A traffic accident in Baghlan leaves 16 dead and injured. At least nine people were killed and seven others were injured following a traffic accident in Kotal Pulfi, Khost and Farang districts of Baghlan province. According to local sources, the victims include two women and seven men, while the injured in the incident include four
Taliban halt national television broadcasts in Balkh. Afghanistan’s national television broadcasts in Balkh province were halted on the orders of Taliban governor Mohammad Yousuf Wafa. Local sources say the move was implemented on Tuesday evening (September 9) and was prompted by pressure from the Taliban’s Directorate of Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil. Following the decision,
Marshal Dostum: Martyrdom is an honor and death in bed is a disgrace for us. Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, leader and founder of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, in a message on the occasion of Martyr’s Week, honored the memory of the victims of the war and the struggle for freedom and justice in
Amnesty International: Taliban are committing crimes against humanity. Amnesty International has issued a statement calling on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently establish an independent and international accountability mechanism to investigate past and ongoing crimes in Afghanistan. The organization stressed that such a mechanism should be tasked with collecting, documenting and analyzing evidence of
People in Faryab bid farewell to beloved poet Mohammad Alam Kohkan. Today, the funeral prayer ceremony for Mohammad Alam Kohkan, a famous poet and cultural figure of Afghanistan, was held in Faryab province with the presence of thousands of citizens. The body of the late Kohkan was transferred to Afghanistan from the United States on
Khalid Hanafi: Welcoming a woman is against Islamic values and the Islamic law. After the visit of Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al-Musnad, the Minister of State for International Cooperation of Qatar, to Kabul and her reception by Taliban officials, a new rift emerged within the Taliban regime. The Office of Encouraging Virtue and Forbidding
Students: The Taliban have deprived us of the dormitory because of our language and ethnicity. A number of students at Parwan University say that the Taliban have acted with an ethnic and discriminatory approach in the dormitory admission process, giving priority to Pashtun-speaking students over Persian-speaking students. According to them, the Taliban consider Pashtuns superior
Panjshir families: Taliban have imprisoned our children because of the flag. On August 15, the Taliban forcibly installed their flags on the roofs of houses and shops in the market of Rukheh district, Panjshir province. The locals, who were unhappy with this action, took down the flags after a while; which was met with a
Former Taliban commander: We intended to kill journalists. Mohammad Omar Mukhlis, a former Taliban commander in Paktia province and a member of the Haqqani network, admitted at his farewell party that the group intended to kill journalists, but most of them managed to flee the country. “We would have killed all the journalists,” Mukhlis said
Sources: Taliban kill two civilians in Ghor province. Local sources in Ghor say that Taliban forces have once again started killing civilians. According to them, on Saturday, September 6, in the village of “Sur” in the Tiyawara district, Taliban members attacked three local residents who had gone to the mountains to collect firewood. Two people
