Xi urges Afghanistan’s neighbors to support Afghans
MONITORING (SW) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to do their best to support the Afghan people to create a brighter future.
Category: Democracy & Human Rights
AFJM paints grim picture of press freedom, free speech
KABUL (SW) – The Afghanistan Federation of Journalists and Media has painted a grim picture of press freedom in the country.
Government employees directed to grow beard, wear cap
MONITORING (SW) – The Islamic Emirate’s Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting the Evil has confirmed that last month it sent a letter to all government departments asking officials there to grow beards and wear skull caps.
Mutaqqi in Beijing to attend regional conference on Afghanistan
KABUL (SW) – The interim foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate, Amir Khan Mutaqqi has reached Beijing to attend a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries’ foreign ministers.
World Bank puts four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold
MONITORING (SW) – The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold amid concerns over a decision by the country’s ruling Islamist leaders to ban girls from returning to public high schools, the bank said.
Afghans must not be forgotten, UNDP head tells the world
MONITORING (SW) – Achim Steiner, director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has called on the leaders of the Islamic Emirate to reconsider their decision on girls’ education and press freedom.
Landsliding claims three lives in Maidan Wardak
MAIDAN CITY (SW) – At least three people got killed and two more injured following a landsliding in Maidan Wardak province on Tuesday, confirmed officials.
Foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries to meet in China
MONITORING (SW) – Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host the third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s Neighboring Countries in China on March 30 and 31. Analysts said the meeting will focus on humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and call on the US to return the Afghan people’s assets.
Head of Salam Watandar partner radio arrested in Kandahar
KANDAHAR CITY ( SW) – The local head of a Salam Watandar radio network partner station in Kandahar has been kept in custody by the forces of the Islamic Emirate for hours before being released.
‘Neglecting agriculture could lead to larger humanitarian crisis’
MONITORING (SW) -The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN has warned that neglecting agriculture would be a grave strategic mistake that could lead to a systemic collapse, and an even larger humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
UNSC urges Islamic Emirate to reopen girls schools
MONITORING (SW) – The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern over a decision by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to deny girls access to high school education and called on the group to reopen schools for female students without delay.
Islamic Emirate defend banning BBC, VOA, DW and CGTN
KABUL (SW) -The Islamic Emirate authorities have defended banning telecast of the international broadcasters’ local language programmes in Afghanistan.
