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The last one alone is enough to debunk the whole premise that ISIS represents Islam.
I’m going to put this on queue just incase people need reminding
Wow ISIS is breaking every single one of these rules.
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A recently posted video of Taliban using US issued optics against Afghan Army soldiers at one of their bases.
This really explains a lot about how fast and effective they have been with their recent offensive against the Afghan government.
Taliban fighters in the air traffic control tower at Hamid Karai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
My Daughter, Malala - Ziauddin Yousafzai
A TED talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ziauddin_yousafzai_my_daughter_malala
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On the 16th of December 2014, the Army Public School in Peshawar was targeted by Tehrik-e-Taliban. In their classrooms, books were replaced by bullets. 132 innocent lives were lost and these were school children who were eight to eighteen years old. We can’t bring them back, but we can share the pain of the loved ones they left behind; the brave souls who are dealing with this unimaginable loss every day.
Azaad Pakistan is running a letter writing activity for the friends of the victims, and the survivors of the APS Peshawar Attack. In this letter writing activity we are inviting you to talk to the students at APS, to give them strength and to tell them that their pain hasn’t been forgotten.
Your letters would be delivered to the students directly in APS Peshawar. Please be kind and do not express anger or hate in your letters. While you’re writing these letters, please remember that these are for kids.
Send your letters by December 11, 2015 to [email protected]
PS: You don’t have to be a Pakistani to be a part of this initiative.
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This is the representation from Azaad Pakistan which visited the GHQ to meet the Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Shareef.
It was a sheer privilege visiting GHQ and seeing the level of interest from the Army Chief. We were welcomed warmly and we discussed with the chief how the campaign was run, how we managed to collect 6500+ letters and how we can work with army in the future.
We’re highly thankful to chief for his amazing gesture. Thankyou for all those who played a part in this campaign surely it was your support which made it all possible.
Today we officially wrap #RangLayeGaLahu
From left to right: (Ghalib, Sajeel, Urooba, Mahnoor, Amna, Zahra, Mehr, Haris, Haris)
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Okay. I met the Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Shareef yesterday at the GHQ to hand over the letters that we collected under #RangLayeGaLahu.
I still cannot believe it. 6500 letters. Pakistan’s army chief. GHQ. All of this. Impossible. Dreams do come true.
“I have faith in God, and I know I am standing for a noble cause with a clean heart,” she said. “I have nothing to be scared of.”
Read the story of Badam Zari, a Muslim woman aspiring to make a change through her political system on www.hijabican.com
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House of Memes (gmotd.tumblr.com)
2020-06-29
Multiple news media are reporting that Russia paid the Taliban to kill American soliders in Afghanistan. Money changed hands, and there were casualties. Tr*mp was briefed on this in MARCH, and presented with a menu of responses. There has been no response. Unless you count withdrawing U.S. troops from Germany, inviting Russia back into the G7, and having secret phone calls with Putin.
The news broke a few days ago, and it took the Tr*mp regime a few days respond. First, they claimed that Tr*mp wasn’t actually brief. They changed their story today: they say he was briefed but the intelligence wasn’t considered credible. By the time you read this, they may be peddling some other lie.
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- Attack girls for attending school
Meena Keshwar Kamal, ‘The Bravest of the Brave’
Meena was an Afghan revolutionary political activist, feminist and founder of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). She was only 20 when, in 1977, she launched RAWA, Afghanistan’s first organized movement for women’s rights. Four years later, Meena launched a bilingual feminist magazine called Payam-e-Zan (Women’s Message).
In the beginnings with RAWA, Meena started a campaign against the Russian forces and their puppet regime in 1979 and organized numerous processions and meetings in schools, colleges and Kabul University to mobilize public opinion. Payam-e-Zan has constantly exposed the criminal nature of fundamentalist groups. Meena also established Watan Schools for refugee children, a hospital and handicraft centers for refugee women in Pakistan to support Afghan women financially.
Sadly, when she was only 31, Meena was assassinated by agents of KHAD (Afghanistan branch of KGB) in Pakistan in 1987. She was married to Afghanistan Liberation Organization leader Faiz Ahmad, who himself was assassinated a year earlier, by the agents of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in 1986. They have three children, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Meena represented the struggle Middle East needs the most – the liberation from within. Not some Western forces coming to “liberate” or to “establish a democracy”, but a true change that can never be achieved by imposing it from the outside. She spoke about the history of Afghan women’s struggle for social recognition and equal rights in connection to the history of the country’s physical and cultural devastation (by different invasions and wars). She connected the two, which is what Western mainstream media so often fails to do.
