The US State Department’s 2024 annual report on Afghanistan has documented extensive human rights abuses by the Taliban, including severe restrictions on women, press freedom, arbitrary detentions, suppression of civil liberties.
For four long years Afghanistan has been without a functioning government — a country without a constitution, public participation in power or women present in public life.
Sima Samar, the former chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, has called on women and men to continue resisting the Taliban’s oppression, marking the fourth anniversary of the group’s return to power.
Residents of eastern Nangarhar province who were displaced by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) fighting under the former Afghan republic say the Taliban have failed to deliver on promises to rebuild their destroyed homes, and infrastructure.
More than 6 million Afghan migrants live in Iran, including over 3 million without valid residency documents, according to figures cited by the state-run Fars News Agency.
Police in Kalat, a city in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, have issued a 72-hour ultimatum for Afghan migrants to leave the country and return to Afghanistan.
The United States has designated the separatist militant group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) as a foreign terrorist organisation, the State Department said on Monday.It described the move as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to combating terrorism.
