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Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
30-21 Dec 2021
21-13 Dec 2021
19-13 Dec 2021
= below
11-3 Dec 2021
Al Jazeera
19 Dec 2021
<<OIC nations pledge fund to prevent Afghanistan economic
collapse Organisation of Islamic Cooperation pledges to set up
humanitarian trust fund for Afghanistan as millions face hunger and
poverty.
The crisis is causing alarm with billions of dollars in aid and
assets frozen by the international community after the Taliban takeover
of the country in August this year. <Unless action is taken immediately,
Afghanistan is heading for chaos,> Prime Minister Imran Khan, of
Pakistan – which is holding the summit, told a meeting of foreign
ministers from the OIC.
<Any government when it can’t pay its salaries for its public
servants, hospitals, doctors, nurses, any government is going to
collapse but chaos suits no one, it certainly does not suit the United
States.>
An OIC resolution released after the meeting said the Islamic
Development Bank would lead the effort to free up assistance by the
first quarter of 2022. It also urged Afghanistan’s rulers to abide by
<obligations under international human rights covenants, especially with
regards to the rights of women, children, youth, elderly and people with
special needs>. The OIC meeting did not give the new Taliban government
any formal international recognition and Afghan Foreign Minister Amir
Khan Muttaqi was excluded from the official photograph taken during the
event.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/19/oic-nations-pledge-fund-to-prevent-afghanistan-economic-collapse
Note by Gino d'Artali about the below quoted : I only recently
found out about the excistence of PAHJWOK AFGHAN NEWS. Let's find out if
they write true or false.
Note by Gino d'Artali:
My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono
notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.>
Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news
because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
PAHJWOK AFGHAN NEWS
June 13, 2021
<<Malala Yousafzai’s Ideology and Activism.
Malala Yousafzai’s ideology is activism, social justice for girls
and women who have been suffering in many ways such as, lack of human
rights, education rights, lack of employment opportunities for women,
and countless other barriers for girls and women’s freedom in that that
is a continuous trend in the region for centuries.
Ideologies are usually shaping how we think, how we believe and
accept or reject cultural, religious, social, and political ideas,
policies and actions. In most societies, these ideologies are divided by
lift and right, liberal or conservative. Stone (1986, p. 20) explains
that ideas <personality and ideology> are interconnected to one another
which is the driving force of societies. Stone, (1986) emphasizes that
according to “a survey of the psychological literature on behavioral
differences was made, with special attention to anomalous differences
between liberals and conservatives (differences that seem inexplicable
on the basis of ideological content alone)”. However, what is ideology?
Or how ideologies’ influence can be analyzed to better understand
ideologies? Ideology is related to power and everyone justify their
thought, actions, and standpoints “in ideological terms” (POLI 307, n.d).
The ideology of Malala Yousafzai roots in her struggle for girls and
women’s rights. Yousafzai’s ideology is activism, social justice for
girls and women who have been suffering in many ways such as, lack of
human rights, education rights, lack of employment opportunities for
women, and countless other barriers for girls and women’s freedom in
that that is a continuous trend in the region for centuries. The
objectives of Yousafzai’s ideology are mainly social, economic, and
political equality for girls and women. Additionally, Yousafzai’s
ideological streams in her gender, heritage, poverty, lack of equal
rights, and equal opportunities both as a female and as a Pashtun tribe
in Pakistan.>>
Read more here:
https://pajhwok.com/opinion/malala-yousafzais-ideology-and-activism/
and 2 articles I wrote and published about Malala Yousafhai way
in Sept-Oct 2019:
www.cryfreedom.net/malala.htm and
www.cryfreedom.net/malala2.htm
PAHJWOK AFGHAN NEWS
Reflecting the truth
19 Dec 2021
<<Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan worries India.
KABUL (Pajhwok): India on Sunday voiced its deep concern at the
dire humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. Foreign Minister S
Jaishankar also underlined the creation of a truly inclusive government
in Afghanistan. He cited deep-rooted and civilisational bonds that India
and Central Asian nations shared with the war-torn country.
An Indian news channel quoted the external affairs minister as
calling on the new Afghan rulers to preserve the rights of minorities.