Her organization, RAWA, continued with work after Meena was assassinated, and is still very active today.
Women from RAWA are doing great things and helping many people. In that sense, all those images we see of helpless and abused Afghan women in the Western media, obuscure the great role Afghan women play as agents of change in Afghanistan, and have been playing for the last couple of decades. It’s not just RAWA and Meena.
One of the things that first comes to my mind is the story of the village widowed women built on a hill overlooking Kabul. Or the storyof women’s bakery in a small village in rural Afghanistan. Or the story of Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan’s first female street artist. Or the story of Setara, singer who appeared on the Afghan Star, sang with great emotion, and included dance in her final performance, an action that put her life in danger. Or the story of Sadaf Rahimi, first female boxer in Afghan national team, who was invited to London Olympics in 2012 (at the age of 17).
There’s many stories like this, and there will be many more, because the women of Afghanistan are not just oppressed, abused and broken, but powerful, brave and active. Like Meena was.
“Hope is the thing with feathers,” Emily Dickinson wrote a long time ago, and it still keeps so many warm, and will never stops…
Meena Keshwar Kamal speaking in 1982, photo via RAWA
Text Courtesy: Middle East Revised
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Afghan women have to wear the burqa again. Who ordered that? Gilead judge Samuel Alito?
(Photo: Jalil Rezayee/epa-EFE)
Don’t sacrifice Afghan women’s rights
More than 3.5 million girls now attend primary and secondary schools, 100,000 women are enrolled in college and millions have voted for the first time in their lives. About 85,000 are teachers, health care professionals or law enforcement officials; 20% of parliamentary seats are held by women. All of that progress is at risk if the Trump administration, in its haste to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, accepts a lopsided peace agreement with the Taliban. Our view.Opposing view.
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(Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
18 years after 9/11
Precipitous withdrawal — whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Vietnam — too often has been the perfect formula for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Whomever Donald Trump picks as his next national security adviser should understand this reality. Our view.Opposing view.
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A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.
The bravest woman on Earth.
I love her. Forever reblog.
:’) The world needs persons like this girl.
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Meet Jamila Bayaz, Afghanistan’s first female police chief:
The 50-year-old mother of five says that she always dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a police officer; “I saw it as a way to help people, and I loved the uniform!” she laughs.…
Bayaz first trained during the Soviet occupation, working as a police officer until Taliban fighters invaded the capital. September 26, 1996, is a day she says she’ll never forget. “When I walked home, I changed from a police officer to an ordinary woman,” she says. “The Taliban stopped everything. It was as if they had stopped life itself.”
Twice she was beaten: once for showing an ankle and another time for taking off her burqa before she entered her house, unaware anyone was watching.
After the Taliban left, she went back to the police force.…
A few miles away from Bayaz’s police station is the Kabul stadium where the Taliban publicly lashed women.
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This is what democracy looks like.
The incredibly inspiring sights of Election Day in Afghanistan on Storify
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Yesterday, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education activist, turned 17. Tomorrow is Malala Day, a day of activism pushing for increased access to education for children around the world, especially girls. Malala is one of the most influential teenagers in the world. Here’s what, in my humble opinion, makes her so fantastic:
1.She started as a blogger. Under the name Gul Makai, she blogged for BBC throughout 2009 about living under the Taliban’s threat of denying her an education. Her identity was revealed in December of that year.
2.She survived an attempted assassination by the Taliban. There are few things more terrifying than being on the receiving end of a bullet shot by a member of a terrorist group. While on a bus home from school on October 9, 2012, a Taliban member stepped onto the bus and shot her.
3.She refused to let the Taliban’s threat intimidate her. “They thought that the bullets would silence us,” she said in a speech to the UN, “but they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices.”
4.She still pursued education after being shot. By March of the next year, she was in school in Birmingham, England.
5.Throughout turmoil, she is still dedicated to her homeland. “I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it,” she said.
6.On her 16th birthday, she gave a speech for the UN. “I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout,” she said in the speech, “but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
7.On her 17th birthday, she visited Nigeria. She met with parents of some of the 200+ girls who went missing 3 months ago and spoke on the importance of continuing to call for action.
