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5 years
Cute and happy #Afghan boy dances at the @ICRC_af orthopaedics center after he got a prosthetic leg. He was a victim of a landmine. via @roya_musawi
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Alireza Ahmadi, a dear journalist friend and his younger brother, were among the dead victims of yesterday’s #KabulAirport attack. He worked for different local media outlets for over a decade as a writer, photographer and reporter, giving voice for his people. RIP brother
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The Taliban captured the fifth army corps headquarters just in four days. Only a commando corps and an army division in Kabul are still under govt’s control. It means the Taliban might have seized around 70% of Afghan military equipments — all donated by US.
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The death toll of last night's suicide attack on a wedding party in #Kabul jumped to 63. Over 180 were also wounded.
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My heart breaks into pieces for my people who have lined up outside the banks to cash their savings and waiting at the gates foreign embassies to secure visas to leave. #Afghanistanisburning #Afganistan #Kabul
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Taliban have seized nearly 100% of the military equipment which were donated to AF forces by the US. So now the Taliban army has access to advanced equipment & technology that other countries can only wish for but few actually have them. Blackhawks, humvees, MSVFs,M4, M16 &....
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Powerful photo from today’s women protest against Talibs in #Kabul , #Afghanistan .
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Some call him a “warlord,” others respect him as an “Amir,” Ismail Khan, a former Mujahid in his 70s, picked up his Klashinkov, ran towards his city’s gate to fight an advancing #Taliban army. It was him & his militias who prevented the fall of #Herat city yesterday.
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Everyone talks about the collapse of Ghani's govt. But few people speak about the collapse on an entire generation, men&women, who worked hard for a better future, and hoped to live&die in Afg. Now they have to a make a choice: lose their freedoms or leave the country they love.
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I have never seen #Kabul as distressful and sad as now. I can see fear on the face of every person walking in the streets. Young urbanite men and women are all worried what may happen next.
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Mohammad Raheb, a public policy student, was among dead victims of today’s attack at #Kabul University. He was a motivational speaker. In a short video circulating on social media he asks everyone not to “forget smiling” even if the life is “painful” and “sad.”
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19 years ago yesterday, the #Taliban dynamited and destroyed the monumental buddha sculptures in #Bamiyan .
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Sharif Hassan
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Najma Saadeqi, a former anchor of a local TV station, was also killed in #KabulAirport attack, AF Journalists Center says.
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The death toll of #Kabul school attack increased to 94, teachers say. Mostly schoolgirls.
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Sharif Hassan
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The number of women, who protested against the Taliban in Herat and Kabul, is not more than a hundred. But their courage equals to thousands. They basically risk their lives, marching in the streets, demanding equality and the rights to study and work. #Afghanistan
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Rahmani, a girls school principal, was killed by the #Taliban in Malistan, relatives in #Kabul say. He spent about a decade educating thousands of girls in Pai-Jolga E Pashi village. photo via social media
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The photo of Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, who was more responsive and active than the entire team of Ghani’s spokespeople — for over a decade. I have spoken with him & texted him a lot. But this is the first time I am seeing his face.
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A small group of brave women protested in #kabul today, demanding the rights to work, education. #Afghanistan
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Another day begins in #Kabul , and a small group of female protesters are in the streets ---again. "I will sing the song of freedom, again and again," a sign held by one reads. #Afghanistan
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“Education is our right,” dozens of female protesters are chanting on the streets of #Herat , a day after the massacre of 35 students, mostly girls, in #Kabul . #Afghanistan
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roadside fruits stalls of #kabul in the evenings. #Afganistan
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
Your tired of anguish, my homeland Your without song and melody, my homeland Your pained but without medicine, my homeland Sharafat Parwani, a popular singer who was recently evacuated, sings the song somewhere in a military base or refugee camp in the US. #Afghanistan
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Friends in #Kabul say most Talib fighters prefer to beg for food in the streets or starve to death but they don't steal, extort, or accept bribe --- a stark contrast from the police force of the previous govt. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
Forces loyal to VP Amrullah Saleh and other northern leaders have driven the #Taliban out of at least one district in Baghlan province, a local source just told me. He said 15 Talibs were killed &10 captured. This is the first attack on the Taliban after the fall of Ghani’s govt.
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Sharif Hassan
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This is a US air force plane, evacuating Afghans to Qatar. It is a Reuters photo, also published by the New York Times. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
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I can’t understand how a force of over 300000, with annual budget of 3-4 billion$$$, equipped with humvees, MSFVs, helicopters, A-29 fighters, and advanced weapons is crumbling so quickly & so easily? An entire army corps surrendered to the Taliban in Kunduz today, WaPo reports.
