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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Taliban chief tells officials to enforce new morality law

Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered Afghan officials to enact a sweeping new morality law curtailing women's rights and enshrining an austere vision of Islamic society. Taliban authorities last month announced the law, which includes rules that women's faces, bodies and voices should be "covered" outside the home, among 35 articles dictating behaviour and lifestyle. The reclusive Akhundzada rules …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining 'worldly honor'

The Hindu

The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader on June 17 warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honour at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and isolated on the global stage. On June 17th’s message, Akhundzada said he wanted brotherhood among Muslims and that he was unhappy about differences between citizens and Taliban officials. Pakistani …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining ‘worldly honor’

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader on Monday warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honor at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and isolated on the global stage. In Monday’s message, Akhundzada said he wanted brotherhood among Muslims and that he was unhappy about differences between citizens and Taliban officials. Pakistani …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining ‘worldly honor’

LA Times

The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader on Monday warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honor at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and isolated on the global stage. World & Nation New Taliban leader is seen as more a teacher than a fighter, but don’t expect attacks to end When a drone strike …

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7 months ago

In Eid Message, Taliban Leader Lashes out at Critics in the International Community

The Diplomat

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada emerged on April 10 for a rare public address marking the end of Ramadan in which he pushed back on international criticism. In an audio message he said, “You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery because they conflict with your democratic principles… I represent …

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8 months ago

5 Japanese workers in Pakistan escape suicide blast targeting their van. A Pakistani bystander dies

LA Times

Pakistani investigators examine a damaged van at the site of a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday. A suicide bomber targeted a van carrying Japanese nationals in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday, police said. Initially, police said the van was heading to an industrial area where the five Japanese nationals worked when it came under attack, local …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Afghan Women Will be Stoned to Death for Adultery, Declares Taliban Leader Akhundzada in New Audio

News 18

Afghan women will be publicly flogged and stoned to death for “crimes like adultery”, Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has purportedly declared in a new audio message in which he also challenges Western democracies. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.” According to Akhundzada, women’s rights as …

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1 year, 4 months ago

The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, two years after they seized power as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two decades of war. The U.N. said they were a major obstacle to the Taliban gaining international recognition as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. But the international community will only take such …

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1 year, 4 months ago

After two years of Taliban rule, uncertainty clouds women’s education

Live Mint

Afghanistan’s universities are ready to readmit female students, but the ruling Taliban's leader has the ultimate say on when that might happen — if it happens at all, an education official said Saturday. An adviser at the Higher Education Ministry, Molvi Abdul Jabbar, said universities were ready to readmit female students as soon as Akhundzada gives the order for the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Afghan universities ready to readmit women but not until Taliban leader says it’s ok, official says

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s universities are ready to readmit female students, but the ruling Taliban’s leader has the ultimate say on when that might happen — if it happens at all, an education official said Saturday. Afghanistan’s higher education minister, Nida Mohammed Nadim, said at the time the university ban was necessary to prevent the mixing of genders and because …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Afghan supreme leader says women 'saved from oppression' by Taliban

The Hindu

Afghanistan's supreme leader said Sunday the country's women were being saved from "traditional oppressions" by the adoption of Islamic governance and their status as "free and dignified human beings" restored. In a statement marking this week's Eid al-Adha holiday, Hibatullah Akhundzada – who rarely appears in public and rules by decree from the Taliban's birthplace in Kandahar – said steps …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Taliban leader claims women are provided with a ‘comfortable and prosperous life’ in Afghanistan

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — The supreme leader of the Taliban released a message Sunday claiming that his government has taken the necessary steps for the betterment of women’s lives in Afghanistan, where women are banned from public life and work and girls’ education is severely curtailed. In his Eid message Akhundzada said that under the rule of the Islamic Emirate, concrete measures …

Women Afghanistan Taliban Islamic Akhundzada

1 year, 8 months ago

Reclusive Taliban leader releases end-of-Ramadan message

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — The reclusive top leader of the Taliban released a message Tuesday lauding the changes in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover and the measures they imposed after seizing the country following two decades of war. This, he instructed Afghans, would lead to the “well-being of our world and the hereafter, as well as eternal happiness, success and salvation of …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

The Hindu

A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as implicit criticism of the movement's reclusive supreme leader. “Monopolizing power and hurting the reputation of the entire system are not to our benefit,” Mr. Haqqani said, according to video …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Pakistan to approach Taliban chief Akhundzada, will beg Afghanistan to help control TTP

Firstpost

Kabul: With the Tehreek-i-Taliban carrying out a series of deadly attacks, the Pakistan government has been left with no other option other than begging the Taliban regime of Afghanistan to help control the Islamist militant group. A desperate Pakistan has sought Afghan Taliban chief Haibuttallah Akhundzada’s help to rein in the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban – also known as the Pakistani Taliban …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Taliban Mull Reversing College Ban on Women Amid Pressure from Top Ministers

News 18

Taliban’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is under severe pressure from powerful figures in the government to reverse his decision to ban university education for women, sources close to Afghanistan’s ruling dispensation have told CNN-News18. Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and Defence Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqub are set against the much-reviled decision to ban women from universities and are negotiating with Akhundzada …

