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Taliban's Dam Construction Plans Escalate Tensions with Pakistan
A spokesperson from the Taliban's Water and Energy Ministry announced on December 18 that the project's survey and design had been finalized, signaling their intention to move forward.
Distracted by Gaza, Ukraine, world forgets Afghanistan as it courts China
After the Doha Accord, the US-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 that formalised the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, appeared to be going defunct, the Taliban accused the US of not going by the agreement, whereby it would engage with the UN to remove Taliban members from the sanctions list.
Taliban to join China's Belt and Road forum
Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those focused on Afghanistan, but the Belt and Road Forum is among the highest-profile multilateral summits it has been invited to attend, The News reported.
Taliban imposes restrictions on Afghanistan's Sikh, Hindu minorities
While Afghanistan's last-known Jew fled the country shortly after the Taliban takeover, the Sikh and Hindu communities are believed to have shrunk to just a handful of families, RFE/RL reported.
US, Pakistan failed to predict fall of Afghanistan to Taliban
It was not just the Kabul fall where Pakistan's assessment went wrong, Islamabad could not foresee the dangers of the Taliban’s return to power and the ensuing threats to its security, The Express Tribune reported.
Taliban burns musical instruments, claims music 'causes moral corruption'
Images on social media showed that amplifiers and speakers were also set ablaze in the bonfire. Many of these had been seized from wedding venues, the report added. Responding to the incident, an official at the Taliban's Vice and Virtue Ministry said playing music would "cause the youth to go astray".
Taliban supports Elon Musk’s Twitter over Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads
Anas Haqqani, a Taliban thought-leader with family connections to the leadership, officially endorsed Twitter over Meta’s Threads that has crossed 100 million users within a week of its launch. “Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms. The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature and credibility of Twitter,” Haqqani posted.
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