Kabul – According to documents obtained, 1,326 civilian and military posts have been cut in the Taliban Prisons Management Department. An official letter from the department, issued on Thursday, May 25, stated that these cuts were made on the orders of Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund and based on Order No. 6316. According
Faryab – The Taliban security command in Faryab province has announced that a 60-year-old man was shot dead by his 19-year-old grandson in the Khwaja Sabzposh district of the province. According to a press release issued by the command on Friday, May 16, the incident took place in a shop in the Khwaja Sabzposh district
PARWAN – Following the start of a widespread layoff process in Parwan province, local sources report the dismissal of 31 employees of the provincial government. According to information made available to the media on Friday, 16th of Saur, these employees continued their duties until 11th of Saur; while according to the official letter, the effective
Kabul – Local sources report a fire broke out at a gas company in Sark-e-No area of Kabul city. According to these sources, the incident occurred on Saturday and after that, firefighting teams were dispatched to the scene. Efforts to control the fire are still ongoing. So far, there are no details about possible casualties
The European Union has announced that it has funded a women’s and girls’ addiction treatment centre in Jawzjan province. The 20-bed centre will provide treatment and rehabilitation services to women addicts. The project is being implemented in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and is part of the EU’s efforts to
At a meeting at the Hoover Institution, Afghan journalists and activists warned that media repression in Afghanistan has reached a worrying stage and that the support of the American people is needed to preserve freedom of expression. They emphasized that after the Taliban’s return, more than 40 percent of media outlets have been closed and
Jamiat-e-Islami, the branch of Atta Mohammad Noor, has issued a statement calling on the UN to take immediate action to stop the Taliban’s “scooping of national resources.” In the statement, released on Friday, May 16, the Taliban are accused of widespread human rights violations, arbitrary mining, and creating social and political crises. Jamiat-e-Islami has warned
The first direct meeting of Russian and Ukrainian delegations in more than two years was held in Istanbul, but the talks ended without any sign of progress. The first round of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday and lasted less than two hours. According to Reuters, the
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy economic minister, has called on Russia to cooperate with Afghanistan in the construction of the second Salang Tunnel. He made the request at the Afghanistan-Russia trade forum held on the sidelines of the Kazan Economic Forum. Baradar pointed to Russia’s experience in building the first Salang Tunnel
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs, met with Khusnullin Marat, the country’s deputy prime minister for regional development, in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Taliban’s deputy prime minister’s office announced that in this meeting, the two sides discussed expanding political, economic and trade relations. Mr. Baradar
