Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

[Tonil]

 

[Tonil]

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[Gary]

This is the nth time a <insert country name> had been promising support to the IEA.


So what happened to int'l recognition? I thought countries are lining up to recognize the IEA since the inauguration.

IEA getting duped ?

 

[Saithan]

Drought, hunger and poverty force Afghans to sell their daughters​

BY FRENCH PRESS AGENCY - AFP​

QALA-I-NAW, AFGHANISTAN ASIA PACIFIC
OCT 26, 2021 10:57 AM GMT+3

A little girl betrothed to a 23-year-old man to whose family they were indebted, sitting inside a tent at the Shamal Darya Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Qala-i-Naw, Badghis Province, Afghanistan, Oct. 14, 2021. (AFP Photo)


Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan.

Oblivious to the deal, 6-year-old Farishteh and 18-month-old Shokriya sit by her side in a mud-brick and tarpaulin shelter for displaced people.

"My husband said if we don't give away our daughters, we will all die because we don't have anything to eat," Fahima said of the choice now facing thousands of Afghan families. "I feel bad giving away my daughters for money."

The oldest commanded a bride price of $3,350 and the toddler $2,800 – to be paid in installments over several years until the time comes to join their new families, their future husbands still minors themselves.

Child marriage has been practiced in Afghanistan for centuries, but war and climate change-related poverty have driven many families to resort to striking deals earlier and earlier in girls' lives.

Boys' parents can drive a harder bargain and secure younger girls, spacing out the repayments.

The World Food Program (WFP) warned Monday that more than half the population of Afghanistan, around 22.8 million people, will face acute food insecurity from November.

In Qala-i-Naw, capital of the western province of Badghis – one of the regions worst affected by the drought – there is shame and grief.

Village and displaced people's camp leaders say the numbers of young girls getting betrothed started to rise during a 2018 famine and surged this year when the rains failed once more.

Among farmers driven from their homes, the journalists from Agence France-Presse (AFP) quickly found more than a dozen families who felt forced to sell their daughters into marriage.

Grocery debt​

Fahima's 25-year-old neighbor in the camp, Sabehreh, ran up a bill at a grocer's shop to feed her family. The business owner warned that they would be jailed if they could not repay him.

To cover the debt, the family agreed that their 3-year-old daughter, Zakereh, would be betrothed to the grocer's 4-year-old son, Zabiuallah.

The infants are ignorant of their future fate, the shopkeeper having elected to wait until the pair are older before taking charge of the girl's upkeep.

"I'm not happy to have done that, but we had nothing to eat or drink," Sabehreh told AFP. "If this continues, we'll have to give up our three-month-old," she said, sitting by the iron cradle holding the sleeping infant, as the first chills of winter penetrated the bleak camp.

Another neighbor, Gul Bibi, confirmed that many families in the camp had resorted to child marriage.

Her own daughter Asho, aged eight or nine, is betrothed to a 23-year-old man to whose family Gul Bibi was indebted. The young man is away in nearby Iran, and she dreads the day of his return.

"We know it's not right, but we don't have any choice," commented Hayatullah, a passerby who overheard the mother's sad tale.

'Never seen them since'​

In another Qala-i-Naw camp, Mohammad Assan wiped back his tears as he showed AFP photos of his girls, Siana, 9, and Edi Gul, 6, now living far away with their young grooms.

"We've never seen them since," he said. "We didn't want to do that, but we had to feed our other children."

Like many others, Assan and his family sought shelter in the temporary camp during the fierce fighting in recent years as the now victorious Taliban clawed back control of the country from the United States-backed government.

"My daughters are surely better off over there, with food to eat," he reasoned, trying to console himself as he showed AFP the crusts of bread his neighbors spared for him.

Assan's wife is sick and he has medical bills to pay, so he has already begun looking for a suitor for his remaining 4-year-old daughter.

"Some days I go crazy," his wife Dad Gul said, "I leave the tent and I don't really know where I'm going."

The mothers' grief is long and open-ended: the hard decision to bargain away a child, the months or years waiting for her departure, then the pain of separation.

Rabia, a 43-year-old widow, has done everything to push back the fateful day.

Her daughter, Habibeh, has turned 12 and should have gone to join her future spouse's family a month ago, but she begged them for another year together.

"I want to stay with my mother," whispered the skinny child.

Rabia would refund the $550 she received for Habibeh's hand if she could afford to feed the rest of her family.

'Save my sons'​

Her 11-year-old boy earns 50 cents a day working for a baker, her 9-year-old picks up trash for 30. The children are black with filth, living in a ragged tent. It will be a hard winter.