According to News-X, Jaishankar was hosting the third meeting of
the India-Central Asia Dialogue in New Delhi. Foreign ministers of
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are
attending the dialogue.
In his opening remarks, Jaishankar said India and Central Asian
countries had similar concerns and objectives in Afghanistan.
He urged the creation of a truly inclusive government, fight
against terrorism and drug trafficking in Afghanistan. The minister
stressed the need for ensuring unhindered humanitarian aid to the
Afghans and preserving the rights of women, children and minorities.
<We must find ways of helping the people of Afghanistan,> said
Jaishankar, who supported greater cooperation between India and Central
Asian countries.>>
PAN Monitor/mud
https://pajhwok.com/2021/12/19/humanitarian-crisis-in-afghanistan-worries-india/
The Guardian
19 Dec 2021
<<Opinion
Afghanistan
Selfies with the Taliban? Come on, let’s never forget their
repression of women
Emma Graham-Harrison.
Girls are barred from school, women can’t work. But too much
reporting and diplomacy fails to note their absence.
n the days after the Taliban took Kabul, more than one
correspondent shared clips from its streets, marvelling at how fast the
city had returned to <surprisingly normal>, with shoppers back out and a
sudden sense of quiet in a place that had been constantly braced for the
next suicide bombing. The correspondents were men, who apparently didn’t
register one stark difference; it was also largely men in their videos.
Most of the city’s women had vanished into their homes, terrified of
what Taliban rule would mean for them. It could have been a momentary
slip of attention, at a time of intense pressure. But in the weeks that
followed, this kind of blindness to the particular tragedy unfolding for
Afghan women would play out again and again, first in male journalists’
coverage of the Taliban’s victory, and then in international
organisations’ response to Afghanistan’s crisis.
Afghanistan was already the world’s worst country to live in as a
woman before the Taliban took control. But with the group curtailing
employment, and even trying to banish women’s faces from TV screens, it
plunged to new depths, restrictions rarely seen in recent decades beyond
the pages of dystopian novels, the short-lived borders of the IS
caliphate, or the last time the Taliban controlled Afghanistan. This
past week marked 90 days since the Taliban effectively barred girls from
higher education, with no date for a return to high school.
Yet, particularly in the first weeks of Taliban control, that
horror, and the unique shadow descending on women’s lives, seemed not to
register fully with many male journalists in Afghanistan, or their
editors back home in English-speaking countries, from the UK to the US,
Australia to Canada (I haven’t followed other languages). It took one of
the US’s leading papers four days to cover the Taliban announcement of a
defacto ban on secondary school education for girls. On the 20th
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, one prominent male
correspondent in Kabul wondered on Twitter if <perhaps we can start
today... to heal and move forward>. Afghan women were simply wondering
if they would study or work again or even leave their house safely.
The specific restraints on women’s lives and public roles do not
seem to be a priority either for many of the diplomats, UN officials and
aid agencies that have begun flying into Kabul again, too often as part
of all-male delegations. The UK sent two British men to discuss <the
rights of women and girls> with two Taliban men, apparently oblivious or
unconcerned about the message that decision sent Afghanistan’s new
rulers, as they energetically exclude women from government and public
spaces.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/19/amid-male-diplomacy-and-selfies-with-talibs-afghan-womens-lives-are-in-peril
PAHJWOK AFGHAN NEWS
Reflecting the truth
18 Dec 2021
<<Women’s rights must be the litmus test for our collective
engagement with the Taliban.>>
Read more here:
https://pajhwok.com/opinion/womens-rights-must-be-the-litmus-test-for-our-collective-engagement-with-the-taliban/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: This online newspaper is new to me and
I think it's worth your worthwhile to read the above because the article
stands up for the Afghani women. Just follow the link.
I in any case will follow this newspaper and if worthwhile inform
you more.
Al Jazeera
17 Dec 2021
<<Afghanistan’s tumbling currency compounds economic crisis
The international community froze billions of dollars worth of
Afghan assets abroad and stopped all international funding to the
country after the Taliban takeover.
The value of Afghanistan’s currency is tumbling, exacerbating an
already severe economic crisis and deepening poverty in a country where
more than half the population already does not have enough to eat. The
afghani lost more than 11 percent of its value against the United States
dollar in the space of a day earlier this week, before recouping
somewhat. But the market remains volatile, and the devaluation is
already affecting Afghans.
