Afghanistan

EU Lawmaker Warns of ‘Digital North Korea’ as Taliban Tighten Online Controls; UNICEF Urges Lifting of Girls’ Education Ban —————————————————- A European Parliament member has warned that Afghanistan is turning into a “digital North Korea” after the Taliban tightened internet…

Pakistan Warns of Cross-Border Strikes as Tensions Escalate with Afghanistan ——————————– Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that Islamabad may carry out military action inside Afghanistan if cross-border militant attacks persist, accusing the Taliban of failing to stop the…

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated sharply after heavy overnight clashes along multiple points of the frontier, following cross-border attacks by Taliban and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters. The violence marks one of the deadliest escalations since Pakistan’s Defence Minister…

UN Warns of Looming Humanitarian Crisis as Drought Worsens in Afghanistan …………… The United Nations has issued a stark warning about the worsening drought in Afghanistan, saying severe water shortages and rising temperatures are endangering thousands of families and pushing…

Taliban Blocks Social Media Access in Multiple Afghan Provinces ……………. The Taliban has imposed new internet restrictions in Afghanistan, blocking access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, across several provinces. Residents in Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Samangan, and…

The Taliban’s diplomatic push at this week’s Moscow Format meeting coincided with a surge in violent incidents across Afghanistan, including overnight airstrikes in Kabul and strikes in southeastern provinces, while the United Nations children’s agency warned of an accelerating mental-health…

Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is deteriorating sharply, with severe child malnutrition and collapsing healthcare systems coinciding with new social restrictions and widening internal rifts within the Taliban regime. According to a Sky News report, doctors in Badakhshan province say one child…

Taliban Free 72 Prisoners in Northern Afghanistan, Excluding Political Detainees …………… The Taliban have released 72 prisoners from a jail in Afghanistan’s northern Sar-e-Pul province, while reducing the sentences of 95 others, local sources told Amu News Agency. The sources…

Taliban Bans Teachers’ Day Celebrations, Deepening Hardship for Afghan Educators …………….. Afghanistan marked World Teachers’ Day on October 5 in silence this year, after the Taliban banned all forms of celebration. The international day, observed globally to honor educators, passed…

Thousands of children in eastern Afghanistan have been left orphaned or displaced following a series of powerful earthquakes that devastated Kunar and Nangarhar provinces last month. In the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes that shook Afghanistan, aid groups warn…