Analysts see polls, Jirga pivotal to earn international legitimacy
KABUL (SW) – Analysts believe it is pivotal for the Islamic Emirate to orchestrate elections or the traditional Loya Jirga (council of elders) to earn international legitimacy.
Category: Democracy & Human Rights
Call for unconditional release of detained journalists
KABUL (SW) – The Free Speech Hub has expressed grim concerns over the arrest of two private TV journalists by the Islamic Emirate forces in Kabul on Monday.
Mujahed rejects UN report on killing of former security personnel
KABUL (SW) – Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have denied a UN report that 100 members of the former government’s security forces have been killed.
135 children died of pneumonia, malnutrition
MONITORING (SW) – In December last year alone, 135 children in Afghanistan died of pneumonia and malnutrition in hospitals or on the road, according to the UNICEF.
Biden links recognition of Islamic Emirate to release of Navy veteran
MONITORING (SW) – US President Joe Biden on Sunday called for the release of US Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, saying his release was “not negotiable” if the Taliban regime were to expect any consideration of being recognized as legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.
Officials optimistic about visit by Pakistan’s NSA
KABUL (SW) – Officials of the Islamic Emirate believe the recent trip to Kabul by Pakistan’s National Security Adviser was a positive development.
US urged to lift Afghans out of crisis by unfreezing state assets
KABUL (SW) – Shah Mohammad Mehrabi, a member of the High Council of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, said that Afghanistan’s economy was collapsing and that the United States could prevent it from collapsing.
UN Chief calls for women rights to education, employment and justice
MONITORING (SW) – The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate not to deny women and girls their rights to education, employment and equal justice.
Biden gets two weeks to decide on frozen Afghan assets
MONITORING (SW) – A United States judge on Friday gave the Biden administration two weeks to decide what should be done with $7 billion of frozen Afghanistan central bank funds, which some victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks want and which the Taliban claims is theirs.
Pakistan’s NSA arrives in Kabul for talks with Islamic Emirate officials
KABUL (SW) – A high-level inter-ministerial delegation by Pakistan led by National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf arrived in Kabul on Saturday.
Bamyan hosts ski training session without women athletes
GHAZNI (SW) – Bamyan has hosted the maiden three-day ski competition, but without the usual participation of women athletes since the rise to power of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.
US, Allies push Islamic Emirate in Oslo on human rights in Afghanistan
MONITORING (SW) – The US and Allies have urged the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan to do more towards ensuring human rights in Afghanistan and allowing girls to access higher education and job opportunities.