Afghanistan’s economy was already troubled when the international
community froze billions of dollars worth of Afghanistan’s assets abroad
and stopped all international funding to the country after the Taliban
seized power in mid-August amid a chaotic US and NATO troop withdrawal.
The consequences have been dire for a country heavily dependent on
foreign aid.
Afghanistan was also slated to access about $450m on August 23
from the International Monetary Fund, but the IMF blocked the release
because of a “lack of clarity” about the country’s new rulers. Since
then, international envoys have warned of a looming economic meltdown
and humanitarian catastrophe.
<People have no money and the prices have gone up,> said Sayed
Umid, a 28-year-old shopkeeper selling basic food items such as rice,
beans and pulses in a main shopping street in the western Afghan city of
Herat.
<Since this morning I haven’t had a single customer,> he said.
With rent to pay on his shop and home expenses, he worries he can no
longer make ends meet.
Khan Afzal Hadawal, former acting governor of Afghanistan’s
central bank, said the sanctions on the Taliban and the freezing of
Afghanistan’s reserve funds <have put the country’s aid-dependent
economy on the verge of full economic collapse, leading to historic
depreciation of currency>.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/17/afghanistans-tumbling-currency-adds-to-severe-economic-woes
Opinion by Gino d'Artali:
Please do not forget that especially women forbidden to work by
the taliban are affected severely but also mothers who often are so
desperate they're willing to sell their daughters to marry.
Al Jazeera
16 Dec 2021
<<Afghanistan healthcare ‘on brink of collapse’ amid Omicron
scare
Doctors are bracing for more infections that they fear are
inevitable with the new coronavirus variant.
The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients
has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff,
unpaid for months, still show up for work, but they are struggling to
make ends meet at home. This is the plight at the Afghan-Japan
Communicable Disease Hospital, the only COVID-19 facility for the more
than four million people who live in the capital, Kabul. While the
coronavirus situation in Afghanistan appears to have improved from a few
months ago when cases reached their peak, it is now the hospital itself
that needs life support.
Its predicament is a symptom of the crisis in Afghanistan’s
healthcare system, which is <on the brink of collapse> and able to
function only with a lifeline from aid organisations. <We face many
problems here,> said Dr Ahmad Fatah Habibyar, the hospital’s
administration logistics manager, citing three months of unpaid
salaries, shortages of equipment and drugs, and a lack of food.
Some of the staff are in such financial difficulties that they
are selling their household furniture to make ends meet, he said.
<Oxygen is a big issue for us because we can’t run the
generators,> he said, noting the hospital’s production plant has not
worked for months <because we can’t afford the diesel>.
Instead, oxygen cylinders for COVID-19 patients are bought from a
local supplier. And doctors are bracing for more infections that they
fear are inevitable with the Omicron coronavirus variant.
‘We’re not ready for Omicron’
Without outside help, <we are not ready for Omicron. A disaster
will be here,> said Dr Shereen Agha, the 38-year-old head of the
hospital’s intensive care unit. The hospital was short even of basic
supplies like examination gloves, he said, and its two ambulances sit
idle for lack of fuel.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/16/afghanistan-healthcare-omicron-covid-children-hospital
The Guardian
Women report Afghanistan is supported by
Humanity United
By Anonymous
15 Dec 2021
<<Women report Afghanistan
‘The Taliban say they’ll kill me if they find me’: a female
reporter still on the run speaks out.
I am an Afghan female journalist and I have been on the run for
more than four months. I have lived in numerous safe houses and the
homes of people who’ve offered me refuge. I am constantly moving to
avoid being caught, from province to province, city to city.
The Taliban insurgents have been threatening to kill me and my
colleagues for two years, for our reports exposing their crimes in our
province. But when they seized control of our provincial capital, they
started to hunt for those who had spoken out against them. I decided to
escape, for my own and my family’s safety.
I left my childhood home and my family with no idea when I would
return or what fate awaited me. But, on 15 August, after President
Ashraf Ghani fled the country, Taliban fighters marched into Kabul and
took control of the capital, leaving many of us vulnerable to the whims
of this vengeful, violent group.
