The Afghan Journalists Center has called for the immediate release of Sulaiman Rahel, the director of Khoshal Radio in Ghazni. According to the organization, the Taliban arrested him four days ago without providing any reason. The Taliban have not yet commented on the matter. Last year, the former director of the radio station, Hekmat Arian,
Local sources in Badghis province confirm that a man in Pahlawan village of Ab Kamari district brutally beheaded his six-month-old daughter. According to sources, the incident occurred after the man first got into an argument with someone outside his home and then returned home in a violent manner. He first severely beat his wife and
Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada has issued 20 decrees ordering religious school teachers to train students to resist ‘negative media propaganda.’ He has stressed that students must obey Taliban leaders, not speak of their faults and strictly implement the group’s curriculum. Teachers have also been asked to teach students ethics, Sharia and Sunnah and to
Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister of the Taliban, announced that investors returning to Afghanistan from other countries will enjoy special privileges. He said that these investors will be given free land in industrial parks and will be exempted from paying taxes for five years. Hanafi, who also heads the High Commission for the Resolution
A young girl in Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, has committed suicide due to family problems. Local sources say that the girl decided to end her life due to differences between her family and her husband’s family. The incident took place in the “Tatarkhane” area of Maimana city. It is said that the girl’s
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
A 60-year-old miner died after a coal mine collapsed in the upper Dara Souf district of Samangan province. Local sources said the incident occurred on Monday evening, May 15, and the victim, Nematullah, was a resident of the lower Dara Souf district. The Taliban also confirmed the incident. According to a spokesman for the Taliban’s
Following protests by people in the Argoy district of Badakhshan against the destruction of poppy fields, the Taliban have arrested at least 35 protesters and transferred them to the city of Faizabad. Local sources say the arrests were accompanied by beatings of the protesters, and the presence of Taliban soldiers in the villages of Atan-Jallo
Mullah Abdul-Islam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, emphasized the equality of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups in a meeting with a number of Shiite elders and said: “Based on the policy of the Islamic Emirate, no discrimination or prejudice is acceptable.” The meeting was held on Sunday, but the Taliban’s official Arg page did not publish
Local sources in Panjshir say that the Taliban have shot dead a 25-year-old man named Farhad in Maidan Wardak province. According to the sources, Farhad, who was originally from the village of “Shekhan” in the “Rukhay” district of Panjshir, was pulled out of a car by the Taliban on the Kabul-Maidan Wardak highway on Sunday
