Afghanistan report
Taliban Shoot Dead Young Man, Display His Body to the Public in Afghanistan’s Andarab
The Taliban on Thursday shot dead a young man in Afghanistan’s Baghlan and publicly displayed his body at Andarab district market. Residents marched with the corpse to Andarab district capital and sought explanation from the Taliban regarding the incident, news agency ANI reported citing Afghanistan’s news agencies.
The Afghan news agencies said the Taliban forced the resident of the Andarab area to come out of his house and killed him on Wednesday.
They fired shots in the air to disperse people who gathered in front of the district building lodging their protest against the act.
The killing of the youth comes a day after the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) report revealed that Taliban killed many ex-security forces and employees in the past 10 months after coming to power in August 2021. at now.
Afghanistan is now facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The Afghan economy has no cash to pay salaries or buy food. Western aid has been suspended because the Taliban government includes designated terrorists. And millions of Afghans face acute malnutrition and starvation in the coming months.
Taliban say Afghanistan earthquake rescue efforts almost complete
Health ministry says aid has begun to arrive to the area affected by the earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people.
Aid has started to arrive in a remote part of Afghanistan where an earthquake killed at least 1,000 people, as Taliban officials said the rescue operation was almost complete.
The magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck early on Wednesday about 160km (100 miles) southeast of Kabul, in arid mountains dotted with small settlements near the border with Pakistan.
More aid arrives in Afghanistan in boost to quake relief efforts
Pakistan and Qatar join other aid agencies in efforts to help people desperate for food, shelter and drinking water.
Cargo planes from Pakistan and Qatar carrying relief material for Afghan earthquake survivors have landed at the Khost airport, officials said on Saturday, as rescuers struggle to deliver aid to remote regions in the wake of Wednesday’s devastating earthquake.
Thousands have been left homeless or injured by the magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Paktika and Khost provinces, which state media said killed 1,150 people. An aftershock on Friday took five more lives.
The United Nations children’s agency representative in Afghanistan said 121 children were among those killed and that figure was expected to climb.
Authorities have now ended the search for survivors from the earthquake that also wounded nearly 2,000 people in what is being billed as the deadliest disaster in nearly two decades.
People in Paktika province have been desperate for food, shelter and drinking water, as humanitarian aid slowed down due to poor infrastructure as well as diplomatic and financial isolation of the Afghan government led by the Taliban.
Survivor Dawlat Khan in the district of Gayan in Paktika province said five members of his family were injured and his house was destroyed in the earthquake.
“We are facing many problems. We need all kind of support, and we request the international community and Afghans who can help to come forward and help us,” he said.
Mansoor Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador in the Afghan capital of Kabul, said relief goods dispatched by Pakistan on Saturday were handed over to Taliban officials.
“It was our duty to help our Afghan brethren at this difficult time,” he said.
Shabir Ahmad Osmani, director of Khost’s information and culture directorate, said the Islamic Emirate is grateful for the help coming in from both inside and outside Afghanistan, but that all efforts should focus on providing victims with what they need to return to their normal lives.
“Whether the aid is big or small, what matters the most, is that support should be coming into rebuild these people’s homes,” he told Al Jazeera outside the Khost Airport, where international assistance is starting to be flown in.
Nadima Noor, an Afghan-Canadian influencer and aid worker, spent the last few days travelling around Urgan and Gaiyan in Paktika province. She said she the destruction she witnessed was unfathomable.
“I’ve never seen this many dead bodies, this many injured people, this much destruction,” Noor told Al Jazeera. “I was talking to one mother who lost 18 members of her family, can you imagine that? People now need the most basic things, we have to help them put back their lives.”
Noor said one young man she met in Gaiyan talked about how the community banded together to help one another.
“He turned to me and said, ‘We only lost my mom and dad but this other house lost eight people. So as soon as I pulled my mother out, we jumped to the other house. We kept jumping from home to home.'”
Calls for unfreezing of Afghan assets
Overstretched aid agencies said the disaster underscored the need for the international community to rethink its financial cut-off of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized the country 10 months ago when US-led forces withdrew after 20 years of war and occupation.
That policy, halting billions in development aid and freezing vital reserves, has pushed the aid-dependent economy into collapse and plunged Afghanistan deeper into humanitarian crises and near famine. Nearly 75 percent of the Afghan economy was supported by foreign aid before the Taliban takeover.
There has been a call for the United States to release Afghan frozen assets and waive sanctions to allow financial transactions.
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