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Despite the Taliban's pledge to eradicate opium, the poppy trade still flourishes in Afghanistan

The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at the same time opium production has tended to increase in areas they have controlled, where local leaders reportedly raise money to fund their operations by…

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Nottingham Imam denies he spread extremism while funded by Prevent

It is anticipated that Dr Musharraf Hussain will be on a list of names to be published in the long-awaited review of the Prevent programme, carried out by William Shawcross

Nottingham Post

For Afghan evacuees, a looming unemployment crisis

PHILADELPHIA — Cathryn Miller-Wilson has worked in immigration long enough to know when a crisis is walking toward her.

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Saudi diplomats leave Afghanistan, relocate to Pakistani capital -sources

Saudi diplomats have left Afghanistan for "training" and will return, the Taliban administration said on Monday, though three sources familiar with the matter said security concerns had contributed to their departure.

Reuters

What’s wrong with Twitter in 2023? Check out the latest catastrophes

Here’s the lowdown on all the strange things afoot at Elon Musk’s company so far in 2023.

Evening Standard

Appeal for release of French journalist jailed in Afghanistan

The media protection organisation Reporters Without Borders and 14 French news organisations have called for the immediate release of the franco-afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, detained by the Taliban in Kabul since 7 January.

Radio France Internationale

General Pervez Musharraf obituary

Former president of Pakistan who supported the US in its war on terror and was hailed as George Bush’s ‘best buddy’

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Qatar sends envoy to Afghan capital to meet with Taliban

An envoy for Qatar's foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met with the Taliban administration's acting foreign minister, according to an Afghan foreign ministry statement.

Reuters

Democrats’ Ilhan Omar defence weakened by party’s own attacks over Israel

Party’s criticism of Omar’s Israel position has greased the path for Republicans to oust her from the foreign affairs committee

The Guardian - US

EU migration impasse leaves many refugees out in the cold

Many refugees and asylum-seekers are literally left out in the cold for months as the European Union fails to get its migration system working properly

The Independent UK

Ex-Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf, who aided U.S. war in Afghanistan, has died

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died. He was 79.

WEKU

Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan's last military ruler

Islamabad (AFP) - Pervez Musharraf, the last military ruler of Pakistan, who served as a key ally to the US during its "war on terror" died in exile in Dubai on Sunday at the age of 79.

AFP

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies

An offical says Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan, has died

The Independent UK

Pakistan's Musharraf, military ruler who allied with the U.S. and promoted moderate Islam

Pervez Musharraf, the four-star general who ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999, oversaw rapid economic growth and attempted to usher in socially liberal values in the conservative Muslim country.

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Pakistan to appeal to Taliban leader over police mosque bombing

Islamabad (AFP) - Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing killed scores of police in a mosque, officials said Saturday.

Reuters

U.N. rights rapporteur urges release of detained Afghan education activist

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights called on Afghanistan's Taliban administration on Friday to release a university lecturer and education activist detained by security forces in the capital Kabul.

The Guardian - UK

Fall of Kabul whistleblower sues UK government after sacking

Exclusive: Civil servant who gave anonymous interview to BBC about Afghan withdrawal says service ‘dangerously politicised’

The Guardian - UK

Afghan refugees protest against plans to move them from London to Yorkshire

Some of the refugees worked alongside British army before Taliban took power in 2021

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The Independent UK

Dutch ministry won't appeal unlawful Afghan airstrike ruling

The Dutch government says it will not appeal a court ruling that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, killing some 20 civilians, in a civil case

Al Jazeera

Taliban detains professor who protested ban on women’s education

The Taliban confirms the detention of Ismail Mashal, who tore up his degrees to protest against women’s education ban.

The Conversation

Afghanistan: single women and widows are struggling to find their next meal under Taliban restrictions

Jamila*, a widow living in Herat, lost her husband in a suicide attack about eight years ago. She has an 18-year-old daughter who is blind and a 20-year-old son who lost both legs in a mine blast.

The Independent UK

Rupert Everett claims he knows identity of woman Harry lost his virginity to

In his new memoir, Harry wrote that the event took place in a field behind a ‘busy pub’

The Independent UK

Pakistani troops kill 2 militants in raid near Afghan border

Pakistan's military says security forces have killed two insurgents during a raid of a militant hideout in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near Afghanistan

Reuters

Some UN Afghan aid delivered by men only, donors voice alarm

Under pressure from Afghanistan's Taliban administration, the United Nations is delivering some food aid using men only, prompting warnings from donors and humanitarian groups that it could be seen as giving in to an internationally condemned ban on most female aid workers.

WEKU

House Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee

Republicans have cited the Minnesota Democrat's past controversial comments about Israel. Omar, who herself has faced anti-Muslim bigotry since taking office, called the move "purely partisan."

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