Alarming increase in suicides among Afghan women; “Suicide is not the solution” campaign launched Following the increase in suicides among Afghan women in recent weeks, including the suicide of a young Afghan girl in Pakistan and the self-immolation of Abida in Ghor province, a new campaign titled “Suicide is not the solution” has been launched.
General Abdul Malik, the leader of the Freedom Party, has called for the start of an “international” discourse under the supervision of the United Nations and the Islamic Conference in response to recent statements by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaki, calling the intra-Afghan talks a failed experiment. The comments followed Amir Khan Mottaki’s remarks
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has released a video message emphasizing the importance of freedom of expression and the role of journalists in society, saying: “When journalists cannot work, we all suffer.” Noting that freedom of expression is a vital foundation of democracy and human rights, Guterres added: “Journalists must be able to carry out their
Seven people were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in the Sayedabad district of Maidan Wardak province. The Taliban security chief in Maidan Wardak said the incident took place in the Lori area of Sayedabad district on Friday evening. According to the police chief, a high-speed Fielder car
Afghan Turk Women’s Movement: Abida was a victim of forced marriage and violence under a regime of force and oppression, a regime that tramples on women’s human rights and dignity. The Turkish Women’s Movement, protesting the self-immolation of Abida, a daughter of Ghori, under the Taliban regime, has expressed its deep sorrow and anger over
Turkish Women’s Movement: Mullah Hanafi has no right to distribute land and relocate refugees in the Northern provinces of the country. Turkish Women’s Movement; The Taliban have expressed concern over the relocation of returnees from Pakistan in Northern Afghanistan and called for an end to the process. The movement said in a letter that the
The Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture has announced that the decision to shut down the private Rah Farda TV was made based on complaints from employees of the TV station that their salaries were not being paid. The ministry has issued a statement saying that the TV station’s case has been referred to the
Following the spread of reactions to the systematic settlement of Pashtun and Waziristan migrants in the Northern provinces, Sardar Mohammad Rahman Oghly, former Afghan ambassador to Ukraine, has warned of the worrying consequences of this process. Rahman Oghly considered this Taliban policy a targeted attempt to change the demographic makeup of non-Pashtun-populated areas and emphasized
According to local sources, on Tuesday morning, a cook at a Taliban security base in the Sherzad district of the province shot dead three members of the group and injured two others. The incident took place in the “Pitlu” area of Sherzad district. According to reports, before the shooting, there was a verbal argument between
Local sources in Badakhshan say that last night, unknown armed individuals stormed a house in Arghand village of Argoy district of the province and shot dead a woman and her young son. Taliban officials in Badakhshan confirmed the incident and said that the group’s forces had arrested four people in connection with the case. Mysterious
