Commentary Recognizing the Taliban goes against what the United States should stand for in the 21st century. Recently, a former CIA officer Douglas London wrote in Foreign Policy arguing that the United States should bite the bullet and recognize the Taliban. Reports from intelligence community sources suggest this has been actively discussed on the inside; consequently, London isn’t…
UN Says Afghanistan Meeting Not About Recognizing Taliban Leadership
The United Nations said Thursday that its upcoming meeting in Doha, Qatar, will not focus on the Taliban recognition but on building a “unified consensus” with the international community regarding Afghanistan. This came after U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said the U.N. intended to convene a meeting with envoys from across the region to discuss…
Canada Really Has to Reassess Which World Citizens It Is ‘Rescuing’
Commentary When I was in high school I was quite proud to read that average Canadians, as well as the government of the day, were front and centre in the effort to bring Vietnamese “boat people” (as they were called then) to our shores. Upwards of 60,000 refugees fleeing the new communist regime which arose…
2 Chinese Citizens Arrested in Afghanistan on Suspicion of Smuggling Lithium
January 25, 2023
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The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has arrested five men, including two Chinese citizens. They are suspected of smuggling about 1,000 tons of lithium-containing stones out of the country. The regime’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on Jan. 21 that it had seized about 300 tons of these stones in Nangarhar province, and about 700…
Cut the Gordian Knot of Pakistani Support for the Taliban; Support Afghan Resistance
Commentary A major road to weakening the Taliban goes through Islamabad and its notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Anti-Taliban strategy can’t work without dealing with the ISI. One such possibility could be to offer to recognize Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal as a fact in exchange for suspending support for the Taliban; however, that would upset India. Taliban…
Taliban Bans Afghan Women From Pursuing University Education
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan on Tuesday barred women from attending universities in its latest decree to restrict Afghan women’s rights and freedoms, drawing an international outcry. The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education spokesman, Ziaullah Hashmi, reportedly shared a letter informing private and public universities of the cabinet’s instruction to deny access to all female…
UN Experts Call for Investigating Taliban’s Treatment of Women After Public Lashings
November 27, 2022
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The United Nations’ Special Rapporteurs have called for investigating the issue of subjugation of women’s rights in Afghanistan by the Taliban as gender persecution after reports of women being subject to lashings. In Afghanistan, the violation of women’s fundamental rights, which are already “severe and unacceptable,” have risen in recent months, the experts said according…
Taliban Releases American Hostage in Exchange for Afghan Drug Trafficker
The Taliban has released an American engineer they’d kept captive since 2020 in exchange for a Taliban-linked Afghan tribal leader, who was serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison on heroin trafficking charges. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the prisoner exchange between American hostage Mark Frerichs and Taliban ally Bashir Noorzai took…
Taliban Enforcing Face-Cover Order for Female TV Anchors
ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s Taliban terrorist group on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists. After the order was announced Thursday, only a handful of news outlets complied. But on Sunday, most…
Hope for Women, Afghan Unity Fades as Taliban Hardliners Gain Control
Last August, Americans were glued to the news, watching the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the rapid collapse of the Afghan government into Taliban hands. But within a few weeks, the news cycle moved on and Afghanistan fell off the radar for most causal observers. Obviously, forgetting is not an option for…
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