The first time I saw my mother in three months was in a market, a
crowded public space. We were both wearing our long blue burqa; not just
because it is now a requirement for women in my province, but also to
avoid being recognised and caught by the Taliban, who now control my
country.
In early August, she had helped me pack so I could escape the
advancing Taliban forces that had captured my home province. She gave me
the courage to leave so I wouldn’t get caught by the fighters who have
been known to be unforgiving towards those, like me, who are critical of
them.
When I first saw her in the market, I wanted to pull away our
chaderis and just give her a hug. She nudged me to be quiet, held my
hand and led me into a nearby store. She knew it would have been too
risky for me to be recognised. Inside the shop, which belonged to a
relative, she held me tight and kissed my face. I held her for such a
long time; we talked and cried. It felt so good. It felt as if I had
found something very precious after a very long time.
I am exhausted. I am tired of running and hiding. I am tired of
begging friends and relatives to hide me in their homes. For four
months, I have been thrown around the country like a football. I am
tired of my life.
My mental state is very bad. I can’t sleep at night. I get
nightmares when I close my eyes. I don’t find value in my own life. I
can’t work to support myself. I used to be the breadwinner of my family,
and now they are starving, while I am dependent on other people for
survival. I also feel bad for the people who open their homes for me.
Many of them are out of work and can barely feed their families. How can
I expect them to feed me?>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/15/the-taliban-say-theyll-kill-me-if-they-find-me-a-female-reporter-still-on-the-run-speaks-out
Note by Gino d'Artali i.e. quote from The Guardian:
<<Q&A
<<What is the Women report Afghanistan series?
With Afghanistan under Taliban control, women’s voices have been
silenced. For this special series, the Guardian’s Rights and freedom
project has partnered with Rukhshana Media, a collective of female
journalists across Afghanistan, to bring their reporting on the
situation for girls and women across the country to a global audience.
Afghan journalists, especially women, face a dire situation. The
free press has been obliterated by the Taliban, and female journalists
have been forced to flee or have lost their jobs. Many of those still in
the country are in hiding. Those who have escaped are now refugees
facing an uncertain future.
All of the reporting in this series will be carried out by Afghan
women, with support from the editors on the Rights and freedom project.
These are the stories that Afghan women want to tell about what
is happening to their country at this critical moment.>>
Closing my note: I'll keep followingg the Q&A and will keep you
informed.
Al Jazeera
By Aigerim Turgunbaeva and Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska
15 Dec 2021
<<Handful of Afghans who fled to Kyrgyzstan face uncertain
futures
With the Central Asian nation facing its own economic and
political challenges, asylum seekers hope they are able to eventually
move on.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – Each time Fatima Framarz boarded a plane
from Kabul to Bishkek, she was convinced that she would return to the
Afghan capital.
The 31-year-old knew that the education she gained from the
Kyrgyzstan-based OSCE Academy will be put to good use in her native,
war-torn country.
With a degree in International Relations, she trained as a
journalist and soon after joined the prestigious Etilaat Roz newspaper.
In July, she boarded a plane from Kabul to the Kyrgyz capital
again. Little did she know, that was to be her last flight out of
Afghanistan.
Following the summer school at the academy, Framarz’s return
flight was scheduled for August 15.
<That day, Kabul was handed over to the Taliban and the former
Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country. All flights were
cancelled,> Framarz said. <With the support of one of my Kyrgyz
professors, I went to the UNHCR office in Bishkek to apply for a refugee
status.>
Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation of 6.5 million people, is not
normally a destination Afghan refugees head to. The two countries do not
share a border and there are few commercial links between them.
But given Kyrgyzstan’s proximity to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,
Afghanistan’s neighbours, and the presence of high-quality English
language higher education institutes, some Afghans apply for refugee
status there. According to official data by the State Migration Service,
as of August 2021, Kyrgyzstan hosted 73 Afghan refugees. It is unclear
how many more arrived or applied for asylum following the fall of Kabul.