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The BBC has found at least 20 civilians have been killed in #Panjshir . One was a shopkeeper, who was arrested by the Taliban for selling sim cards to resistance fighters. His body was found days later, and signs of torture were seen on it.
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Afghans from all over the country flooded into #Kabul , fleeing their homes after Taliban captured their towns and villages. Mosques and parks are packed with children, women, men in different parts of the city. They have nowhere else to go if the violence erupts in Kabul.
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
One reason behind the collapse of Ghani’s govt was that he, his allies&majority of Afghans rarely acknowledged or even spoke about the internal dimension of the war. For them,Pak was behind everything, even when a son blew up himself inside his own house to kill his pro-govt dad.
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Ghani could cut a good deal with the Taliban 3 months ago. He refused to do so. Now he has fled. And Afghans, who are overwhelmingly against the Taliban ideology, have to pay the price of his mistakes. It is so unfair. Afghans will never forgive Ghani&his 2 minions, Mohib&Fazly.
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Sharif Hassan
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Taliban entered the Czech Republic embassy in #Kabul , found its alcohol storage, falsely claiming it was Salahuddin Rabbani’s house. Rabbani is a prominent anti-Taliban political leader who fled Kabul after the collapse of Ghani’s govt.
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Sharif Hassan
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Taliban fighters have launched their largest attack to capture #Panjsher this evening. Anti-Taliban forces, which include former fighters of senior Massoud and soldiers of the collapsed govt, have been able to push back every attack in the past three days. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
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Just watched a video of a Taliban commander in Kabul assuring a small group of female doctors and nurses that they can continue working, telling them not to “worry” and that the “society needs” their service.
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Sharif Hassan
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The Talibs fought hard to get what they have now. But let’s not forget that two other guys also helped them tremendously. One is Ghani, who failed every Afghan miserably. The other is Biden, who gave away all the investments of his country in AF to Talibs just in a week.
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Ahmad Massoud, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, is also raising militias — naming them as the 2th resistance — to stand up against the Taliban n the north. Can he fill the vacuum his father left behind 20 years ago? Can he gain the respect of northern alliance leaders, like his father?
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Sharif Hassan
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Haibatullah Akhundzada will be named as the leader, Mullah Baradar as the head of executive branch. Mullah Yaqob, Seraj Haqqani and Sadar Ibrahim will occupy other important positions. It doesn’t seem like an “inclusive” govt to me. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
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Tolo photographs show Talibs sitting on parliament seats in #kabul . What a tragic end to two decades of electoral democracy in #Afghanistan .
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Sharif Hassan
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#StopHazaraGenocide has been tweeted over five million times since last week, making it the most widely used hashtag in #Afghanistan ’s history.
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Sharif Hassan
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This is the #Afghanistan that makes me hopeful for the future. Photos of young men and women taking university entrance exam in Daikundi province in central AF.
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
Blinken says Ghani told him that he intended to "fight to the death." And the next day he fled. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
Taliban detained two journalists in Herat on Aug 1. They were held for 20 minutes, interrogated, then released after Zabihullah Mujahid intervened. Afghan govt detained four journalists in Kandahar on July 25. They are still in captivity.
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Sharif Hassan
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Four explosions targeted buses and vans full of passengers in Shia/Hazara neighborhood of west #Kabul in last 48 hours. At least 18 killed and 19 wounded, police said. All victims were civilians. This is an absolute massacre.
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
Ghani claims he fled because he feared the Taliban would execute him. It may not be true. All other leaders are in Kabul & haven’t be harmed yet. But even it was true, was his life more important than 10000s of govt forces who were killed since he became the “commander-in-chief?”
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Sharif Hassan
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#Taliban fighters reached the gate of Mazar-e-Sharif, the largest city in the north of #Afghanistan , this afternoon, posing for photo. Govt says its forces pushed the insurgents away but the fact they can get to the gate of a major city so easily speaks a lot about the situation.
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
Dear Imran Khan, The sun cannot be hidden by two fingers. You know, We know — and the world knows where the Taliban leaders are.
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
A Talib leader, his scary bodyguards armed with M4s, and a — journalist, his cameras, pen and notebook — all in one room.
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
The price of a Burqa, head-to-toe cover, was between 500-600 AFs but now it has jumped to 1500-2500, a female journalist in Kabul just told me. #afghanistanwomen #Afghanishtan Social media photo
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Sharif Hassan
2 years
women in #Bamyan disrupted a gathering which was held in support of Talibs. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
A group of young men threw a music party in Bamyan city this evening, celebrating a small victory over #Taliban in the province. Govt and local uprising forces recaptured Saighan and Kahmard districts today two days after they fell to the Taliban. #Afghanistan Pic: social media
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Sharif Hassan
4 years
Video of a #pomegranate juice cart in #Kabul , #Afghanistan . I paid 100 AFs, a little over one dollar, for two cups of fresh juice.
