Afghanistan

Taliban bans teaching of Jafari jurisprudence at Bamiyan University

Taliban bans teaching of Jafari jurisprudence at Bamiyan University

The Taliban movement issued instructions forbidding the teaching of Jafari jurisprudence at Bamiyan University in the Afghan Shia province of Bamiyan. Muhammad Muhaqiq, head of the Islamic Unity Party, said that the Hanafi jurisprudence at Bamiyan University has replaced the…
Terror and starvation besiege the Hazara Shias in Afghanistan

Terror and starvation besiege the Hazara Shias in Afghanistan

Shias in Afghanistan live under the threat of terrorism, starvation and deliberate marginalization due to the policies of the Taliban regime.The Taliban movement, which claims to have restored Islamic law to Afghanistan, implements a clear policy of discrimination and marginalization…
Shia Rights Watch condemns attack on the Shia religious authority office in Afghanistan

Shia Rights Watch condemns attack on the Shia religious authority office in Afghanistan

Shia Rights Watch expresses its strong condemnation of the irresponsible attack by the Taliban movement in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, against one of the offices of the Shia religious authorities, warning against the consequences of such actions against Shias. The organization…
Start of construction on first Husseiniyah in the Himalayas with the efforts of Sayyed al-Shuhada Committee

Start of construction on first Husseiniyah in the Himalayas with the efforts of Sayyed al-Shuhada Committee

The Sayyed al-Shuhada Committee, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority, has begun building the first Husseiniyah and Islamic center in the Himalayas in Afghanistan, adjacent to the mountainous borders of China. In a statement received by Shia Waves News Agency,…
Afghan women protest against Taliban’s restriction on their rights

Afghan women protest against Taliban’s restriction on their rights

About two dozen Afghan women chanting “bread, work, freedom” protested in the capital on Sunday against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. “Education is my right! Reopen schools!” chanted the protesters, many of them wearing face-covering veils, as they…
UN: 1.1 million Afghan children under five could face severe malnutrition this year

UN: 1.1 million Afghan children under five could face severe malnutrition this year

In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the U.N., as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children are brought into hospital wards. U.N. and other…
At least 14 killed after explosions rock Afghan cities

At least 14 killed after explosions rock Afghan cities

At least 14 people were killed and 32 others wounded in four explosions that rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday, authorities said. In Kabul, at least five worshippers were killed and 17 others wounded after…
UNSC expresses concern over increasing erosion of respect for human rights and freedoms of women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

UNSC expresses concern over increasing erosion of respect for human rights and freedoms of women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

The United Nations Security Council called on the Taliban to “swiftly reverse” policies restricting human rights and freedoms for Afghan women, in a unanimously adopted statement amid fears the Taliban was setting the clock back on women’s rights. The move…
Taliban forces Afghan women TV anchors to cover faces

Taliban forces Afghan women TV anchors to cover faces

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have started to enforce a new order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on air. The Information and Culture Ministry announced that the policy was “final and non-negotiable”. “It…
The Shirazi Religious Authority provides food aid to families of the martyrs of Mazar-i-Sharif

The Shirazi Religious Authority provides food aid to families of the martyrs of Mazar-i-Sharif

The Shirazi Religious Authority did not stand idly by in front of the tragedies that the Afghans are subjected to, especially in their ongoing extermination at the hands of terrorist movements. Afghanistan witnessed a horrific terrorist bombing in the city…
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