But over the years, Afghan wars have seen several refugees flee to
Kyrgyzstan. In 2001, at the onset of US invasion, the country hosted
around 1,500 Afghans seeking safety. According to official data, in
2012, around 2,000 Afghans with different types of visas lived in
Kyrgyzstan, 800 of whom were registered with the UNHCR. In recent years,
however, Kyrgyzstan has had its own political upheavals.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/15/handful-of-afghans-who-fled-to-kyrgyzstan-face-uncertain-futures
The Guardian
13 Dec 2021
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Peter Beaumont
<<Global development
Afghan health system ‘close to collapse due to sanctions on
Taliban’
Health experts issue dire warning as staff go unpaid and medical
facilities lack basic items to treat patients.
Large parts of Afghanistan’s health system are on the brink of
collapse because of western sanctions against the Taliban, international
experts have warned, as the country faces outbreaks of disease and an
escalating malnutrition crisis. With the country experiencing a
deepening humanitarian crisis since the Taliban’s seizure of power in
August amid mounting levels of famine and economic collapse, many
medical staff have not been paid for months and health facilities lack
even the most basic items to treat patients.
Dr Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian health
at Johns Hopkins University, said that on a recent five-week trip to the
country he had seen public hospitals – which cater for the most
vulnerable – lacking fuel, drugs, hygiene products and even basic items
such as colostomy bags. He said the Covid-19 responsehad almost ground
to a halt and called for a more nuanced response to western sanctions in
order to avert a deeper public health disaster.
<It’s really bad and it is going to get a lot worse,> Spiegel, a
former chief of public health at the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees among other high-profile humanitarian assignments, told the
Guardian.
<There are six simultaneous disease outbreaks: cholera, a massive
measles outbreak, polio, malaria and dengue fever, and that is in
addition to the coronavirus pandemic.>
Some parts of the primary healthcare system were being funded
through a two-decades-old scheme, Spiegel said, but large parts remained
largely unsupported, even as health officials, international
organisations and NGOs have been required to restart programmes on hold
after the Taliban regained control of the country in August.
<I’ve been everywhere during my career. What is shocking is that
you don’t normally have an abrupt halt to everything. The UN
organisations and NGOs supporting healthcare in Afghanistan are not just
dealing with acute emergencies, they’re having to respond to getting the
basics running.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/13/afghan-health-system-close-to-collapse-due-to-sanctions-on-taliban
The Guardian
13 Dec 2021
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Peter Beaumont
<<Global development
Afghan health system ‘close to collapse due to sanctions on
Taliban’
Health experts issue dire warning as staff go unpaid and medical
facilities lack basic items to treat patients.
Large parts of Afghanistan’s health system are on the brink of
collapse because of western sanctions against the Taliban, international
experts have warned, as the country faces outbreaks of disease and an
escalating malnutrition crisis. With the country experiencing a
deepening humanitarian crisis since the Taliban’s seizure of power in
August amid mounting levels of famine and economic collapse, many
medical staff have not been paid for months and health facilities lack
even the most basic items to treat patients.
Dr Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian health
at Johns Hopkins University, said that on a recent five-week trip to the
country he had seen public hospitals – which cater for the most
vulnerable – lacking fuel, drugs, hygiene products and even basic items
such as colostomy bags. He said the Covid-19 responsehad almost ground
to a halt and called for a more nuanced response to western sanctions in
order to avert a deeper public health disaster.
<It’s really bad and it is going to get a lot worse,> Spiegel, a
former chief of public health at the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees among other high-profile humanitarian assignments, told the
Guardian.
<There are six simultaneous disease outbreaks: cholera, a massive
measles outbreak, polio, malaria and dengue fever, and that is in
addition to the coronavirus pandemic.>
Some parts of the primary healthcare system were being funded
through a two-decades-old scheme, Spiegel said, but large parts remained
largely unsupported, even as health officials, international
organisations and NGOs have been required to restart programmes on hold
after the Taliban regained control of the country in August.
<I’ve been everywhere during my career. What is shocking is that
you don’t normally have an abrupt halt to everything. The UN
organisations and NGOs supporting healthcare in Afghanistan are not just
dealing with acute emergencies, they’re having to respond to getting the
basics running.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/13/afghan-health-system-close-to-collapse-due-to-sanctions-on-taliban
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