Month: April 2025

Kabul’s Water Crisis “nearing a tipping point”

Mercy Corps, April 2025 An alarming report by Mercy Corps showing that Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, if there is no urgent, coordinated investment. The organisation says: “Kabul’s water crisis is nearing a tipping point.” Currently, almost half of the city’s boreholes – the primary source of […]

30 Apr 2025

Tunics & turbans: Taliban-imposed school uniforms add an extra financial burden

AFP, 30 April 2025 Since the start of the school year in March, Afghan boys have been required by the Taleban regime to wear new uniforms. “Male students must wear a light blue shalwar kameez along with a cap up to the age of around 15, afterwards donning white and wearing a turban.” Teachers and […]

30 Apr 2025

Losing His Immunity: Former Afghan MP Haji Zaher extradited to US on drug charges

Rachel Reid •

Kenya is extraditing the Afghan commander and politician, Haji Abdul Zaher Qadir, to the United States, after arresting him at a hotel in Nairobi. The US has charged Haji Zaher with drug and weapons trafficking. He was a prominent police commander and then MP and deputy speaker of the Afghan parliament, and was accused, multiple […]

27 Apr 2025

Presentation to the Doha-format participants: Comprehensive approach for Afghanistan

United Nations, 17 February 2025 Afghan diaspora news platform Amu TV reports it got hold of a UN power point presentation for participants of the UN-organised Doha-format meeting on Afghanistan held on 17 February 2025 that identifies three (not new) priorities from each side (the international community and the IEA) and suggest a mixed modus […]

24 Apr 2025

A Force for Good, or Source of Coercion? An Islamic scholar reflects on the Emirate’s morality law

John Butt •

The Islamic Emirate’s law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice lays out the behaviour and actions which it deems obligatory or forbidden for Afghan men and women. It also lays out the powers of the enforcers, who have been given extensive authority to impose penalties on those they deem wrongdoers. Today, we […]

21 Apr 2025

Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan: Immer weniger Scheu vor den Taliban

Frankfurter Rundschau, 19 April 2025 In this article about the tacit moving of Germany’s position toward talks with the Taleban, from ‘technical’ contacts only to ‘discrete’ contacts about deportations, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on this aspect and on Qatar’s role in Germany’s first post-Taleban takeover deportation flight to Afghanistan in August 2024, saying that […]

19 Apr 2025

Deutschland rettet noch mal Af­gha­n*in­nen

Tageszeitung, 17 April 2025 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports (in German) about the fourth German evacuation flight for former Afghan employees of Germany and activists under threat from Islamabad in 2025 – and about the vicious right-wing campaign demanding an immediate stop of the flights. The incoming new government already announced it will stop them, “as […]

17 Apr 2025

AAN’s complete unofficial translation of the Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice

AAN is pleased to publish Islamic scholar John Butt’s complete translation of the Islamic Emirate’s law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The law specifies various actions and behaviour that the Emirate has forbidden or made obligatory for Afghan men and women. It also details the duties and powers of the ministry’s enforcers, who are granted extensive authority to impose penalties on those they have […]

13 Apr 2025

Abschiebungen unter Trump: Viele Afghanen in den USA müssen ausreisen

Tageszeitung, 13 April 2025 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, for the Berlin-based daily, summarises the reports about the Trump administration telling 14,600 Afghans (and almost 10,000 Cameroonians) with Temporary Protection Status to leave the country within seven days. He also reports the Pakistani government’s decision not to extend transit visa for Afghans staying there and expecting relocation […]

13 Apr 2025

US issues 7-Day Deadline for [14,600 TPS status] Afghan Refugees

Khaama, 12 April 2025 The dumping of Afghans – considered allies for two decades – by the Trump administration continues: US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem found the conditions in Afghanistan no longer merited US protections, according to a statement from DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin. The Khaama report says: Shawn VanDiver, President […]

12 Apr 2025

Focus Afghanistan: Rückkehr aus dem Ausland [Return from Abroad]

SEM, 14 February 2025 An analysis [in German] by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) about the situation of Afghan returnees and deportees to the IEA. It covers the following questions: Go to “Asien und Nahost” and then to “Afghanistan” via the link given above.

11 Apr 2025

The Politics of Survival in the Face of Exclusion (2): The Emirate’s accommodation and suppression of local Hazara commanders

Ali Yawar Adili •

This report examines the Taliban’s incorporation of six Hazara commanders into its ranks and how they have fared since the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate. Three of the commanders joined the Taliban during the insurgency after fleeing criminal prosecution, while the others assisted the movement’s capture of their locality in 2021. The position of all […]

8 Apr 2025