Afghanistan
Afghan envoy to Italy blasts Taliban
In a sharp anti-Taliban stance, Afghanistan Ambassador to Italy fully endorsed the legacy of Late Commander Ahmad Shah Masoud. The Ambassador in a talk in Rome talked about the implications of a terrorist organization taking power by force and forming an Islamist Radical Emirate Caretaker cabinet.
Afghan female football team evade Taliban threat
The footballers belonging to the national junior girls team were facing threats from the Taliban due to their involvement in sports. They had been originally due to travel to Qatar, where Afghan refugees have been housed at a facility for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, but were left stranded after a bomb blast at the Kabul airport on August 26, Dawn reported.
Afghan women protest Taliban's hijab diktat by sharing photos in colourful dresses
The Taliban have mandated the segregation of genders in classrooms and said that female students, lecturers and employees must wear hijabs in accordance with the group's interpretation of Sharia law. Photos have emerged of a group of female students wearing head-to-toe black robes and waving Taliban flags in the lecture hall of a government-run university in Kabul.
America in touch with India regarding ‘over-the-horizon’ support: Antony Blinken
The “over-the-horizon” strategy comes into the picture as the WH has promised to fight any transnational terrorism threats emanating from Afghanistan in the wake of withdrawing troops from Kabul. This strategy has been repeatedly used by Biden and his administration to identify and strike terrorists with aerial surveillance and drones launched from outside the country.
'US Central Command still assessing deadly drone strike in Kabul'
"I would say that the assessment by the Central Command is ongoing, and I'm not going to get ahead of that," Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby as saying to reporters here. Kirby's remarks were in response to a question over media investigations that suggested the US military might have mistaken an aid worker for a suicide bomber in the drone strike during its military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Cautious India extends support to 'people' of Afghanistan but no monetary aid to Taliban-led govt
This is probably for the first since the Taliban lost control over Kabul two decades ago, India has decided not to pledge any money to Afghanistan. However, Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Monday said that India will stand with the people of Afghanistan adding that it is essential to provide humanitarian assistance without any restriction to the country.
153 Afghan media outlets stop operations after Taliban takeover
The TOLO News report on Monday said these outlets include radio, print and TV channels, and their closure was mainly due to economic problems and restrictions. "If the organisations supporting media do not pay attention to the outlets, soon we will witness the closing of the remaining ones in the country," TOLO News quoted Hujatullah Mujadadi, deputy head of the Afghanistan Federation of Journalists, as saying.
Taliban fighters force men into car boots
Michelle Bachelet, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, said she has seen "credible reports" that Taliban fighters are searching house-to-house to track down anyone who helped the former government or the US. "Officials who worked for previous administrations and their family members (are) being arbitrarily detained. In some cases, the officials were released, and in others, they were found dead."
Kabul airport to be ready for int'l flights soon: Official
"Domestic flight operations have already started and the international flights would begin soon and efforts are underway to remove the remaining 10 to 15 per cent technical problems at the airport," Xinhua news agency quoted Hamadani as saying in a video clip on Monday.
Baradar absent from meetings with Qatar delegation; arch-rivals Haqqanis present in full strength
On Monday, the Taliban were forced to deny that Mullah Baradar is dead after rumours emerged that he was killed during a gunfight with his political rivals. The Taliban insisted that Baradar is in Kandahar province, meeting with the group's supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada to discuss the country's future now that the US troops have withdrawn.
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