Afghanistan

BY GLENN SACKS Photo by Staff Sgt. Kylee Gardner – Public Domain Two years ago this week Americans were shocked and dismayed at the incredibly rapid collapse of the US-backed government in Afghanistan. This despite the fact that over a 20-year period the US had suffered upwards of 40,000 casualties and spent $2.3 trillion dollars to support the government and to supply the Afghan National Security Forces with some of the best weapons and training available anywhere in the world. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that in August 2021, “the vast majority of the Afghan units put their weapons down and surrendered without a fight. Kabul was taken with a couple hundred guys on motorcycles and not a shot fired…How is...

Edited By: Mukul Sharma Afghan women protest against inequality under Taliban government Photograph:( AFP ) STORY HIGHLIGHTS The move is the latest among a series of gender-oppressive measures in Afghanistan that country's Taliban rulers have imposed to curtail women's rights and freedoms in the country. Women in Afghanistan will be denied entry to amusement parks in the country, the Taliban government's "morality police" ordered on Wednesday. The ban adds to a series of gender-oppressive measures imposed by the Taliban-led government after it dethroned the democratically-elected Ashraf Ghani government in Kabul last August, followed by a chaotic exit of the last US forces stationed there in operative capacity since the aftermath of September 11, 2001 attacks. ...

CPIML Liberation is deeply grieved by the news of death and destruction caused by a powerful earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning. According to reports, more than 1000 people have been killed in the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck near the city of Khost. The impact of the disaster has been exacerbated by the severe economic crisis the country had been facing since the withdrawal US led occupation forces. Economic sanctions on the new Taliban regime and freezing of Afghan central bank assets, including foreign reserves in the US has led to extreme situations of poverty, hunger and severe shortage of medicines and life-saving medical supplies. We stand with people of Afghanistan in this time of crisis and economic sanctions placed on the country must be withdraw...