Taliban Tortures NRF Members Inside Bagram Prison, Claims NRF Commander

The programme included dinner and poetry reading and was held as part of the "Welcome" project to support Afghan women living in the United States.

Meghan Markle met with Afghan women who sought refuge in the United States after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on Saturday night.

In the programme, Afghan women shared their experiences and discussed different cultures and traditions.

The purpose of this event is to create cultural exchange and solidarity among the participants.

At the invitation, guests read poetry and shared their experiences of immigration and new life in the United States. Also, Afghan women were served Middle Eastern cuisine at the meeting.

"We continue to uplift women and strengthen society through shared experiences, and we emphasise on the importance of unity and support during difficult times," the Archewell Foundation wrote.

Meghan Markle, the British king's daughter-in-law, had previously met with Afghan women in Southern California in February 2023, and at that time they had cooked with 15 Afghan women.

This programme is organised by the Archewell Foundation and Mina’s List. Since 2014, Mina’s List has been working with women activists and political leaders in Afghanistan to promote gender equality, and in 2021 it helped evacuate and resettle more than 2,000 Afghan women and families.

This visit and the efforts of Afghan women activists abroad indicate the deterioration of the situation of women and the human rights crisis inside Afghanistan. Women and girls in Afghanistan are subject to the Taliban's most severe restrictions and have been deprived of the right to education, work, and social and political activities. Human rights organisations have accused the Taliban of widespread human rights violations and say the Taliban have established "gender apartheid”.

In this meeting, the credentials of the representatives of Afghanistan, Myanmar and Libya were reviewed.

Members of the committee, including the United States, China and Russia, attended the meeting.

According to the proposal of the chairman of the committee, the review of the credentials of the representative of Afghanistan was postponed.

This is the fourth time that the United Nations has rejected the Taliban's request to hand over the UN seat to the group's representative.

Currently, the seat of Afghanistan is held by Nasir Ahmad Faiq, a representative of the former Afghan government.

The Taliban's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nominated Suhail Shaheen as its representative to the United Nations, but the United Nations does not recognise Shaheen as Afghanistan's representative.

Several suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack and investigations are ongoing, the statement said.

In a statement released on Friday (November 22), the Taliban's police command in Baghlan called the incident a "mysterious" attack.

The victims worked during the day and came to the monastery at night to worship, the statement said.

On Friday morning, sources reported to Afghanistan International that gunmen opened fire on a "circle of Sufis" in a monastery in Nahrin district.

According to information received by Afghanistan International, the victims of the attack were Sufis.

At the same time, pictures have reached Afghanistan International showing the funeral ceremonies of the victims of the deadly Baghlan attack.

Farhadi said that the ministry has no intention of separating immigrant students from Iranian students.

A spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Education said on Friday (November 22) that about 600,000 foreign students are studying in the country's schools, the majority of whom are Afghans.

The official stressed that the rumours circulating in the media about the construction of special schools for immigrants and the separation of students are not true. Previously, rumours about the separation of immigrant students from Iranian students had been spread on some websites.

The spokesperson of the Iranian Ministry of Education clarified that in some neighbourhoods in Iran, the population density of immigrants is high, and for this reason, the number of immigrant students is more prominent in the schools of those neighbourhoods. He added that the Ministry of Education does not believe in the establishment of special schools for immigrants.

Ali Farhadi acknowledged that coexistence and interaction between Iranian and immigrant students leads to an improvement in the cultural environment and increased social interactions. The Ministry of Education supports this method of education, he said.

The statement said that Mullah Zakir, the Taliban's deputy commander, was killed in the attack at the Bagram Airfield. So far, the Taliban have not responded to the Afghanistan Freedom Front's claim.

Earlier, Afghanistan International had reported that the Taliban had transferred hundreds of people accused of being members of armed anti-Taliban fronts, such as the Afghanistan Freedom Front and the National Resistance Front, to Bagram prison.

Bagram prison is part of Bagram Air Base, which was held by the US-led international coalition for the past two decades and served as the main centre of the fight against the Taliban and ISIS.

It held hundreds of "dangerous" prisoners, including Taliban and ISIS commanders and fighters. With the withdrawal of international forces and the fall of the Afghan government, the Taliban captured the base and released the prisoners.

In September this year, sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban had activated the prison and transferred a number of prisoners there. A source said that the Taliban had also transferred some of the former government's military prisoners to Bagram airfield.