Category: Security

Analysts warn cut in aid would cause catastrophe

KABUL (SW) – Analysts warn Afghanistan would face a catastrophe if the ongoing humanitarian support was halted.

Online passport registration process commences

KABUL (SW) – The online passport registration process has commenced, the General Directorate of Passports of the Ministry of Interior of the Islamic Emirate announced on Saturday.

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.

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.

Apex court in Pakistan overrules dissolution of parliament

MONITORING (SW) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday set aside deputy speaker’s ruling to dismiss the no-trust resolution against Prime Minister Imran and the subsequent dissolution of the National Assembly by the president on the PM’s advice, with all five judges unanimously voting 5-0 against it.

Extraction work at Qashqari oil field commences

SAR-I-PUL (SW) – The extraction work at Qashqari oil field in Sar-i-Pul province has commenced.

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.