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IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack: The incredible true story behind Netflix’s new plane hijacking series

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6 months ago

An Afghan Woman Activist’s Visit to Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

The Diplomat

Amid Afghanistan's turbulent transition under Taliban rule, Zerka Malyar, a former Kabul prosecutor and advocate for women’s rights, embarked on a bold mission. Their objective: to advocate for the resumption of girls’ education in the country and confront Taliban officials on critical issues of women’s civil liberties. Malyar and her team sought to confront the Taliban on the critical issue …

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9 months ago

Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide bombing of Kandahar bank

The Independent

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9 months ago

At least three killed in suicide bombing in Afghan city of Kandahar

Al Jazeera

At least 12 others wounded in blast that targeted a group of people waiting outside a bank in city centre. At least three people have been killed and 12 others wounded in a suicide bombing in front of a bank in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city, according to local police and officials. The explosion at around 8:00am targeted a group of people …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma to lead Anubhav Sinha’s ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’; first look pictures out

The Hindu

Netflix India has unveiled the cast and first look of IC814: The Kandahar Hijack, a drama thriller based on the famous hijacking of an Indian Airlines airbus carrying about 180 passengers in the final days of 1999. It stars Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Verma, Manoj Pahwa, Kumud Mishra, Arvind Swamy and Patralekha among others. A plot description from the streamer reads, …

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10 months ago

Afghanistan: Taliban prohibits Kandahar officials from photographing 'living things'

Firstpost

Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, the main base of the Taliban, issued an order on Sunday forbidding its employees from capturing pictures or videos of “living things” The province's Department of Interior sent a letter to civil and military officials instructing them "not to take pictures of living things during your formal and informal gatherings, as it causes more harm than …

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1 year, 3 months ago

From an old-style Afghan camera, a new view of life under the Taliban emerges

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The odd device draws curious onlookers everywhere. On Afghan city streets today, billboard In the years after the 2001 U.S. invasion and the ouster of the Taliban regime, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd spent months on assignment in Afghanistan and learned how to use a traditional Afghan “box camera,” a handmade camera and darkroom in one. “People …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education

The Hindu

The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief spokesman said in an interview marking the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country. "It will serve for as long as it can and as long as the emir isn’t removed for doing something that goes against …

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1 year, 4 months ago

The Taliban believe their rule is open-ended and don’t plan to lift the ban on female education

Associated Press

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief spokesman said in an interview marking the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country. “It will serve for as long as it can and as long as the emir isn’t removed for doing something …

Women Afghanistan Girls Taliban Anniversary Supreme Ban

1 year, 4 months ago

2 Years of Structural Violence and Humanitarian Crisis Under the Taliban

The Diplomat

The Taliban chose to mark the second anniversary of their return to power, on August 15, 2023, with much pomp and show. Although still unrecognized by almost all countries of the world and reeling from an acute and unceasing financial crisis and lack of ability to govern the country, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid chose the occasion to interact with the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Kamal Davar | The quagmire of Afghanistan as Kabul, Kandahar in a power tussle

Deccan Chronicle

Down the ages, Afghanistan, the land where many “Great Games” have been enacted, continues to baffle its rulers and neighbours as it brings misery to its impoverished and fratricidal strife-torn suffering people. That the Taliban have reneged on most of its promises given to the US and the international community prior to the American exit, especially on freedom of speech, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Taliban slam ‘baseless and biased’ UN report suggesting rifts and conflict within their ranks

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban condemned on Sunday a “baseless and biased” report from the U.N. Security Council highlighting rifts within the group’s ranks. A report — issued earlier in June — by the U.N. Security Council’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said that the Taliban governance structures remain “highly exclusionary, Pashtun-centred and repressive” toward all forms of opposition. The …

Taliban Report Kabul Kandahar

1 year, 8 months ago

Why is Afghanistan probing educational projects in Kandahar?

