UN calls on Taliban to stop gender-based violence in Afghanistan

25 Nov 2022

The Taliban have been urged by the UN mission in Afghanistan to take immediate action to stop violence against women and the general erosion of women's rights as a crucial component of attempts to forge a meaningful and long-lasting peace. The request was made at the same time as the...

400 loudspeakers in Kabul now, as Taliban urges worshippers to offer more prayers

23 Nov 2022

The Taliban's religious enforcers claimed that hundreds of loudspeakers had been put in Kabul, the country's capital, to entice worshipers to attend prayers. Hundreds of vacant stores and other inactive structures have been transformed into mosques, according to the ministry for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice,...

Taliban killed 4 ISIS militants including 2 commanders in Afghanistan

25 Oct 2022

According to media sources quoting a Taliban-run news agency, the Taliban have claimed responsibility for the killings of four ISIS fighters, including two senior leaders, in the northeastern Afghan province of Takhar. During a combined operation on Saturday, according to Qari Aminullah Tayeb, a Taliban commander, they discovered an ISIS...

Taliban kills 6 members of Islamic State

22 Oct 2022

Six members of the Islamic State were killed by Taliban security forces in an overnight operation in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to a spokesman for the administration of the ruling party on Saturday. The Islamic State members killed in the raid on their hideout were involved in two major attacks in...

India delivers 13th batch of medical assistance to Afghanistan

11 Oct 2022

Continuing with its aid to Afghanistan, India supplied the thirteenth batch of medical assistance to Afghanistan, said MEA. The assistance consists of essential medicines and medical/surgical items like paediatric stethoscope, Sphygmomanometer mobile type with paediatric BP cuff, infusion pump, drip chamber set, electrocautery, nylon sutures etc. The same was handed...

Taliban official says 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul

30 Sep 2022

A suicide bomber struck an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on Friday, killing 19 people and injuring 27, according to a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief. The explosion occurred inside the centre in Kabul's Dashti Barchi neighbourhood early in the morning, according to spokesman Khalid...

Afghan provinces see mass evacuation as Taliban raids houses

21 Sep 2022

Taliban have begun carrying out door-to-door nighttime raids in the central and southern provinces of Kandahar and Parwan in Afghanistan under the pretext of tracking down illegal arms, triggering fear among locals and leading to mass evacuations.As door-to-door searches by the Taliban have become regular in Afghanistan, residents of Kolami...

UN calls for genuine investigation into Panjshir crimes by Taliban

21 Sep 2022

UN special rapporteur for Afghan human rights, Richard Bennett, called out the Taliban to conduct the investigations amid reports of extra-judicial killings in Panjshir in a genuine manner and as per international standards.“Noting the Department of Foreign Affairs, MoD, has opened an investigation into reports of extra-judicial killings in Panjshir,...

Pak requests Taliban to search and arrest Azhar

14 Sep 2022

Pakistan has requested that the Taliban in Afghanistan track down and apprehend the Jaish-e-Muhammad Chief. According to reports, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry wrote a letter to Taliban counterparts in this regard. The move comes amid Western pressure on Pakistan to act against Azhar, an UN-designated terrorist leader who founded JEM...