"As a mother, my heart is broken, but I have to save my sons," she explained.

Camp elder Abdul Rahim Akbar does what he can to save his neighbors from having to make the awful choice, distributing a small ration of bread to the poorest families.

He has seen many fathers sell their daughters, including his own brother. He has even been to see the area's new Taliban authorities to seek their assistance.

The Taliban's interim governor for Badghis province, Maulvi Abdul Sattar, told AFP, "These child marriages are due to economic problems."
Even in camps outside drought-hit Badghis, child marriage is growing.

Outside Herat, the country's third-biggest city, fathers have to harden their hearts.

"I sold my 10-year-old girl. I never would have done it if I had the choice," said landless farmer Allahudin, admitting that if he could find a taker he'd also sell his 5-year-old.

But behind the blunt talk, there is grief and shame at their failure to provide for their families and keep them together.

"I know it's not good," said Baz Mohammad, "But I thought we were all going to die."

Drought, hunger and poverty force Afghans to sell their daughters

Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan.Oblivious...

www.dailysabah.com

 

[guest_07]

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to Muslims.
Good day to Others.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453018793857335311

 

[Gary]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453112747915235328

 

[Gary]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1452507896537825280

 

[Gary]

Typical day in Jalalabad.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453374902644396035

 

[guest_07]

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to Muslims.
Good day to Others.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453934306850578439

 

[Gary]

hey @Tonil is that you ??

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1453973819375243267

 

[Gary]

Drought, hunger and poverty force Afghans to sell their daughters​

BY FRENCH PRESS AGENCY - AFP​

QALA-I-NAW, AFGHANISTAN ASIA PACIFIC
OCT 26, 2021 10:57 AM GMT+3

A little girl betrothed to a 23-year-old man to whose family they were indebted, sitting inside a tent at the Shamal Darya Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Qala-i-Naw, Badghis Province, Afghanistan, Oct. 14, 2021. (AFP Photo)


Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan.

Oblivious to the deal, 6-year-old Farishteh and 18-month-old Shokriya sit by her side in a mud-brick and tarpaulin shelter for displaced people.

"My husband said if we don't give away our daughters, we will all die because we don't have anything to eat," Fahima said of the choice now facing thousands of Afghan families. "I feel bad giving away my daughters for money."

The oldest commanded a bride price of $3,350 and the toddler $2,800 – to be paid in installments over several years until the time comes to join their new families, their future husbands still minors themselves.

Child marriage has been practiced in Afghanistan for centuries, but war and climate change-related poverty have driven many families to resort to striking deals earlier and earlier in girls' lives.

Boys' parents can drive a harder bargain and secure younger girls, spacing out the repayments.

The World Food Program (WFP) warned Monday that more than half the population of Afghanistan, around 22.8 million people, will face acute food insecurity from November.

In Qala-i-Naw, capital of the western province of Badghis – one of the regions worst affected by the drought – there is shame and grief.

Village and displaced people's camp leaders say the numbers of young girls getting betrothed started to rise during a 2018 famine and surged this year when the rains failed once more.

Among farmers driven from their homes, the journalists from Agence France-Presse (AFP) quickly found more than a dozen families who felt forced to sell their daughters into marriage.

Grocery debt​

Fahima's 25-year-old neighbor in the camp, Sabehreh, ran up a bill at a grocer's shop to feed her family. The business owner warned that they would be jailed if they could not repay him.

To cover the debt, the family agreed that their 3-year-old daughter, Zakereh, would be betrothed to the grocer's 4-year-old son, Zabiuallah.

The infants are ignorant of their future fate, the shopkeeper having elected to wait until the pair are older before taking charge of the girl's upkeep.

"I'm not happy to have done that, but we had nothing to eat or drink," Sabehreh told AFP. "If this continues, we'll have to give up our three-month-old," she said, sitting by the iron cradle holding the sleeping infant, as the first chills of winter penetrated the bleak camp.

Another neighbor, Gul Bibi, confirmed that many families in the camp had resorted to child marriage.

Her own daughter Asho, aged eight or nine, is betrothed to a 23-year-old man to whose family Gul Bibi was indebted. The young man is away in nearby Iran, and she dreads the day of his return.

"We know it's not right, but we don't have any choice," commented Hayatullah, a passerby who overheard the mother's sad tale.

'Never seen them since'​

In another Qala-i-Naw camp, Mohammad Assan wiped back his tears as he showed AFP photos of his girls, Siana, 9, and Edi Gul, 6, now living far away with their young grooms.

"We've never seen them since," he said. "We didn't want to do that, but we had to feed our other children."