Firstpost

Meanwhile, Girls cannot go to school beyond sixth grade in Afghanistan, with the education ban extending to universities New Delhi: The spokesperson of the Kandahar Education Department, Mutwakul Ahmed has said that they have been instructed by the leadership of the Ministry of Education to suspend the activities of regional classes and all educational institutions in this province until further …

Education Taliban Kandahar

1 year, 10 months ago

Taliban's Growing Differences with Islamabad: Why Afghanistan Can't Be Pakistan's Strategic Depth

News 18

Participating in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference on February 18 and in a subsequent media interview the next day, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari implicitly pleaded with the international community to build the Taliban government capacities to take on international terrorist groups operating on its soil provided it demonstrated the will to do so. It is …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Time for India to keep an eye on Kabul as all’s not well in Afghanistan and Taliban-Pakistan ties

Firstpost

Participating in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference on 18 February and in a subsequent media interview the next day, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari implicitly pleaded with the international community to build the Taliban government capacities to take on international terrorist groups operating on its soil provided it demonstrated the will to do so. It is …

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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

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — 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. The Taliban have typically dealt with internal differences behind the scenes, and Haqqani’s comments “are a major escalation,” said …

Women School Taliban Public Islamic Kabul Kandahar

1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

The Independent

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

India Today

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 an implicit criticism of the movement’s reclusive supreme leader. The Taliban have typically dealt with internal differences behind the scenes, and Haqqani’s comments “are a major escalation,” said Michael …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban on women working for national and international non-governmental groups. “They all say that they want …

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2 years ago

Afghanistan: Male students walk out in protest after Taliban bans women from universities

Op India

A day after the Taliban regime in Sharia-governed Afghanistan banned women students from universities, several male students at the Nangarhar University in Jalalabad and at Kandahar University in Afghanistan reportedly staged a protest and expressed solidarity with the women. Male students at Nangarhar university are walking away from their exam in a show of solidarity with the female students to …

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2 years ago

‘Unprovoked’ firing from Afghan forces kills civilians: Pakistan

Al Jazeera

At least six civilians killed and 17 others wounded in ‘unprovoked and indiscriminate’ firing by Afghan forces, the Pakistan army says. At least six civilians have been killed by “unprovoked” firing from Afghan forces near the Chaman border, Pakistan’s military said, in the latest deadly flare-up at the border between the neighbouring countries. The Pakistani army’s media wing said on …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Did Republican Senate candidate order 'unnecessary' airstrike that killed three Americans in 2001?

Daily Mail

And a former officer said Bolduc was desperate to be able to say he joined in the fighting before the Taliban surrendered in their area Don Bolduc's campaign for the Senate has made much of the way he led 'horse soldiers' in Afghanistan fighting terrorists in the immediate aftermath, for which he won a Purple Heart after a 2000lb bomb …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Taliban put up posters in Kandahar: 'Women without hijab trying to look like animals'

Firstpost

Despite promises made by the Taliban to reinstate a softer version of their previous harsh system of governance, women of Afghanistan have been living under stringent restrictions since the return of the group in August The Taliban’s religious police have put up posters across the southern Afghan city of Kandahar saying that Muslim women who do not wear an Islamic …

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IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack: The incredible true story behind Netflix’s new plane hijacking series

An Afghan Woman Activist’s Visit to Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide bombing of Kandahar bank

At least three killed in suicide bombing in Afghan city of Kandahar

Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma to lead Anubhav Sinha’s ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’; first look pictures out

Afghanistan: Taliban prohibits Kandahar officials from photographing 'living things'

From an old-style Afghan camera, a new view of life under the Taliban emerges

Taliban believe Afghanistan rule is ‘open-ended’, don’t plan to lift ban on female education

The Taliban believe their rule is open-ended and don’t plan to lift the ban on female education

2 Years of Structural Violence and Humanitarian Crisis Under the Taliban

Kamal Davar | The quagmire of Afghanistan as Kabul, Kandahar in a power tussle

Taliban slam ‘baseless and biased’ UN report suggesting rifts and conflict within their ranks

Why is Afghanistan probing educational projects in Kandahar?

Taliban's Growing Differences with Islamabad: Why Afghanistan Can't Be Pakistan's Strategic Depth

Time for India to keep an eye on Kabul as all’s not well in Afghanistan and Taliban-Pakistan ties

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

Afghanistan: Male students walk out in protest after Taliban bans women from universities

‘Unprovoked’ firing from Afghan forces kills civilians: Pakistan

Did Republican Senate candidate order 'unnecessary' airstrike that killed three Americans in 2001?

Taliban put up posters in Kandahar: 'Women without hijab trying to look like animals'