8.She was the recipient of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize.
9. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.
10. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
11. Her attempted assassination sparked 2 million signatures on a petition that led to the ratification of Pakistan’s first right to education bill in Pakistan.
12. She wrote and published an autobiography. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban came out in October 2013.
13.She calls for nonviolence. “I do not even hate the Talib who shot me,” she said. “Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.”
14.She doesn’t want to get revenge, but rather forgives the group who is out to kill her. “If you hit a Talib with your shoe,” she said in her book, “then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.”
15. While speaking at at the UN at age 16, she pushed them to recommit to educating every child by 2015.
16. Physical appearance is not a concern for her. “I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical,“ she said in her book. "Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change.”
17.She continues to fight for human rights even though she is still targeted by the Taliban. "We will target her again and attack whenever we have the chance,” said a spokesperson of the group.
This is out of the blue! I am Afghan and I am currently living in Afghanistan. Today (15 Aug 2021) the Taliban entered the capital city of Afghanistan which is Kabul. The government is going to change to an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They ruled in Afghanistan for 5 years, 20 years ago. I’ve heard stories about them since I’m 19 and luckily was not yet born. And let me tell you the stories were terrifying, but they were just horror stories to me and I never thought that I’d be living under their regime, but here we are.
Let me tell you something shocking: girls can only study up to 6th grade. The future of female students in universities hasn’t been decided yet. According to what I’ve heard they go from house to house and ask for girls and women (12 to 45 year olds) for marriage.
As they are just pieces of crap, I don’t really believe that they’d let us have mobiles or use the internet. I really hope this isn’t my last post in here! But if it is I want to let the world know of what they’ve done and what they’re doing.
Don’t forget us!
Hello everyone,
First of all, I would like to apologize for not updating because I know you must’ve been worried. the story goes like this:
on the last few days of September 2021, we went to Iran by car. We were completely covered, so our faces couldn’t be seen. Our car was stopped by the Taliban a few times on the way to the border. They asked questions but fortunately, we were allowed to pass the Afghanistan-Iran border.
We were in Iran for a few weeks. My phone got broken, and I didn’t have a phone for about two months, which is why I couldn’t post.
In the first week of October, we arrived in Germany. I have been here ever since, trying to get settled and adapt to living here and learning the language.
As for the news about Afghanistan:
hundreds of university professors have left Afghanistan. The public universities are still closed. The private universities are open, but male and female students can’t be in the university on the same day. And even those students don’t have money to pay for tuition. Therefore, they’re gradually leaving their studies and staying at home.
Sometimes, the Taliban hang people on street squares for other people to see, claiming that they were criminals. But, who knows if they were criminals or not.
I think they’re still going a little smoother. The Taliban have said that we ‘advise’ men and boys to grow beards and women to wear full hijab. Which is still good, at least, they’re not whipping people on the streets like 20 years ago.
The economy is falling rapidly. I hear lots of news and stories that break my heart. A teacher died of hunger the other day. Several people have committed suicide due to not having money, being unemployed, and not being able to feed their children.
Even before the Taliban came, people had financial issues, especially during winter. The electricity wasn’t stable, prices for fuel, wood, and stuff would rise, and now with the Taliban being in power, it’s gotten worse.
My friends that I’m still in contact with are all looking for ways to get a scholarship and leave Afghanistan, but they aren’t able to. During the first days of evacuation, some families have been torn apart. Children were evacuated and their parents were left in the airport or the other way around.
As much as being in a safe place has been good for me, I feel out of place. Nostalgic. And it hurts me that I can’t do anything for them. Talking to my friends and hearing what they’re going through when I’m practically in another continent feels like a burden. Some of my friends don’t even have the money to pay for the internet.
These stories are way too much that I can’t even process to type down. I probably wrote everything in a disorderly fashion, which I apologize for.
Do not forget Afghanistan in your prayers. And I wish all of you a wonderful year. Happy New Year!
This is out of the blue! I am Afghan and I am currently living in Afghanistan. Today (15 Aug 2021) the Taliban entered the capital city of Afghanistan which is Kabul. The government is going to change to an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They ruled in Afghanistan for 5 years, 20 years ago. I’ve heard stories about them since I’m 19 and luckily was not yet born. And let me tell you the stories were terrifying, but they were just horror stories to me and I never thought that I’d be living under their regime, but here we are.
