newarab (2024-09-11). Afghanistan says to begin work on huge gas pipeline. newarab.com Progress on the TAPI pipeline ⚪ running through "From today the operations will…

Juliette Rousselot (2024-09-11). Afghanistan: Oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council. fidh.org On 10 September 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) delivered an oral statement during the Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. The statement, prepared with FIDH's member organisation Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA, calls on the UN Human Rights Council to escalate its response to the situation in the country and to establish a new independent international accountability mechanism. Read the oral statement below.
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_____ (2024-09-11). Taliban label Afghanistan International an 'enemy' for reporting on alleged aid misuse. x.com

newarab (2024-09-10). UK to shut down Afghan embassy after Taliban warnings. newarab.com The In a Currently, dozens of embassies continue to operate, run…

Esha Mitra, Waging Nonviolence. (2024-09-06). Repression Backfires In Pakistan. popularresistance.org In July, hundreds of thousands of people set out for a national gathering in Gwadar, a picturesque port city on the Arabian sea in Balochistan — Pakistan's largest, but least populated, province. Making their way through an expanse of mountainous desert were the members of a severely oppressed community, the Baloch, whose population extends into neighboring Iran and Afghanistan. | At this first-of-its-kind national gathering, called Baloch Raji Munchi, people were planning to press their demand for an end to enforced disappearances, wrongful arrests and extrajudicial killings — all of which have been…

Abdul Rahman (2024-09-06). The crisis in Afghanistan is a result of US recklessness. peoplesdispatch.org The third anniversary of the end of the two decades of US war and occupation in Afghanistan coincides with a particularly contentious presidential election year in the US. Both the Democrats and Republicans are busy blaming each other for the fiasco. It is clear that Afghanistan has become yet another embarrassing episode in the long history of US imperial adventures which no one wants to take responsibility for. | Two of the top generals in the US army, Mark Miley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Kenneth McKenzie, former chief of US Central Command, who led the withdrawal from Afghanistan in Au…

Owen Schalk (2024-09-06). Canada's Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony. mronline.org Owen Schalk details how Canada's policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.

Nava J. Thakuria (2024-09-05). Pakistan Loses 10th Journalist to Assailants This Year, PEC Expresses Serious Concern. pressenza.com Geneva: Pakistan has slowly turned into a graveyard of working journalists as the South Asian nation loses another journalist, the tenth victim this year to date, to assailants. Local media reports confirm that senior journalist Nisar Lehri was shot dead on 4 September 2024 in the Mastung locality of Balochistan. Lehri (50), a member of Mastung press club, who was targeted by armed miscreants for reasons not officially disclosed. | Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the continued killing of media persons in Pakistan even though it's not witnessing…

Nava J. Thakuria (2024-09-05). Pakistan Loses 10th Journalist to Assailants This Year, PEC Expresses Serious Concern. pressenza.com Geneva: Pakistan has slowly turned into a graveyard of working journalists as the South Asian nation loses another journalist, the tenth victim this year to date, to assailants. Local media reports confirm that senior journalist Nisar Lehri was shot dead on 4 September 2024 in the Mastung locality of Balochistan. Lehri (50), a member of Mastung press club, who was targeted by armed miscreants for reasons not officially disclosed. | Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the continued killing of media persons in Pakistan even though it's not witnessing…

newarab (2024-09-04). US congressional committee subpoenas Blinken over Afghanistan. newarab.com

presstv.ir (2024-09-04). Iran's president reiterates full support for Palestinian resistance. presstv.ir President Pezeshkian made the remarks in a message delivered during the 9th International Conference of "Mujahideen in Exile."

newarab (2024-09-03). The Taliban haven't changed — open borders for Afghan women now! newarab.com

Jason Ditz (2024-09-03). ISIS Suicide Bombing Kills At Least Six in Kabul. news.antiwar.com On Monday, a suicide bombing was carried out on the southern outskirts of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. The attack killed at least six people and wounded 13 others, according to Afghan police. The strike was in the Qala Bakhtiar neighborhood. ISIS-K, the local ISIS affiliate which US officials repeatedly claimed was totally destroyed …

Islam Murad Baloch (2024-09-03). BNM Demonstrates in Amsterdam on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. pressenza.com On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Netherlands chapter of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) organized a poignant demonstration in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. This gathering aimed to raise awareness of the ongoing plight of the Baloch people, particularly the widespread practice of enforced disappearances carried out by the Pakistani military. | BNM activists passionately delivered speeches, chanting slogans that echoed through the streets of Amsterdam. They held banners, placards, and flags symbolizing the Baloch National Movement and the quest…

Andrew Korybko (2024-09-03). The CIA Isn't Responsible for the Upsurge of Terrorism in Pakistan's Balochistan Region. globalresearch.ca Ignoring the decades-old political roots of the Baloch Conflict, their new economic dimension over the past decade since CPEC, and the latest Taliban connections via its TTP partners leads to inaccurate assessments about its latest manifestations and impedes work on …

newarab (2024-09-02). Taliban, UN say committed to engagement post-morality law outcry. newarab.com A Taliban government spokesman has said the Afghan authorities were committed to engagement with the international community after a The United Nations and the European Union have

Juliette Rousselot (2024-09-02). Need for an urgent rethink of international response to the human rights crisis in Afghanistan. fidh.org

presstv.ir (2024-09-02). Iran's dash toward becoming regional gas hub. presstv.ir Iran and Turkmenistan on Wednesday signed an important energy agreement under which the two neighbors will expand gas swap cooperation.

Andrew Korybko (2024-09-01). The CIA Isn't Responsible For The Upsurge Of Terrorism In Pakistan's Balochistan Region. thealtworld.com