A month after seizing Kabul, the Taliban face frustrating problems as they seek to convert their lightning military win into a durable hostilities government.
After four decades of war and the deaths of lookers of thousands of people, security has largely perfected, but Afghanistan’s skimping is in rubble despite hundreds of billions of bones in development spending over the quondam 20 stretches. While significant attention in the West has riveted on whether the new Taliban government will keep its vows to screen women’s rights or offer retreat to militant groups like al Qaeda, for multitudinous Afghans the main right-of-way is simple survival.
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US President Joe Biden’s top press members unsuccessfully tried to inhibit him from pulling all US service from Afghanistan, hoping he’d work the retirement to seek a political disposition, a new book says.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pushed for a slower drawdown to encourage give-and-takes between the Taliban and Afghan government, according to “ Peril,” a forthcoming book by star investigative pressman Bob Woodwardco-authored with his Washington Post coworker Robert Costa.
Blinken, a longtime helpmeet to Biden who had anteriorly staunchly backed his plan to end the 20- stretch war, called the presider from Brussels after hearing firms from NATO ministers in a March meeting, the book says, as reported by Agence France Presse.
“ His new recommendation was to extend the detail with US military for a while to see if it could yield a political covenant. Buy time for concessions,” it says, according to a passage published by CNN ahead of the book’s release following week.
Month since escaping Taliban, exile Afghan Sikhs uncertain about future
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Baldeep Singh, an Afghan Sikh, who fled to India after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, knows three languages, including Hindi and French, but has been having a hard time chancing a job to feed his family.
This is the case not only with Sikhs who arrived in the midst of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, but also those who left the country anteriorly, said the 24- space-old, who’s at present living in New Mahavir Nagar.
Around 73 Afghan Sikhs came to India since Taliban’s usurpation of the country. A some families have left for Punjab where they’ve relations. The bones in Delhi depend on the help from Gurdwara Guru Arjan Dev in New Mahavir Nagar, PTI reported. At least six suchlike families have been living in the gurdwara since they completed their required siege period at the ITBP installation in Chhawla area.
Amarjit Singh, 45, was among the 49 Afghani Sikhs who flew into Delhi from Kabul via Dushanbe on an Air India flight last month. He has been putting up at the gurdwara along with his woman and five children, one of them aged three months. “ The Taliban does n’t watch for its own people, forget about Sikhs. You have no idea what these people are going through,” he said.
Iran resumes marketable bunks to Afghanistan
Iran Wednesday continued marketable bunks to Afghanistan that had been halted after the Taliban assumed power, news agencies reported. The semiofficial Fars news agency reported that a waiver return flight transported passengers from Tehran to Kabul. It said a other flight from northeastern cosmopolis of Mashhad left for Kabul, too.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s civil flying ministry has approached Pakistan with a request to let its two airlines continue marketable flight operations between the two countries.
The Ministry of Aviation and Transport of Afghanistan, in a letter to Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), requested it to permit operations of Ariana Afghan Airlines and Kam Air on the ground of a bilateral memorandum of understanding, reported Dawn organ, which claimed to have a facsimile of the letter dated September 13.
The letter claimed that the Kabul Airport was damaged by American service before their retreat, notwithstanding, “ by specialized lift of our Qatar Brother, the Field went running once again”.
‘This is how we dress’Afghan women overseas pose in variegated wearables
Afghan youth rights activist Wazhma Sayle says she was shocked to see a snapshot online, putatively of women dressed in black all- boxing niqabs and gowns, presenting a demonstration in support of the country’s new Taliban sovereigns at Kabul University.
The 36- while-old, who’s rested in Sweden, thereafter posted a snapshot of herself on Twitter dressed in a bright green and steely dress titled “ This is Afghan culture & how we dress! Anything less either this doesn’t represent Afghan women!”
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Other Afghan women overseas have posted parallel moviemaking, striking a passion in Kabul. “ It’s good our women (overseas) were good to protest about it,” said Khatima, a youngish woman in Kabul.