Like many others, Assan and his family sought shelter in the temporary camp during the fierce fighting in recent years as the now victorious Taliban clawed back control of the country from the United States-backed government.

"My daughters are surely better off over there, with food to eat," he reasoned, trying to console himself as he showed AFP the crusts of bread his neighbors spared for him.

Assan's wife is sick and he has medical bills to pay, so he has already begun looking for a suitor for his remaining 4-year-old daughter.

"Some days I go crazy," his wife Dad Gul said, "I leave the tent and I don't really know where I'm going."

The mothers' grief is long and open-ended: the hard decision to bargain away a child, the months or years waiting for her departure, then the pain of separation.

Rabia, a 43-year-old widow, has done everything to push back the fateful day.

Her daughter, Habibeh, has turned 12 and should have gone to join her future spouse's family a month ago, but she begged them for another year together.

"I want to stay with my mother," whispered the skinny child.

Rabia would refund the $550 she received for Habibeh's hand if she could afford to feed the rest of her family.

'Save my sons'​

Her 11-year-old boy earns 50 cents a day working for a baker, her 9-year-old picks up trash for 30. The children are black with filth, living in a ragged tent. It will be a hard winter.

"As a mother, my heart is broken, but I have to save my sons," she explained.

Camp elder Abdul Rahim Akbar does what he can to save his neighbors from having to make the awful choice, distributing a small ration of bread to the poorest families.

He has seen many fathers sell their daughters, including his own brother. He has even been to see the area's new Taliban authorities to seek their assistance.

The Taliban's interim governor for Badghis province, Maulvi Abdul Sattar, told AFP, "These child marriages are due to economic problems."
Even in camps outside drought-hit Badghis, child marriage is growing.

Outside Herat, the country's third-biggest city, fathers have to harden their hearts.

"I sold my 10-year-old girl. I never would have done it if I had the choice," said landless farmer Allahudin, admitting that if he could find a taker he'd also sell his 5-year-old.

But behind the blunt talk, there is grief and shame at their failure to provide for their families and keep them together.

"I know it's not good," said Baz Mohammad, "But I thought we were all going to die."

Drought, hunger and poverty force Afghans to sell their daughters

Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan.Oblivious...

www.dailysabah.com

Desperate parents sell their babies as food poverty spirals in Afghanistan

Nearly 23 million people are facing acute food insecurity.

metro.co.uk

There should be some sort of compromise in this in regard to those frozen Afghan money, this is dark and heart wrenching .

They should unfroze it with the UN supervising its use

 

[Jackdaws]

"If Unrecognition Continues, Could Become World's Problem": Taliban To US

The Taliban asked the US and other countries on Saturday to recognise their government in Afghanistan, saying that a failure to do so and the continued freezing of Afghan funds abroad would lead to problems not only for the country but for the world.

www.ndtv.com

Looks like the Taliban is back to begging


"If Unrecognition Continues, Could Become World's Problem": Taliban To US
The Taliban told the US and other countries that failure to recognise their government in Afghanistan and continued freezing of Afghan funds abroad would lead to problems not only for the country but for the world.

 

[Jackdaws]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1455342913404162048

 

[Nilgiri]

there is reason "correct-flags" virus-dude and ilk have gone silent...

...combined with more audacious middle fingers popping up from TTP, TLP and other "alphabet-miasma" groups in certain neighbour (i.e "unappreciated" consequences) @VCheng

Open to receiving Indian diplomats, humanitarian aid: Taliban - Times of India

South Asia News: Amid renewed efforts by the government in Kabul to seek international recognition, the Taliban have said they are open to receiving Indian diplomats a

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[VCheng]

there is reason "correct-flags" virus-dude and ilk have gone silent...

...combined with more audacious middle fingers popping up from TTP, TLP and other "alphabet-miasma" groups in certain neighbour (i.e "unappreciated" consequences) @VCheng

Open to receiving Indian diplomats, humanitarian aid: Taliban - Times of India

South Asia News: Amid renewed efforts by the government in Kabul to seek international recognition, the Taliban have said they are open to receiving Indian diplomats a

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Soon it won't be just the middle fingers. When raising snakes in your backyard .... .... etc. etc.

 

[Gary]

Seriously? Hospital

 

[Gary]

Now we know some Helo is still working.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1455640494302711810

 

[Bogeyman]

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EXCLUSIVE Baby handed to U.S. soldiers in chaos of Afghanistan airlift still missing​

It was a split second decision. Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and their five children on Aug. 19 in a chaotic crowd outside the gates of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when a U.S. soldier, from over the tall fence, asked if they needed help.

