In the video, which aired on the national television Afghanistan, a masked man was seen carrying a Taliban flag and referred to as “Squadron Martyre Search”. Parade showed off everything from suicide vests, explosives, weapons, rockets, mine, car bombs and yellow barrels. In the video, the Taliban claimed the weapon would be used “against their […]
Continue ReadingAustralia must admit its involvement in Afghanistan has been an abject failure
Twenty times agone, Australian forces followed the US into Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks with a simple charge to hunt down Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership and remove the Taliban government that had sheltered them. That charge has ended in menial failure. Its costs have been significant 41 combat- […]
Continue ReadingTaliban has to fulfil promises if they want resources to be unfrozen: UN
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) High Commissioner Filippo Grandi has said that the Taliban has to fulfil some pledges if they want their fiscal coffers to be defrosted. The UN manager for deportees further said that Afghan women and girls must be allowed to attend seminaries, and nonages must be represented, reported Tolo News. Meanwhile, […]
Continue ReadingUK rules out returning troops to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
British and NATO forces won’t return to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, the United Kingdom’s defence clerk said, after the group took control of Kabul following a blistering civil descent. Ben Wallace told Sky News on Monday that it was “ not on the cards that we ’re going to go back” as reports of […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan: How press freedom crumbled since Taliban takeover
Selma (the name changed) is a journalist and live activist and works in Panjshir Province in East Afghanistan. He lost his job after a Taliban takeover from a war hit by a war in August. After being threatened, he had since left the area and now in hiding, selling Bolani, local flat bread, on the […]
Continue ReadingAlmost half of Afghan media closed since Taliban takeover: Survey
Afghan media outlets were on the verge of collapse because they faced a lack of funds after the takeover by the Taliban in August this year. A survey released by journalists without Borders (RSF) and the Association of Independent Afghanistan (AIJA) showed that around 43 percent of Afghan media outlets had closed their operations, leaving […]
Continue ReadingWith Omicron, Experts Explain What Could Help Permanently Defeat Covid
With a new version that forces vaccine makers to retest Jab, a virus that causes Covid-19 has proven to be very unpredictable. But the latest variants to swept the Globe have persuaded some old experts hoping – for collective immunity to be seen, and that this virus might evolve into a relatively benign seasonal disease. […]
Continue ReadingKarnataka College News: Students sport saffron scarves protesting hijab inside classroom
The management of a state-run degree college in Koppa here is in a fix after a section of students came to college wearing saffron scarves protesting against the Muslim women allegedly attending classes with hijab. The Government Degree College in Balagadi, Karnataka, which had reportedly given in to the demand of the students with saffron scarves […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan: Citizens Acquire Passports With Fake Illness Documents Under Taliban’s Policy
People in Afghanistan are copping fake illness documents to apply for the passport, in agreement with the unpremeditated policy drafted by the Taliban that makes the bad Afghan citizens eligible to acquire a passport using the attestation as evidence. All sick people, government workers, and huntsmen are eligible to get their passports issued under the […]
Continue ReadingPakistan Slams Taliban Curbs on Afghan Women
A Pakistani government minister Monday blamed bordering Afghanistan’s ruling Islamist Taliban for placing checks on women, denouncing the checks as”retrogressive thinking” and as posing trouble to his country. Information Minister Fawad Hussain, while speaking to an Islamabad gathering, described the new Taliban government in Kabul as an “ revolutionist governance.” “ We want to completely […]
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