Education Women Minister Supreme Leader Haqqani Akhundzada

2 years, 1 month ago

Public execution to stoning: Taliban asks judges to impose Sharia in rulings

Op India

On Thursday, November 18, a Taliban spokesperson said that their ‘supreme leader’ Haibatullah Akhundzada has recently ordered Afghan judges to fully execute Sharia law provisions such as public executions, stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs of persons guilty of specific offences. Taliban’s chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid had also taken to Twitter on Sunday, November 13, to inform that Haibatullah Akhundzada …

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3 years ago

Dead or alive? On the trail of the Taliban's supreme leader

India Today

When the Taliban overran Kabul in mid-August, seizing power for the second time, the years-old mystery over the whereabouts of the movement's Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada deepened further. 'Watching and crying' When the supreme leader visited, he was "armed" and accompanied by "three security guards", the madrassa's head of security Massum Shakrullah told AFP. The supreme leader's appearance scotched "rumours …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Fabricated, ISI Could be Behind it: Afghan Intel Agencies Sceptical of Akhundzada's Rare 'Public Appearance'

News 18

Highly-placed sources in Afghanistan are sceptical of news reports on Taliban claims that its reclusive supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, believed to be long dead, made a rare public appearance in Afghanistan’s Kandahar. Reports had quoted a senior Taliban leader who was purportedly present with Akhundzada during the appearance as saying that the “supreme leader” had visited Jamia Darul Aloom Hakimia, …

Taliban Isi Akhundzada

3 years, 1 month ago

Amid death rumours, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada makes first public appearance

Firstpost

The supreme leader of the Taliban mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada has made his first-ever public appearance, officials announces, addressing a meeting of supporters in southern city Kandahar Kabul: Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016. In the 10-minute recording, he …

Taliban Supreme Kabul Kandahar Public Appearance Akhundzada Haibatullah Akhundzada

3 years, 1 month ago

Taliban supreme leader makes first public appearance

Deccan Chronicle

Kabul: Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016. In the 10-minute recording, he prays for the Taliban martyrs, wounded fighters and the success of officials involved in the "big test" of rebuilding what they call the Islamic Emirate of …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Hibatullah Akhundzada to lead Taliban govt in Afghanistan

India Today

Taliban supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada will lead the new government in Afghanistan, local media quoted a Taliban spokesperson as saying on Wednesday. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the new Afghanistan government -- which will be called the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" -- will be led by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzadeh, the Tolonews reported. WHAT HIBATULLAH AKHUNDZADA HAS PROMISED After the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Hibatullah Akhundzada to lead Taliban govt in Afghanistan, say reports as chaos grips Afghans

India Today

The Taliban have announced their new leader who will lead the government in Afghanistan, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, who has so far stayed away from the public eye. Tolo News quoted Anamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission, as saying that there is no doubt that Hibatullah Akhundzada will be the head of the new Afghanistan government. It’s been …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban Govt in Afghanistan: Mullah Yaqoob and Haqqani Factions Fight for Key Posts

News 18

As the United States completed its military retreat from Afghanistan on August 31 after the 20-year-long American deployment in the war-torn country, some of the Taliban’s top leaders in Kabul have initiated talks on setting up a new government in Afghanistan. The reports of differences between Mullah Yaqoob and the Haqqani factions are doing rounds even though the Taliban leadership …

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Taliban chief tells officials to enforce new morality law

Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining 'worldly honor'

Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining ‘worldly honor’

Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining ‘worldly honor’

In Eid Message, Taliban Leader Lashes out at Critics in the International Community

5 Japanese workers in Pakistan escape suicide blast targeting their van. A Pakistani bystander dies

Afghan Women Will be Stoned to Death for Adultery, Declares Taliban Leader Akhundzada in New Audio

The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price

After two years of Taliban rule, uncertainty clouds women’s education

Afghan universities ready to readmit women but not until Taliban leader says it’s ok, official says

Afghan supreme leader says women 'saved from oppression' by Taliban

Taliban leader claims women are provided with a ‘comfortable and prosperous life’ in Afghanistan

Reclusive Taliban leader releases end-of-Ramadan message

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Pakistan to approach Taliban chief Akhundzada, will beg Afghanistan to help control TTP

Taliban Mull Reversing College Ban on Women Amid Pressure from Top Ministers

Public execution to stoning: Taliban asks judges to impose Sharia in rulings

Dead or alive? On the trail of the Taliban's supreme leader

Fabricated, ISI Could be Behind it: Afghan Intel Agencies Sceptical of Akhundzada's Rare 'Public Appearance'

Amid death rumours, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada makes first public appearance

Taliban supreme leader makes first public appearance

Hibatullah Akhundzada to lead Taliban govt in Afghanistan

Hibatullah Akhundzada to lead Taliban govt in Afghanistan, say reports as chaos grips Afghans

Taliban Govt in Afghanistan: Mullah Yaqoob and Haqqani Factions Fight for Key Posts