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Sharif Hassan
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Taliban leaders ordered their fighters to attack #Panjshir , a province which has never been controlled by them -- not now, not in the 1990s. This is according to @Metmaeen , a political analyst, who has close ties with the #Taliban .
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#Taliban chopped off Saifullah Safi’s right index finger for voting in 2014 presidential election. But he didn’t give up his right, voted again today, dipped his left finger into indelible ink bottle. #AfghanistanElection via @SamimArif
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Sharif Hassan
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Sohrab Azimi, an Afghan special forces commander, was killed in a Taliban ambush today in northern #Afghanistan . He was a highly educated military officer with years of counterterrorism experience.
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Strongmen with close ties to local #Taliban officials have forced hundreds of Hazara families to leave thier villages, lands&homes in Daikundi, EtilaatRoz and 8am Newspapers report. Talibs have ordered the villagers not to even take thier own agriculture products when they leave.
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Sharif Hassan
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Trump said Isis leader #alBaghdadi “died like a dog.” Isn’t unfair to dogs? A dog would never do to its fellow dogs what he did to his fellow human beings.
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There is no Hazara/Shia in the Taliban’s cabinet, meaning between 15-20% of #Afghanistan ’s population has no representation in the govt.
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Nemat Naqdi, the Etilaat Roz journalist, who was beaten by the Talibs two weeks ago, has lost an ear drum and 40% of the vision in the left eye, Zaki Daryabi, the newspaper’s publisher says. #Afghanistan
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The Taliban and their supporters won but an entire generation who hoped and worked for a democratic #Afghanistan — lost. And their loss is much bigger than the Taliban’s win.
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A Taliban leader told TOLONEWS that they found a million $$$ cash inside the presidential palace, 800000 in one place and 200000 in the other. He suspected those are the leftovers of millions of $$$ Ghani & aides allegedly stole when they fled. #Afghanistan
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Panjshir, a small but very important province where Soviets & Talibs were both defeated by late Ahmad Shah Massoud, hasn’t surrendered to the #Taliban yet. The announcement in which VP Saleh said,he is the legitimate caretaker after Ghani fled,was apparently made from #Panjshir .
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Three weeks after #Kabul school attack, the family of Shukria is still looking to find her. She was probably very close to the blast site, most likely torn into pieces. But it is very hard for her grieving parents to accept the reality. They are still hoping for a miracle.
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A grieving father sleeps beside son’s grave. The son, a university lecturer, was killed in a roadside bomb explosion two days ago. Tragedy never ends in #Afghanistan . photo via 1TV
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
The Taliban say the fighter, who beat a Tolo News journalist few days ago, has been identified. “He will soon face trial,” a Talib official told us.
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Sharif Hassan
2 years
Unkraine is under attack, but its president hasn’t fled and abandoned his nation.
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Sharif Hassan
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Talibs banging on the door of Tamana Paryani’s house this evening in #Kabul , as she calls for “help” and begs “plz come tomorrow.” Paryani has been protesting against the Talibs in the past five months. She was disconnected after sharing this video with Aamaj news agency.
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Fresh pomegranate juice cart in downtown of #Kabul . #streetphotography #Afghanistan
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“There was no proof [Osama Bin Laden] was involved” in the 9/11 attacks, Zabihullah Mujahid of #Taliban tells NBC news. “There is no evidence even after 20 years of war, we have no proof he was involved… There was no justification for this war. It was excuse for war.” #Afg
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So Talibs were hosting Al-Qaeda chief in #Kabul 's diplomatic enclave.
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Sharif Hassan
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Dozens of women protested against the #Taliban in #Herat . “We wanted to show our power to the Taliban…If we stay in our houses, we can’t show our power but the Taliban can impose more restrictions on us to remove us from society and politics slowly.”
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females beggars waiting outside a bakery somewhere in #kabul , #Afghanistan , hoping someone buy them a loaf of bread.
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Maroof Sadat, an Afghan journalist, was assassinated in Jalalabad, #Afghanistan , local media reports. He is the third journalist killed since the Taliban’s takeover. Two others were killed in #KabulAirport explosion in August.
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I dont understand why so many Afghans, who live in EU & North America and enjoy the freedom in those countries, are lobbying for a Taliban comeback. If Taliban are so good then why these Afghans aren’t coming back to AF to live under the militant’s flag in Baghran dis of Helmand.
