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Today’s Gandhara Instruction brings you insights into the Taliban’s declared persecution of the Achakzai Pashtun people, the recruitment of previous elite Afghan task forces to sign up with Russia’s war in Ukraine, and a trick school for Afghan women.
KEEP IN MIND TO READERS: The Gandhara Instruction will next appear on December 2.
Taliban Cracks Down On Universities
RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi reports on the Taliban breaking down on Afghan universities, which have actually ended up being a hotbed of anti-Taliban demonstrations led by female trainees.
In the current event, the Taliban battered lots of female trainees who staged a rally on October 30 outside their university in Badakhshan. The event followed a group of women were barred from going into the school since of their look.
” The whippings and the inequitable guidelines are intended at preventing us from objecting and silencing the voices of women,” stated Nahid, one of the women who opposed outdoors Badakhshan University.
” We withstood and kept objecting even after we were beaten,” stated Nadia, another objecting trainee. “Eventually, we conquered the pressure and went to our classes.”
Hadia Tooba, a women’s rights activist, stated that while the “rest of the world is consumed with advancement and enhancing their lives” the Taliban is “preoccupied with the colors of our veils.”
Women Barred From Public Parks, Bathhouses
Radio Azadi reports on the Taliban disallowing women from going into public bathhouses and parks in Kabul.
” What they stated– that women can’t go to leisure locations and baths– is ludicrous,” stated Maria Tutakhil, a Kabul local. “If another decree is enforced on women, it will be that women can not even leave your house.”
The closure of public bathhouses, which are typically frequented by homeowners who do not have warm water or bathing centers at house, will strike the bad especially hard.
” Where can a mom and her kids take a bath?” asked Hamira Farhangyar, previous president of Kabul’s Cheragh Medical University.
Stopping Working Afghan Drug Rehab Centers
In this video, Radio Azadi reports on the dramatically degrading conditions at drug rehab centers in Afghanistan.
Lots Of rehab centers have actually closed or are having a hard time to stay open because worldwide donors cut or lowered financing after the Taliban took power.
” We have issues offering food, medications, and clothing for them,” stated Abdul Nasir Monqaad, the director of a 1,000-bed rehab center in Kabul.
Afghanistan has an approximated 3 million drug addicts, around 10 percent of the population.
The Taliban has actually assembled addicts and locked them up for months as a kind of treatment.
” I am terrified of going to the centers since they may beat me,” stated Noor Ali, a drug addict.
Gay Men Face Taliban Persecution
In another video report, 2 gay men informed Radio Azadi that they live in consistent fear under Taliban guideline and have to satisfy their partners in trick.
Homosexuality is a taboo subject in Afghanistan, a socially and consistently conservative nation. Numerous think about homosexuality un-Islamic and unethical, and gay men can be locked up by the state or eliminated by their family members in so-called honor killings.
However because the Taliban took power, members of the gay community state their worries have actually heightened.
” They extremely abuse and even eliminate us,” stated one gay male who fulfills his fan privately. He states his “blood freezes in his veins” whenever he sees the Taliban.
Crumbling Afghan Currency Notes
Radio Azadi reports on banknotes in Afghanistan falling to pieces. No brand-new banknotes have actually been provided because the Taliban’s takeover.
” Damaged bank notes trigger a lot of issues for company,” stated one cash changer in Kabul. “They develop issues in between store owners and clients.”
Today, Afghanistan got a batch of recently printed afghani notes under an offer with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
That’s all from me today.
Up until next time,
Abubakar Siddique
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