Let me tell you something shocking: girls can only study up to 6th grade. The future of female students in universities hasn’t been decided yet. According to what I’ve heard they go from house to house and ask for girls and women (12 to 45 year olds) for marriage.
As they are just pieces of crap, I don’t really believe that they’d let us have mobiles or use the internet. I really hope this isn’t my last post in here! But if it is I want to let the world know of what they’ve done and what they’re doing.
Don’t forget us!
Hello everyone!
I hope all of you are doing fine.
Things are still getting worse. I don’t even know where to begin.
I guess you have heard or read about the explosion in Kabul airport. It killed more than 200 people.
2 or 3 days ago a group of women went out on the streets it was like a protest and were chanting to fight for their rights because the Taliban have told them not to go to their jobs except for teachers and doctors. The Taliban got violent and hit some of them, which injured a few. Another policewoman was shot dead yesterday by the Taliban, she was pregnant, as well. They also shot a singer, a few days ago. Journalists and reporters still get whipped and beaten up. Sometimes they just start firing and shooting to scare people or for no reason, it is so terrifying. One time it happened 3 days ago and 17 people got killed with more than 30 people injured.
Panjshir is the only province that wasn’t invaded by the Taliban during all this time, and lots of people and military men (called Jabha Moqawmat/Resistance Force/جبهه مقاومت) who were against the Taliban had gone there, were upholding Panjshir and fighting against the Taliban. Last night 05/September/2021 the Pakistani helicopters and army bombarded them and killed lots of people. Politics is such a shitty thing. It’s pretty clear at this point that the Pakistan government has been supporting the Taliban all this time. We were kinda hoping that this resistance force would win the combat in panjshir, and then we would start fighting against them in our provinces.
When the Taliban were invading cities they freed all prisoners from prisons and jails, now most female judges who had sentenced those prisoners are receiving death threats from them. And as embassies are closed, nobody can leave the country.
Private universities are going to be reopened today (06/September). Female students can only go to the university if they have the right uniform which is covering everything except for the eyes, in black clothes. Women should even wear black gloves. Male and female students cannot be in the same class. Some universities have separated studying hours for female students. Some universities have created a schedule when one day all the female students go to school and the next day all male students. And some universities are separating the class by a curtain or some kind of a wall.
The Taliban are also taking boys to war with force. They just take them from the streets and God knows where they take them. A friend of mine just told me about it and that she’s hidden her two brothers at home.
So, still nothing positive.
I apologise for the long post.
Thank you very much for your support and everything you have done. All of you have been extremely kind, and most often than not it is the only thing we need.
This is out of the blue! I am Afghan and I am currently living in Afghanistan. Today (15 Aug 2021) the Taliban entered the capital city of Afghanistan which is Kabul. The government is going to change to an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They ruled in Afghanistan for 5 years, 20 years ago. I’ve heard stories about them since I’m 19 and luckily was not yet born. And let me tell you the stories were terrifying, but they were just horror stories to me and I never thought that I’d be living under their regime, but here we are.
Let me tell you something shocking: girls can only study up to 6th grade. The future of female students in universities hasn’t been decided yet. According to what I’ve heard they go from house to house and ask for girls and women (12 to 45 year olds) for marriage.
As they are just pieces of crap, I don’t really believe that they’d let us have mobiles or use the internet. I really hope this isn’t my last post in here! But if it is I want to let the world know of what they’ve done and what they’re doing.
Don’t forget us!
Hello everyone!
First of all, I should thank every single one of you for caring and praying. Every time that I’ve felt weak during the past 2 days I came here, read your messages and replies, and it certainly helped. My family and I are fine.
Before taking over Kabul, they did brutal acts against people (men and women). They killed around 30 policemen in Zaranj city and plucked their eyes out. They took a 60 years old comedian out of his home slapped him in front of everyone, shot him and sent his dead body to his family (the video can be found online, I didn’t watch it because I couldn’t). These are horrible, and only two of the hundreds of other cases that broke my heart. I didn’t mention it before because I was under the belief that our government would take revenge and would win the fight, but our President (according to the Russian embassy in Kabul with millions of dollars) and most high-profile members of the government fled from the country before the Taliban even came to Kabul. Can’t believe that I loved and respected him.
The American University of Afghanistan has been completely robbed. A few of them went to guard Kabul University so nobody steals anything, and one of those Taliban was a former student of KU .
