n a move to supress media freedom in Afghanistan, the Taliban have introduced‘11 rules’against news organisations. The decision was taken to put an veto on publishing content that’s in conflict with Islam or wounding to public personalities.
The New York Times in a report mentioned that the Taliban have also asked the reporters to write or feature news points in teamwork with government media services.
ndia and the US have called on the Taliban to hew to its commitments and consider the mortal rights of all Afghans, including women, children and nonage groups, and asked the new potentates in Kabul to make sure that the war- torn country’s niche is nowise again used to menace or attack any country or to haven or train terrorists.
In a US-India Concerted Leaders’Statement issued after the first in-person bilateral meeting between US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Friday, the two leaders emphasized the magnitude of combating terrorism in Afghanistan.
The two leaders resolved that the Taliban must abide by UNSC Resolution 2593 (2021) which demands that Afghan home must nowise again be used to menace or attack any country or to harborage or train terrorists, or to plan or finance terrorist attacks, and emphasized the magnitude of combating terrorism in Afghanistan, according to the concerted statement.
The UN Security Council resolution 2593 on Afghanistan, espoused under India’s Presidency of the 15- nation Council in August, had demanded that Afghan niche not be used to menace or attack any country or to refuge or train terrorists, or to plan or to finance terrorist acts, and reiterated the momentousness of combating terrorism in Afghanistan, including those integers and integers designated pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999), and noted the Taliban’s material commitments.
President Biden and Prime Minister Modi called on the Taliban to hew to these and all other commitments, including regarding the safe, secure, and orderly departure from Afghanistan of Afghans and all foreign freemen and to consider the mortal rights of all Afghans, including women, children, and members of nonage groups, the statement said.
The Taliban, which took control of Kabul on August 15, have put in place a inflexible interim 33- member Cabinet that has no women and includesUN-designated terrorists. The Taliban last ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.