A month after seizing Kabul, the Taliban face daunting issues as they search to transform their lightning army victory right into a sturdy peacetime authorities.
After 4 a long time of struggle and the deaths of tens of hundreds of individuals, safety has largely improved, however Afghanistan’s financial system is in ruins regardless of tons of of billions of {dollars} in improvement spending over the previous 20 years. While a lot consideration within the West has centered on whether or not the brand new Taliban authorities will hold its guarantees to guard girls’s rights or supply shelter to militant teams like al Qaeda, for a lot of Afghans the primary precedence is easy survival.
Here are a few of the key tales to observe:
UN says rural Afghans have crucial want for help
UN official says 4 million Afghans are dealing with “a food emergency,” with the bulk in rural areas the place there’s a crucial want for funding for planting winter wheat, feed for livestock and money help for weak households, aged and disabled.
In Kabul, first help flights have began to reach because the airport reopens and worldwide donors have pledged over $1 billion to stop what United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned might be “the collapse of an entire country.”
Pakistan’s function in enabling Taliban is victory for hardliners, says high US senator
The function of Pakistan in enabling the Taliban is a victory for the hardliners within the nation’s authorities, Republican Senator Marco Rubio mentioned throughout a Congressional listening to on Afghanistan on Thursday.
Rubio mentioned a number of US administrations had been responsible of ignoring Pakistan’s function in serving to the Taliban to regroup, as different US senators expressed concern over the “double dealing” of Islamabad.
Explained: What have Taliban mentioned about girls’s training thus far?
Ever because the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the plight of ladies within the nation has been the main target of dialogue internationally. During its earlier authorities (1996-2001), the Taliban had banned ladies from colleges and academic institutes.
Earlier this week, the group’s newly shaped all-male interim authorities allowed feminine college students to attend non-public universities however with harsh restrictions. Several non-public universities resumed lessons within the nation as pictures of scholars sitting in lecture rooms partitioned with curtains made rounds on social media, shortly after the Taliban’s announcement.