I don’t know if any of you watched what happened 2 days ago in Kabul’s airport. Lots of people rushed to the airport to catch a flight, it was very crowded in there, the US forces fired bullets to disperse the crowd, and 3 or 5 people got killed. Some fell off the plane and died. Gunshots can still be heard from the airport, according to a friend of mine who lives close to the airport and had to leave her apartment to go somewhere safer.
I think I should mention that men are in danger as well. I have a brother, father and a friend very very close to me, and they’re under the pressure of saving their lives and their family’s lives, that’s the way it is here, men are more responsible for their families. My friend has a passport and might be able to get a visa but he can’t leave his family, because the application website for passports is down and the rest of his family don’t have passports, therefore cannot apply for Visa. And I’m sure lots of other men and boys are having the same situation. In their first rulership, the Taliban had imprisoned my father because his beard wasn’t long enough . So it’s not just oppression against women but all Afghans.
Most people wanted to start applying for Visa before the government collapsed. We thought we had time. We were wrong. We didn’t. I went to apply for Turkey’s visa and the person who was working there said that only 2 out of 100 applicants would receive visas. So lots of people who are at risk are stuck here.
I don’t want to ask a lot from you but if there’s a way for some people who are in danger to leave here and come to your country without a passport (i know I’m asking for too much) please let me know.
In the end, please do not think the Taliban are the true picture of Islam. Because they aren’t. It’s all just political. Islam is a beautiful, peaceful and kind religion.
Thank you all so much. I don’t know any of you, but you’re the kindest people I’ve ever seen.
Hello everyone!
Things are getting worse in here. Getting to the airport is nearly impossible. Even people with visas and passports can’t get to the airport. All the embassies are closed.
Worse than that, even though the Taliban has declared amnesty, they’ve made lists of previous government officials and people who worked with Afghanistan’s military forces، the national directorate of security (NDS) and with western countries. They go house to house and look for them. I don’t know what happens to those people but I’m sure not anything good.
I am pretty sure that a huge war is going to happen after the US forces leave Afghanistan, which would take place on August 31.
The prices have risen dramatically. Meat cannot be found in shops (just found out about it).
The Taliban check people’s phones at their checkpoints, look through their messages to find if there’s a contact with the person and any foreigner.
Boys and girls will be separated in universities. Only female professors can teach female students, and only male professors can teach male students.
They’ve collected all kinds of weapons from all bodyguards. If people leave their house, they check their stuff out.
2 days ago people protested against them in Nangarhar province, for taking down our national flag and while some boys were raising our flag the Taliban shot at them and killed 16. (I edited the number of deaths, I thought 3 people got killed, but just saw the news and it was 16 people).
The internet connections are getting worse and worse. Credit for sim cards is getting very scarce.
There are so many of these cases that I can’t think of most of them. My mind is a mess. I do believe that things will be getting worse, which is heart-wrenching since I can’t do a single thing about it.
Your support has been amazing! Thank you all so much. And please please do pray for us and don’t forget us.
Hi everyone!
Like I had guessed, the situation is just getting worse. As of few hours ago the Taliban have blocked roads leading to the airport for Afghans and only foreigners can get there.
They’ve whipped and tortured several journalists and cameramen on the streets while they were making reports and have taken their belongings.
They’ve reopened schools for students from 1st to 6th grade, women are not allowed to go to work until further notice. I can guess what that further notice has for women.
They’ve shot several men who worked for the Afghan army and security. They force people to leave their houses so that they can settle at their homes (I can’t say the exact case for privacy reasons).
The Taliban have asked families to give a portion of their money to Taliban, when most people are unemployed, we’re facing inflation, and the World Bank has halted its aids for Afghanistan.
That’s all the news that I can think of at the moment.
Thank you for your support and heartwarming messages. I really try to respond to messages, I know you’re worried and want to help, but my mental health is getting very bad, all I want to do is sleep, sometimes can’t even tolerate my family and we have internet connection issues. I sincerely apologise.
This is out of the blue! I am Afghan and I am currently living in Afghanistan. Today (15 Aug 2021) the Taliban entered the capital city of Afghanistan which is Kabul. The government is going to change to an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They ruled in Afghanistan for 5 years, 20 years ago. I’ve heard stories about them since I’m 19 and luckily was not yet born. And let me tell you the stories were terrifying, but they were just horror stories to me and I never thought that I’d be living under their regime, but here we are.
