'They kicked, punched me': Afghan journalist thrashed by Taliban for covering Kabul city explosion
World | May 16, 2022, 10:21 AM ISTMeanwhile, the Afghanistan National Journalists Union said restrictions on access to information is not acceptable.
Meanwhile, the Afghanistan National Journalists Union said restrictions on access to information is not acceptable.
Owners have been verbally reminded that the rule applies "even if they are husband and wife", according to Riazullah Seerat, a Taliban official at the Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the report said.
"We have failed them," said netizens for women in Afghanistan after the Taliban released new orders on Hijab. As per the statement, women must step out only is necessary and wear head-to-toe clothing in public.
The Taliban previously decided against reopening schools to girls above grade 6, reneging on an earlier promise and opting to appease their hard-line base at the expense of further alienating the international community.
India and France emphasized that there should be "zero tolerance for the use of Afghan territory for spreading terrorism in other parts of the world."
The explosion was so loud that the neighborhood of the mosque shook from the blast, the residents said, speaking on condition of anonymity, fearing for their own safety.
The India-Afghanistan syndicates smuggle goods to India through maritime as well as land-border routes and heroin is smuggled with legitimate goods and cargo, the NCB said.
Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted news of the devastating bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, saying it also wounded another 43 people, many of them students.
The powerful explosion rocked the Shiite Muslim mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 10 worshippers and injured another 40, according to a hospital official.
Since the Taliban took over the country in August last year, women of the country have become the greatest sufferers, ban on them from going to work as well as accessing education.
The RSS chief said that the speed with which the country was moving on the path of upliftment, it will take 20-25 years to become Akhand Bharat. He further said that the time would be half if upliftment picks up pace.
The propaganda campaign has exposed Pakistan's disinformation machinery to spoil communal harmony in India. It has been revealed that most of the accounts that are publishing tweets with #IndianMuslimsUnderAttack doesn't belong to India.
Pul-e-Khishti Mosque in Kabul was occupied with worshippers who had come gathered here for afternoon prayers.
The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, however, denied government employees having been stopped at the gate
Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August last year, 40 per cent of media outlets in the country, while an estimated 6,400 journalists are currently unemployed, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Dozens of women who arrived at Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international flights were told they couldn't do so without a male guardian, said officials.
The official Bakhtar News Agency announced Wang Yi will meet with Taliban leaders “to discuss various issues including the extension of political relations, economic, and transit cooperation.”
Girls were banned from attending schools in Afghanistan after the Islamic outfit-sized power in August last year. Since taking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban had rolled back women's rights in virtually every area.
A Taliban police official in Gereshk, Helmand, told residents that district-level authorities were calling for retaliation and targeting former government officials.
Siddiqui, 38, was on assignment in Afghanistan when he was killed on July 16 last year. The journalist was covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
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