Increasing insecurity, suicides, and crime; Taliban government powerless in the face of crises While the Taliban claim to provide security and establish order, the number of crimes, suicides, and violence across the country is increasing alarmingly. In the most recent case, a 15-year-old student named Ali Mardan was killed by armed robbers on a motorcycle
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan, has warned that tyranny, censorship, and suppression of freedoms shorten the lifespan of regimes. On Sunday, July 28, he wrote in a message on the X network that a regime imposed on the people by force will eventually collapse. Without naming the Taliban, Hekmatyar said: “Where neither human
Following the growing wave of insecurity and increased criminal activity in areas under Taliban control, local sources in Takhar province reported the killing of a citizen of the province by unknown gunmen. According to local sources, the incident occurred last night (Friday, July 26) in Taloqan city, the capital of Takhar province. The victim’s name
Taliban’s Dual Policy Towards Deported Refugees; Silence on Iranian Returnees, Support for Pakistani Returnees Following the increase in forced deportations of Afghan refugees from Iran, sources say that nearly 88,000 people have been returned to the country in the last two days alone; Mostly from the Hazara and Tajik ethnic groups. This is while the
Local sources in Takhar province say a former Afghan National Army soldier, a resident of Yangi Qala district, committed suicide and cut off his penis after several failures to propose. According to sources, the 35-year-old man, who had served in the ranks of the country’s security forces for years, had been unable to marry despite
Three people were killed and two others arrested in a bloody incident in Banu Andarab district of Baghlan province. Local sources told the media that the clashes broke out after a dispute over land ownership between a Taliban member named Rasool and a local resident named Ghulam Rasool in Ab Darreh area. During the clash,
Yuri Kukov, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, called Afghanistan under Taliban rule “a source of instability and a threat” to neighbors. In an interview with the Russianskaya newspaper, he said Moscow was particularly concerned about ISIS’s activities in Afghanistan and its attempts to infiltrate Central Asia and Russia. Kukov warned that the threat
Unidentified gunmen kill two residents of Daikundi; local Taliban likely involved in these killings Local sources in Daikundi have reported the killing of two citizens in the province’s Kiti district. According to sources, the incident took place last week in the village of Royan. The victims, named Wahid and Ali Mohammad, were the original residents
According to reliable sources, instead of providing treatment to addicts, Taliban forces are killing them. Public sources reported that at least seven addicts have died in a Taliban prison in Kandahar province due to violence by this group. According to these sources, the bodies of these victims have been in the hospital morgue for more
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister, has confirmed that a number of members of the group have secretly and arbitrarily targeted and killed officials and employees of the former government in revenge. Haqqani made these remarks during a meeting with local Taliban officials and families of slain members of the group in Kapisa province. While