Let me tell you something shocking: girls can only study up to 6th grade. The future of female students in universities hasn’t been decided yet. According to what I’ve heard they go from house to house and ask for girls and women (12 to 45 year olds) for marriage.
As they are just pieces of crap, I don’t really believe that they’d let us have mobiles or use the internet. I really hope this isn’t my last post in here! But if it is I want to let the world know of what they’ve done and what they’re doing.
Don’t forget us!
Hello everyone!
First of all, I should thank every single one of you for caring and praying. Every time that I’ve felt weak during the past 2 days I came here, read your messages and replies, and it certainly helped. My family and I are fine.
Before taking over Kabul, they did brutal acts against people (men and women). They killed around 30 policemen in Zaranj city and plucked their eyes out. They took a 60 years old comedian out of his home slapped him in front of everyone, shot him and sent his dead body to his family (the video can be found online, I didn’t watch it because I couldn’t). These are horrible, and only two of the hundreds of other cases that broke my heart. I didn’t mention it before because I was under the belief that our government would take revenge and would win the fight, but our President (according to the Russian embassy in Kabul with millions of dollars) and most high-profile members of the government fled from the country before the Taliban even came to Kabul. Can’t believe that I loved and respected him.
The American University of Afghanistan has been completely robbed. A few of them went to guard Kabul University so nobody steals anything, and one of those Taliban was a former student of KU .
I don’t know if any of you watched what happened 2 days ago in Kabul’s airport. Lots of people rushed to the airport to catch a flight, it was very crowded in there, the US forces fired bullets to disperse the crowd, and 3 or 5 people got killed. Some fell off the plane and died. Gunshots can still be heard from the airport, according to a friend of mine who lives close to the airport and had to leave her apartment to go somewhere safer.
I think I should mention that men are in danger as well. I have a brother, father and a friend very very close to me, and they’re under the pressure of saving their lives and their family’s lives, that’s the way it is here, men are more responsible for their families. My friend has a passport and might be able to get a visa but he can’t leave his family, because the application website for passports is down and the rest of his family don’t have passports, therefore cannot apply for Visa. And I’m sure lots of other men and boys are having the same situation. In their first rulership, the Taliban had imprisoned my father because his beard wasn’t long enough . So it’s not just oppression against women but all Afghans.
Most people wanted to start applying for Visa before the government collapsed. We thought we had time. We were wrong. We didn’t. I went to apply for Turkey’s visa and the person who was working there said that only 2 out of 100 applicants would receive visas. So lots of people who are at risk are stuck here.
I don’t want to ask a lot from you but if there’s a way for some people who are in danger to leave here and come to your country without a passport (i know I’m asking for too much) please let me know.
In the end, please do not think the Taliban are the true picture of Islam. Because they aren’t. It’s all just political. Islam is a beautiful, peaceful and kind religion.
Thank you all so much. I don’t know any of you, but you’re the kindest people I’ve ever seen.
Hello everyone!
Things are getting worse in here. Getting to the airport is nearly impossible. Even people with visas and passports can’t get to the airport. All the embassies are closed.
Worse than that, even though the Taliban has declared amnesty, they’ve made lists of previous government officials and people who worked with Afghanistan’s military forces، the national directorate of security (NDS) and with western countries. They go house to house and look for them. I don’t know what happens to those people but I’m sure not anything good.
I am pretty sure that a huge war is going to happen after the US forces leave Afghanistan, which would take place on August 31.
The prices have risen dramatically. Meat cannot be found in shops (just found out about it).
The Taliban check people’s phones at their checkpoints, look through their messages to find if there’s a contact with the person and any foreigner.
Boys and girls will be separated in universities. Only female professors can teach female students, and only male professors can teach male students.
They’ve collected all kinds of weapons from all bodyguards. If people leave their house, they check their stuff out.
2 days ago people protested against them in Nangarhar province, for taking down our national flag and while some boys were raising our flag the Taliban shot at them and killed 16. (I edited the number of deaths, I thought 3 people got killed, but just saw the news and it was 16 people).
The internet connections are getting worse and worse. Credit for sim cards is getting very scarce.
There are so many of these cases that I can’t think of most of them. My mind is a mess. I do believe that things will be getting worse, which is heart-wrenching since I can’t do a single thing about it.
Your support has been amazing! Thank you all so much. And please please do pray for us and don’t forget us.
