American people is needed to preserve freedom of expression. They emphasized that after the Taliban’s return, more than 40 percent of media outlets have been closed and

A ceremony hosted by the Balkh Provincial Information and Culture Department in Mazar-e-Sharif honored the scientific and literary status of Makhdum Qoli Faraghi, a famous Turkmen poet from the 12th century. A number of government officials, the Consul General of the Republic of Turkmenistan, poets, writers, and cultural figures from Mazar-e-Sharif attended the conference. The

Local sources say the Taliban have dismissed around 100 journalists and employees of the National Radio and Television, mostly ethnic Tajiks, without prior notice. According to the sources, these people were dismissed with insulting treatment, while some were newly hired through legal channels and were the breadwinners of their families. Ghulam Khan, the new deputy

Local sources in Panjshir province say; the Taliban have closed about 200 local education classes for boys and girls in different areas of the province. These sources told the media on Wednesday that these classes had been upgraded to the third and fourth grade level and now, with their closure, more than 5,300 students have

Local sources in Badakhshan say that Taliban intelligence forces arrested Uzbek social activist Imdad-ul-Haq Tural yesterday in the Argoy district of the province. According to the sources, the social activist was targeted for his civic activities related to the Uzbek community and was detained by the Taliban without providing an official warrant or a clear

The Meteorology Department of the Taliban government’s Ministry of Transport and Aviation has warned of the possibility of heavy rainfall, flooding and thunderstorms in 17 provinces of the country. A press release issued on Sunday stated that this weather condition is likely to occur on Monday in the provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar, Nuristan, Kunar, Laghman,

A Type 580 passenger bus overturned on the Samangan-Balkh highway, killing three and injuring 33. According to Taliban officials in Samangan, the incident occurred on Tuesday morning in the Golai Kaftarkhaneh area of ​​Kholam district. Among the injured were women and children, who were taken to a provincial hospital for treatment. The Taliban have blamed

The Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture has announced that the decision to shut down the private Rah Farda TV was made based on complaints from employees of the TV station that their salaries were not being paid. The ministry has issued a statement saying that the TV station’s case has been referred to the