Afghanistan Taliban Crisis LIVE Updates Taliban fighters raided a den of the Islamic State group north of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing and arresting an unidentified number of zealots, a Taliban spokesperson said.
Since the Taliban preemption of Afghanistan inmid-August, there has been an increase in attacks by IS zealots targeting Taliban members. The Taliban and IS are adversaries, and the attacks have raised the specter of a wider conflict between the long- time rivals.
Taliban say they’ve raided IS den north of Kabul
Taliban fighters raided a den of the Islamic State group north of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing and arresting an unidentified number of zealots, a Taliban spokesperson said. Since the Taliban preemption of Afghanistan inmid-August, there has been an increase in attacks by IS zealots targeting Taliban members. The Taliban and IS are adversaries, and the attacks have raised the specter of a wider conflict between the long- time rivals.
Afghan girls stuck at home, staying for Taliban plan tore-open seminaries
.As the weeks pass in Afghanistan, the new Taliban administration has yet to advertise when it’llre-open secondary seminaries for girls, leaving them stuck at home while their sisters return to class. Two weeks since boys in classes above the sixth grade were told to go back to academy, the government says it’s working on making it possible for girls to do the same.
“ My request to the Islamic Emirate is that girls be allowed to go to academy,” said Marwa, a Kabul snip, using the term the Taliban use to describe their government. “ Also ( womanish) preceptors should be allowed to go to academy and educate girls.”
The issue has come decreasingly important as the rest of the world, whose aid plutocrat Afghanistan desperately needs, tries to gauge whether the new Taliban government will give women and girls lesser freedoms than the last time it was in power.
“ Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” appointed envoy seeks UN recognition
Suhail Shaheen, the United Nations envoy nominated by the “ Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” (IEA) has formerly again prompted the world body to honor him as the representative of the Taliban- ruled country, saying the former Kabul government “ exists no more”.
The UN last month rejected Shaheen’s appointment as Afghanistan’s representative, extending the term of Ghulam Mohammad Isaczai, the endless representative of Afghanistan to the UN appointed by the former chairman Ashraf Ghan- led administration.
The Islamic Emirate’s appointed envoy to the UN, Shaheen, formerly again called on the UN to allow him to represent Afghanistan, Tolo News reported. Shaheen, the Taliban spokesperson, said that since the former government of Afghanistan has collapsed, its envoy can not represent Afghanistan, it said.
Afghan kiosk at Dubai world fair stays shut after Taliban preemption
Hours after the world exhibit fair opened in Dubai on Friday, Afghanistan’s kiosk remained unrestricted to callers in a sign of the challenges facing the country’s new Taliban autocrats. Afghanistan is one of nearly 200 nations sharing in the six-month show that was awarded to Dubai eight times agone and faced a time-long detention to the launch due to the epidemic.
But the country’s kiosk, which was organised by the former Afghan government before it was driven from power by the Taliban last month, remained untreated and closed to callers on Friday. A security guard at the structure where the kiosk is located said they hadn’t seen any one work there in weeks. It wasn’t incontinently clear whether the kiosk, listed on signage around the4.3 sq km purpose- erected point, would open at a after date during the exhibit show.