When the Taliban was in power two decades ago, women had to cover themselves from head to toe. Those who broke the rules sometimes suffered downgrade and public beatings by the Taliban’s religious police. While the new Taliban jurisdiction has promised to allow women more freedoms, there have been reports of women being barred from going to work, and some being beaten in recent weeks for protesting Taliban rule.
Running out of bones, Afghan banks ask Taliban for added cash
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Afghanistan’s banks are running out of bones, and may have to close their doors to accounts unless the Taliban government releases bankroll soon, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The cash squeeze threatens to upend the country’s before bombarded penny-pinching, largely dependent on hundreds of millions of bones sent by the United States to the central bank in Kabul that make their way to Afghans through banks.
One month since the Taliban captured the capital of Kabul, bankers trouble largest bones could inflate the cost of food or electricity and make it harder to swing significances, spelling more misery for Afghans.
Although the cash crunch has lasted weeks, the country’s banks have in recent days hourly stressed their interests to the new government and central bank, two of the people said.
China backs Taliban’s demand to US to flux Afghanistan’s fortune
China on Wednesday supported the Taliban’s demand that the US should flux Afghanistan’s fortune and said that America has no lawful reasons to do so as the Chinese envoy to Kabul called on acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and complimented the interim government.
According to reports from Washington, the US has concreted about USD9.5 billion in capital belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank and stopped shipments of cash to Kabul, in a go to keep the Taliban government from penetrating the Croesus.
Chinese Foreign Ministry mouthpiece Zhao Lijian told newshounds in Beijing that the US has no legit reasons to harden Afghanistan’s substance. Asked about the Taliban’s demand that the US should coagulate Afghanistan’s substance stating that they belong to the people of Afghanistan and the interim government will take a legal action possible to get the finances released, Zhao said “ I suppose that the (Taliban’s) spokesman is right.” “ These worth belong to the Afghan people. They (the US) should respond to the licit requests of the Afghan people and stop the wrong practice of warrants and stop making obstacles for Afghanistan’s peace and reconstruction,” he said. (AP)
Anti-laundering unit goes out-grid, rasping Afghan ties to global finance
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A unit in Afghanistan’s central bank leading a 15- stretch trouble to oppose unlawful fosterage flows has halted operations, four staff members said, overhanging to accelerate the country’s slide out of the global dollars-and-cents system.
Since 2006, the Dollars-and-cents Deals and Reports Analysis Center of Afghanistan has gathered intelligence on thousands of suspicious sales and helped condemn contrabandists and terrorist financiers, according to its website. UN officeholders have said the Taliban made hundreds of millions of bones from the medications trade and other illegal sources when they were fighting government colors. The group has pledged there would be no medication civilization in Afghanistan from now.
736 Afghans recorded for new enrollment in India fromAug. 1 toSept. 11 UNHCR
A whole of 736 Afghans were recorded for new registry fromAug. 1 toSept. 11, the UNHCR said presently, adding that it’s spanning up its capacity to meet swelling requests for registry and support of Afghans in India.
The UN expatriate agency said it’s in constant dialogue with the government on matters pertaining to Afghan citizens, including allotment and extensions of visa, backing, and answers.
Afghan womanish footballers elude Taliban, reach Pakistan
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Thirty-two women football players from Afghanistan, who were facing imminences from the Taliban, have reached Pakistan along with their families after the government issued crisis benevolent visas to empty them, according to a media report on Wednesday.
The footballers belonging to the civil less girls’ brigade had been originally due to journey to Qatar, where Afghan émigrés have been housed at a complex for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, but were left stranded after the Kabul debacle blast. These women were facing imminences from the Taliban due to their involvement in the sport, Dawn gazette reported.
Will assist for Afghanistan strengthen the Taliban?
In Kabul, first aid bunks have started to arrive as the airdrome reopens and foreign benefactors have pledged over$ 1 billion to forestall what United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alerted could be “ the collapse of an entire country.” Legion countries that were willing to feed aid have inchmeal expressed hesitancy due to enterprises about how coffers will be spent with the Taliban in power.
