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
Mullah Haibatullah also banned religious education for women. Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada recently announced in a cabinet meeting that girls and women were not only deprived of secular education, but also of religious schools. Citing narrations from the era of the third Muslim caliph, he claimed that women’s attendance at religious schools and mosques
“Navai is the heritage of all of us”; Widespread reactions to the destruction of the statue of Hazrat Navai in Balkh by the Taliban. The destruction of the statue of Amir Alisher Navai, a poet, thinker, and grand minister of the Timurid court, by the Taliban municipality in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif has sparked a
Cultural heritage is too great to be destroyed with the pickaxe of prejudice. In the latest move, the Taliban have destroyed the monument of Amir Alisher Navai in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. This move by the Taliban is not only a clear attack on the collective memory of the Afghan people, but also a calculated
The Taliban held a “beard seminar” at Panjshir University. The Taliban’s information and culture department in Panjshir announced that the group had held a seminar at the university in the province entitled “The Place of the Beard in Islam.” The event was attended by a number of faculty and administrative staff. Abdul Fattah Rahmani, the
Badakhshan; Taliban impose village head with bloody repression of the people. In the Yamgan district of Badakhshan, people’s protest against the imposition of a Taliban-backed village head turned violent. Local sources say that Taliban forces shot and beat at least 22 residents of the village of Kawjo Khan on Saturday, August 16, and nine of
Nai: Freedom of expression is destroyed and the media industry is facing an unprecedented decline. Four years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, freedom of expression and the media environment in the country have come under unprecedented pressure. The latest findings of the Afghan Independent Media Support Organization (NAI) show that the number
Marriage to Taliban commander; the beginning of 20 days of suffering and the end of life by suicide. In the latest example of widespread violence against women under Taliban rule, a newlywed in Azra district of Logar province has ended her life by shooting herself. According to local sources, the girl had married a Taliban
Taliban and a series of sexual scandals; Badakhshan security commander arrested on charges of adultery. According to local sources, Shadab Raghi, the commander of the 5th security district of Faizabad, has been arrested on charges of “adultery” with a young girl. Raghi tried to flee the scene after the news was widely circulated on social
Taliban official’s forced marriage to married woman; new case of corruption and sexual abuse. Local sources say that Maulvi Mahboobullah Hamid, the deputy governor of the Taliban in Ghor province, has forcibly married a married woman for his fourth marriage and moved her to the city of Faizabad. According to the sources, the woman was
