Deputy Intelligence Minister: People’s flight from Afghanistan is the result of harmful traditions. Taj Mir Javad, the Taliban’s deputy intelligence chief, claimed at a meeting in Khost province that the flight of people from Afghanistan was the result of “unpleasant customs and harmful traditions.” He urged people not to be “deceived by propaganda” and to
New Taliban Restrictions; Criticism of Leader and Love Poetry Becomes a Red Line. The Taliban Ministry of Justice has announced that Haibatullah Akhundzada, the group’s leader, has signed the “Law on the Regulation of Poetry” in two chapters and 13 articles. According to this law, poets are prohibited from composing love poems, praising their beloved,
Taliban figure released after month of detention. Abdul Sami Ghaznavi, a prominent Taliban figure and teacher at jihadi schools, was released from the group’s prison after about a month of detention. Ghaznavi has been known among the Taliban as an ideological and jihadi teacher for nearly two decades. She was arrested in early September after
Mujahid: Educating girls is a minor issue. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced in a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday, August 26, that the Taliban leadership has approved a document called the “Development Strategy.” He said the document is a comprehensive, long-term, five-year plan that will use domestic resources to guide all Taliban government institutions
Increasing Taliban pressure to grow beards and wear hats. In recent weeks, reports have emerged from several provinces of the country indicating that the Taliban have imposed new restrictions on citizens’ appearance. According to these reports, the requirement to grow beards and wear hats has gone beyond government and private institutions and now includes students,
Taliban executes flogging sentence on 11 people in Kabul and Faryab. The Taliban Supreme Court has announced that 11 people were publicly flogged in Kabul and Faryab on Sunday, August 24. According to the court, in Kabul, nine people were each given between 10 and 39 lashes on charges of buying and selling drugs and
The Taliban restricted the clothing of university professors and students. The Taliban Ministry of Encouraging Good and Preventing Evil has announced that professors and students of public and private universities will no longer be allowed to enter classrooms wearing “shirts, suits, or trousers.” According to sources, the order also emphasizes shaving beards and hair according
Continuing to detain women on charges of “non -compliance with the veil” in Kabul. Local sources in Kabul report that the Taliban’s “famous and forbidding evil” have arrested a number of women near the Parwan Hotel in the eleventh district of Kabul on Thursday night. According to the sources, women have been pressured and threatened
A new documentary shows the rise of the Taliban after the US withdrawal. The documentary “Hollywood Gate: A Year Under Taliban Rule” has just been released in Hamburg cinemas. The film looks at events after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and focuses on the Taliban’s entry into a US base in Kabul
Can reconstruction clear the Taliban’s image of culture and history? The mayor of Balkh expressed regret over the destruction of the monument to Amir al-Kalam Mir Ali Shir Navai. After the destruction of the statue of Amir Ali Shir Navai in Mazar-e-Sharif sparked a wave of anger and protests from Afghan cultural figures and Uzbek