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At least 24 high school students were killed in yesterday’s suicide attack in a Hazara/Shia district of #Kabul city. #Isis claimed responsibility.
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ایستاده گی اوکراینی ها در مقابل ظالم و ایستاده گی سریلانکای ها در مقابل دزدان فاسد و ناکارا، هر دو بیان کننده عظمت هر دو ملت است. اما ما مردم افغانستان نه در مقابل دزدی های غنی بابا ایستاد شدیم،نه در مقابل ظلم طالب. ما از رهبرها شکایت داریم، اما در واقیعت ما هم چندان مردم نیستیم.
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Taliban’s deputy PM, Hanifi, seems to have more power in the current govt than his fellow Uzbek, Dostum, who was Ghani’s VP from 2014-19. Dostum spent most of his vice presidency n exile whereas Hanifi is involved in every important decision Talibs make, from eco to politics,etc.
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Aqila, Atefa, Amina & 15 other schoolgirls were buried on a hilltop west of #Kabul city. Small groups of people visited the graveyard this late afternoon, some lit candles, others prayed for the soul of teenage girls whose lives were taken too soon.
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This photo of #KabulProtest has gone viral. A Talib pointing a US-made M16 at protesters --- most likely at female protester.
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Afghans launched a social media campaign, demanding more protection for Hazara/Shia in #Afghanistan after the recent deadly attacks on the community in #Kabul , using hashtags #HazaraLivesMatter & #StopHazaraGenocide .
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Female anchor of TOLONEWS is interviewing a Talib official. It is the most important development in the last two days, I think. Taliban are actually showing they are different now. Photo via @MiraqaPopal
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The Taliban haven't met Hazara/Shia leaders yet to engage them in talks about the formation of the future govt. (I haven't seen news about this.) Hazaras make up between 15-20 percent of #Afghanistan 's population and any govt without their presence isn't/cant be "inclusive."
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Sharif Hassan
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while all eyes are on #Ukraine , #Talibs have begun a massive campaign of house-to-house search in #kabul city, and northern provinces.
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Sharif Hassan
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Reports about the fall of #Panjshir are apparently false.
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Sharif Hassan
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One of the two journalists, who were detained yesterday, said he was forced to lay to the ground on stomach, handcuffed behind his back, then the #Taliban fighters began kicking him in the face and flogging him on his buttocks. They continued hitting until he fell unconscious.
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Sharif Hassan
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170 Afghans and 13 US service members were killed and at least 200 wounded in #KabulAirport explosions, making it the deadliest attack in #Kabul since 2001. Deadlier than Germany embassy attack in 2017, and much more deadlier than the girls school blasts in May. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
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“I had to sacrifice myself in order to save Kabul," Ghani told BBC. But many Afghans think the opposite: He sacrificed Kabul to save himself.
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Sharif Hassan
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Talibs have warned thousands of Hazara Shia families to leave their houses in Wali Asr town in #Mazar_e_Sharif , according to reports by BBC Farsi & Independent Farsi. This comes after they forcefully displaced hundreds of families from #Daikundi . #Afghanistan
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A pregnant woman, who was a former police officer, was killed by three armed men, who said they were Taliban fighters. This incident happened in Ghor, and the victim's son calls on authorities to arrest the perpetrators. #Afghanistan
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Sharif Hassan
3 years
This photo of #kabul circulating on social media is stunning.
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My mom just told me her cousin, who was a member of local uprising forces, was killed by the #Taliban in Malistan. I met him couple of times. He was a good man. He was killed because be stood up to defend his village against the Taliban. He left three children and a wife behind.
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The Taliban gave the US two options after Ghani’s escape & the collapse of his govt & security forces: 1-The US forces should take responsibility for Kabul security Or 2- They should allow the Taliban to do so The US said they only needed the airport.
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“It is impossible to get to the airport — if you keep going and pushing, you may get shot dead and lose your life,” one Afghan man said on Friday. “I saw a teenage girl trampled yesterday. She was dead, and her father was crying.” #KabulAiport
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#Taliban ’s army chief of staff says a shipping container, full of dead bodies of the former govt’s forces, is still in KBL military hospital. Talibs are trying to find the families to hand over the bodies. My hearth breaks 4 these families. Their sons were sent to death for what?
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The day begins with another women protest in #Kabul , #Afghanistan .
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Ghani, with a force of about 300000 who were equipped with advanced equipment, surrendered, abandoning #Afghanistan & its people. But Massoud junior, who probably doesn’t have more than few thousand forces, standing against the Talibs to defend his people& the values dear to him.
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