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Six Months of Taliban: Afghans Safer, Poorer, Less Hopeful

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule. The country feels safer, less violent than it has in decades, but the once aid-fueled economy is barreling toward collapse. Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled or have been evacuated, including large numbers of the educated…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gulf Countries Urge against Afghanistan Being Used to Launch Terror Attacks

Representatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held talks with a Taliban delegation, led by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Qatar’s capital, Doha, on Monday. They discussed the situation in Afghanistan and means to address the challenges facing humanitarian work in the country. GCC officials expressed concern that “terrorist…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Six months of Taliban: Afghans safer, poorer, less hopeful

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule

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Long-term refugee targets ‘would help west regain moral purpose’

Under former Tory MP Rory Stewart’s plans, countries would take in an agreed number of refugees annually

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan letting India deliver wheat to hungry Afghanistan

Pakistan is allowing nuclear rival India to deliver tons of wheat to ease food shortages in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

'My heart and body shake': Afghan women defy Taliban

KABUL: One after the other, quickly, carefully, keeping their heads down, a group of Afghan women step into a small Kabul apartment block -- risking their lives as a nascent resistance against the Taliban.

Bangkok Post

Taliban call on Biden to reverse move to halve frozen Afghan funds

The Taliban on Monday warned that it would reconsider its policy towards the United States if President Joe Biden did not reverse his "unjustified" decision to return only half of Afghanistan's $7 billion deposited on U.S. soil.

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Gulf envoys stress women’s rights in meeting with Taliban FM

Ambassadors from Gulf countries meet the Afghan foreign minister as he seeks funding to tackle a humanitarian crisis.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on a Kabul heist: snatching money from the starving

Editorial: Afghans are not to blame for 9/11, though they have paid for it many times over. Cruelly, they are being punished again

The Guardian - UK

Estimated one million Afghan children engaged in labour: NGO

Save the Children says almost one fifth of 1,400 surveyed families say they have to send their children to work.

Al Jazeera

The Taliban forced Afghan TV workers into hiding. Now they’re asking Hollywood for help

Television industry employees once used their programs to address progressive ideas. Many are now out of work and fearful to leave their homes

The Guardian - US

Pakistan’s PM warns Afghanistan could descend into chaos

The U.S. refusal to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, coupled with sanctions and frozen assets, could push the country into chaos and threaten Pakistan’s stability, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday.

Tribune News Service

Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity

Afghanistan’s former president has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people

The Independent UK

Taliban have detained 29 women and their families in Kabul, says US envoy

Report by senior diplomat Rina Amiri raises concerns about number of ‘unjust detentions’ in Afghanistan

The Guardian - UK

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Six months after the fall of Kabul, Afghan families reflect on the road that led them to Perth

Ali Rahmani still cannot believe his family made it out of Afghanistan when they were forced to flee the Taliban. Six months later, they could not be more grateful to call Perth home, but memories of their homeland will always be tinged with trauma.

The Guardian - AU

Government plans to send Hazara asylum seeker back to Afghanistan may face high court challenge

Immigration minister Alex Hawke argued the initial decision to send the asylum seeker back to Afghanistan should be upheld regardless of Taliban rule

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afghans Protest US Order to Give $3.5B to 9/11 Victims

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the US for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans. Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the…

Reuters

Afghan central bank says U.S. plan for frozen funds an 'injustice'

Afghanistan's central bank on Saturday criticised Washington's plan to use half the bank's $7 billion in frozen assets on U.S. soil for humanitarian aid and set aside the rest to possibly satisfy lawsuits over the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

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The Hindu

India signs MoU to hand over wheat to WFP in Kandahar

First aid convoy through Pakistan expected this month.

The Independent UK

Afghans protest US order to give $3.5 B to 9/11 victims

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital have condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims

The Independent UK

‘Nothing short of theft’: Biden administration under fire for allocating Afghan funds to 9/11 lawsuits

White House says the move is aimed at ‘keeping them out of the hands of the Taliban and malicious actors’

Al Jazeera

‘Theft’: Advocates decry US decision to withhold Afghan funds

President Biden’s move to put aside Afghan funds for 9/11 victims sets ‘problematic precedent’, advocates say.

The Independent UK

British journalist detained in Afghanistan released by Taliban

Former BBC South Asia correspondent Andrew North has been released, the PA news agency understands.

The Independent UK

Swiss group: Taliban make pledges on education, aid workers

Organizers of a closed-door conference in Switzerland attended by envoys from Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership says the delegation pledged to safeguard humanitarian aid workers, facilitate education for all Afghans, and to promote environmental protections

Reuters

Swiss raise rights concerns, including girls' education, with Afghan Taliban

Switzerland has raised concerns about human rights in Afghanistan, including about girls' education, in a meeting with the Taliban, a government spokesman said on Friday, as the new rulers in Kabul wrapped up a week of talks in Geneva.

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