No one knows the fate of two female activists and four male colleagues arrested by the Taliban in the past two weeks, seven female activists and protesters in Kabul tell Zan Times. In the most high profile case, Zarifa Yaqoubi, a prominent women’s rights activist, and four male colleagues were arrested by the Taliban on …
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Heavy snowfall near Bakak Kotel has left around 150 travellers stranded on the Ghor-Kabul highway since Sunday. And they say conditions are worsening as they ask for immediate help. “We left Ghor for Kabul yesterday morning. Eight vehicles, vans, and cars, are stuck near Bakak Kotel due to heavy snow and a storm,” explains Khair …
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Around 18.9 million Afghans out of a total population of around 40 million face “potentially life-threatening levels of hunger—including nearly six million facing near-famine conditions—from June to November 2022,” says the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), in its latest report. The SIGAR report – which is published quarterly for the …
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Two children died in the same district of Kapisa province on the weekend and while their deaths occurred a day apart, they serve to highlight the capricious nature of life and death that is ever-present in Afghanistan. Both deaths occurred in Tagab district. On Sunday, a Taliban gunman was speeding on his motorcycle when he …
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Members of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice publicly flogged 18 men and women after Friday prayers in the Jame Mosque in Taloqan capital of Takhar province on November 11. “Women were arrested for not wearing a burqa or walking in the market without a mahram,” says an eyewitness …
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