Mortar explosion kills a child, injures his mother
JALALABAD (SW) – Local sources in Nangarhar told Salam Watandar that a child was killed and his mother was injured when a mortar shell exploded in the Haska Maina district of the province.
Category: Democracy & Human Rights
Afghanistan exports paper sheets to Kazakhstan
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Islamic Emirate has said that Afghanistan has for the first time exported paper sheets to Kazakhstan.
Bamyan women activists arrested, interrogated
BAMYAN (SW) – Local sources in Bamyan, who did not want to be identified, told Salam Watandar that intelligence forces had arrested and interrogated 11 women since Saturday on charges of disrupting a program in support of the Islamic Emirate.
Call for the release of press freedom activist
KABUL (SW) – The Afghanistan Journalist Safety Committee (AJSC) has called for the immediate release of Ghulam Rabbani, its provincial member in Ghor province, by the forces of the Islamic Emirate.
‘Major decisions are made not in the cabinet, but elsewhere’
MONITORING (SW) – Mette Knudsen, Deputy Special Representative (Political) for Afghanistan, has said the situation in the government had remained unclear since the Islamic Emirate took control of Afghanistan.
Religious scholars call for reopening of girls’ schools
KABUL (SW) – A number of religious scholars on Thursday criticized the closure of secondary schools and high schools for girls, saying that this was harming the image of Islam.
Authorities warn to close down ‘defaulter’ media houses
KABUL (SW) – A number of media outlets that have not paid their due taxes, license fee or other dues would be closed down, officials warned on Wendesday.
Analysts see no early signs for recognition of Islamic Emirate internationally
KABUL (SW) – China has become the latest following Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Qatar and Russia to recognize the appointment of Afghan diplomats by the Islamic Emirate.
Over 200 Afghans killed, injured by explosive ordinances
KABUL (SW) – Since January this year, over 200 people were killed or injured by explosive ordinances half of whom are children, said the ICRC.
Prices of poppy rise sharply days after blanket ban
MONITORING (SW) – Days after the blanket ban on the cultivation, use and sale of all sorts of narcotics, the prices of opioids have sharply in the southern provinces of the country.
UN underlines worth of financial system in averting humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
MONITORING (SW) – The UN has warned that without a robust plan to revive livelihood for Afghans in the war-ravaged country it would be difficult to address the massive humanitarian crisis.
US envoy meets former president Karzai over girls’ schools
KABUL (SW) – The top US envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West has met former president Hamid Karzai to discuss the state of girls’ education in the country.