Fearing their two-month old baby Sohail would get crushed in the melee, they handed him to the soldier, thinking they would soon get to the entrance, which was only about 16 feet (5 meters) away.


But at that moment, Mirza Ali said, the Taliban - which had swiftly taken over the country as U.S. troops withdrew - began pushing back hundreds of hopeful evacuees. It took the rest of the family more than a half hour to get to the other side of the airport fence.

Once they were inside, Sohail was nowhere to be found.


Mirza Ali, who said he worked as a security guard at the U.S embassy for 10 years, began desperately asking every official he encountered about his baby's whereabouts. He said a military commander told him the airport was too dangerous for a baby and that he might have been taken to a special area for children. But when they got there it was empty.

"He walked with me all around the airport to search everywhere," Mirza Ali said in an interview through a translator. He said he never got the commander's name, as he didn't speak English and was relying on Afghan colleagues from the embassy to help communicate. Three days went by.


"I spoke to maybe more than 20 people," he said. "Every officer - military or civilian - I came across I was asking about my baby."

He said one of the civilian officials he spoke to told him Sohail might have been evacuated by himself. "They said 'we don't have resources to keep the baby here.'"

Mirza Ali, 35, Suraya, 32, and their other children, 17, 9, 6 and 3 years old, were put on an evacuation flight to Qatar and then to Germany and eventually landed in the United States. The family is now at Fort Bliss in Texas with other Afghan refugees waiting to be resettled somewhere in the United States. They have no relatives here.

Mirza Ali said he saw other families handing their babies over the Kabul airport fence to soldiers at the same time. One video clip of a small baby in a diaper being hoisted by her arm over razor wire went viral on social media. She was later reunited with her parents.

Ever since his baby went missing dates are a blur, Mirza Ali said. Every person he comes across - aid workers, U.S. officials - he tells them about Sohail. "Everyone promises they will do their best, but they are just promises," he said.

An Afghan refugee support group created a "Missing Baby" sign with Sohail's picture on it and are circulating it among their networks in the hopes that someone will recognize him.

A U.S. government official familiar with the situation said the case had been flagged for all the agencies involved, including the U.S. bases and overseas locations. The child was last seen being handed to a U.S. soldier during the chaos at the Kabul airport but "unfortunately no one can find the child," the official said.

A Department of Defense spokesperson and a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which is overseeing resettlement efforts, referred queries on the matter to the State Department, since the separation took place overseas.

A State Department spokesperson said the government is working with international partners and the international community "to explore every avenue to locate the child, which includes an international amber alert that was issued through the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children."

Suraya, who also spoke through a translator, said she cries most of the time and that her other children are distraught.

"All I am doing is thinking about my child," Suraya said. "Everyone that is calling me, my mother, my father, my sister, they all comfort me and say 'don't worry, God is kind, your son will be found.'"

EXCLUSIVE Baby handed to U.S. soldiers in chaos of Afghanistan airlift still missing

It was a split second decision. Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and their five children on Aug. 19 in a chaotic crowd outside the gates of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when a U.S. soldier, from over the tall fence, asked if they needed help.

www.reuters.com

Here is the true face of American soldiers

@Zafer @Kaptaan @Corona @guest_07

 

[Kaptaan]

Here is the true face of American soldiers

What a tragedy. I shudder to think what will happen to that baby. And imagine the pain the mother will now live in.

 

[Paro]

there is reason "correct-flags" virus-dude and ilk have gone silent...

...combined with more audacious middle fingers popping up from TTP, TLP and other "alphabet-miasma" groups in certain neighbour (i.e "unappreciated" consequences) @VCheng

Open to receiving Indian diplomats, humanitarian aid: Taliban - Times of India

South Asia News: Amid renewed efforts by the government in Kabul to seek international recognition, the Taliban have said they are open to receiving Indian diplomats a

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Soon it won't be just the middle fingers. When raising snakes in your backyard .... .... etc. etc.

Pak sits on India request to let trucks take its wheat to Afghanistan

While Islamabad has not yet said no to the proposal, officials in New Delhi are hoping for a quick response so that they can organise the movement of aid as soon as possible.

www.google.com

Guess who is in a little pickle

Then this.

India says Pakistan not attending NSA talks on Afghanistan ‘unfortunate but not surprising’

The talks on 10 November, on the security situation in Afghanistan, will be hosted by NSA Ajit Doval. Russia, Iran and 5 Central Asian countries have confirmed their participation.

www.google.com

A certain party knows attending the meeting they would be arm twisted to forfeit their position.