6 Involved in Attack at Kaaj Educational Center Killed in Kabul, Says Taliban

Earlier, Hamid Karzai had stated that he was banned from leaving Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The former president of Afghanistan told Der Spiegel magazine that he was not allowed to leave Kabul and every time he had attempted to travel, the Taliban had prevented him.

On the first day of the escape of former president Ashraf Ghani on August 15, 2021, from Kabul, a video was circulated on social media in which Karzai, along with his children, said that he will not leave the country.

The report stated that the ammunition from previous wars were left around outposts of the former government.

Over the past few years, explosives and planted mines have been one of the main factors of Afghanistan people’s death, especially children.

Over the past four decades of war, almost all of the involved parties created minefields for taking down the opponent.

Earlier, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) had said that clearing Afghanistan from mines and ammunition would at least need 10 years.

The goal of the military exercise has been stated as to prepare member countries to deal with terrorists crossing Central Asian borders from Afghanistan.

The military exercise’s practical operations took place at the Harbmaydon training site near the border with Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and Tajikistan have 1,300 kilometers of joint borders.

This exercise has been carried out while Emomali Rahmon, the president of Tajikistan, said that tens of thousands of suicide bombers are being trained in Afghanistan and many terrorists have been active near the borders of the two countries.

Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. In the past year, these countries held several military exercises on the borders of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan near Afghanistan.

She added that the social and personal exclusion of women in Afghanistan is an example of violence against women.

Nusseibeh urged for concrete actions with regard to Afghan women and added, "It is not enough to talk about empowering women, and we must give them power."

She added that women's share in economic activities increases their ability to deal with violence.

Since regaining control of Afghanistan in 2021, women do not have peace and freedom even in their personal affairs such as freedom of dressing, traveling, shopping, going to parks and hotels, hospitals, driving cars or even mourning at the mosques and prayer halls.

It should be noted that it has been over a year that girls above the sixth grade have not been allowed to attend school due to various excuses by the Taliban.

Bennett has emphasised that during his visit to Afghanistan, he had informative meetings with the people concerned and visited important regions.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights visited Panjshir province on Wednesday and met with local Taliban officials and residents of the region.

Bennett’s visit to Panjshir comes at a time when the residents of Paryan district of the province had protested against the Taliban.

Last month, following the Taliban’s killing of the members of the National Resistance Front (NRF) forces in cold blood in Panjshir, Bennett had asked the Taliban to investigate the killings. However, his stance had been met with criticisms by the NRF officials.