7 killed, 3 wounded in Afghanistan last week

KABUL (Pajhwok): Islamic Emirate supreme leader last week said no one was allowed to interfere in internal affairs of the country, but UNAMA said the issue of human rights was not about interference and China once again asked Kabul to consider the international community’s demands.

Last week’s key events:

• IEA: We interfere in no one’s affairs, want same from others
• Mullah Baradar: Foreigners encourage Afghans to leave country
• Potzel: HR issue no interference in Afghanistan affairs
• China: Afghanistan makes some achievements, needs to win world’s trust
• Ministry of Vice & Virtue asks officials to pay attention to women’s rights
• Calls renewed for reopening of girls’ schools
• MoD: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan should return Afghanistan’s aircrafts

Casualties

Seven people were killed and three others were injured in separate incidents of violence across the country last week.

According to reports, three people were killed and one wounded as a result of a clash between two families in Paktia, a 20-year-old girl was killed by her cousins in Faryab.

A man killed his 20-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter and injured his sister-in-law in Parwan and unidentified gunmen shot dead a man in the province.

Security officials said intelligence operatives rescued a person from kidnappers and injured one abductor during a clash.

Note: These figures are based on reports reaching Pajhwok Afghan News. Some incidents may have gone unreported or officials provided incorrect figures.

In the previous week, six people were killed and four others were injured in different incidents across the country.

Before the regime change in August 2021, hundreds of civilians, insurgents and security forces would get killed and wounded in violent incidents.

Eid-ul-Adha& messages of current and former leaders of Afghanistan

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) supreme leader Maulvi Haibatullah Akhunzada said in his EidulAdha message that the Islamic Emirate did not interfere in the affairs of other countries and did not allow others to interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.

He added that the Islamic Emirate wanted good and constructive political and economic relations with the entire world, especially with Islamic countries.

Deputy prime minister for economic affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said in his Eid message that foreigners wanted to show Afghanistan economically unstable and persuade Afghans to leave their country.

The UN deputy special representative for Afghanistan Markus Potzel said that the issue of human rights in Afghanistan was not about interference in the country’s domestic affairs.

China has asked the Afghan interim government to take more solid steps in the direction that serves the interests of the Afghan people and meets the expectations of the international community.

Former President Ashraf Ghani in his Eid message said the Afghan nation reserved the right to ask the warlords why they wasted golden opportunities and filled their pockets and bank accounts.

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, head of the Reconciliation Council of the previous government of Afghanistan, has asked the world to continue to help the people of Afghanistan considering their economic problems and difficult situation.

World reports on Afghanistan

In its annual report, the Australian Institute of Economics and Peace has mentioned Afghanistan as the most insecure country in the world for the eighth time among 163 countries.

The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the recent “Global Peace Index 2022” of the Institution for Economic and Peace (IEP) findings regarding Afghanistan are “unjust”.

According to the survey of Gallup, Afghanistan emerges as the least positive country in world.

In a newly released report, the US State Department criticized ‘insufficient’ preparation for worse-case scenarios as US forces left Afghanistan.

Friday’s report said the decision by US president Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan had “serious consequences” for the viability of the Ashraf Ghani-led government.

Calls for opening of girls’ schools

Last week, foreign ministers of Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, France, Liechtenstein and Mongolia held a landmark meeting in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia and asked the caretaker government of Afghanistan to swiftly reverse restrictions imposed on women and girls in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, a number of women and girls in Ghazni and Kabul urged the Islamic Emirate to give women their rights to education and work.

On the other hand, some religious clerics in Parwan province asked the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade.

The Amnesty International (AI) has again demanded immediate release of education activist Matiullah Wesa.

At the same time, the acting minister of vice and virtue has told all provincial officials to pay attention to the rights of women and allow no one to infringe on their rights.

MoD

The Afghanistan Ministry of Defense once again asked Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to return Afghan aircrafts.

According to reports, about 60 aircrafts of Afghanistan were taken to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan after the political change in August 2021.

Humanitarian aid

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan says Iceland has contributed 40 million Icelandic Krona ($294,000) in humanitarian aid.

Meanwhile, World Food Program (WFP) chief in Afghanistan has warned that food assistance to Afghans will shrink to nothing by the end of October under the current funding projections.

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