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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
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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.>
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Jinha - Womens News Agency - March 26, 2025
<<‘Girls in Afghanistan must return to school’
“Girls in Afghanistan must return to school,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a post on social media platform X as a new school year has begun in Afghanistan.
News Center- As a new school year has begun in Afghanistan, girls above the sixth grade have been deprived of their right to education since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. “As a new school year begins in Afghanistan, the doors remain shut to thousands of girls—for the third year in a row,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a post on social media platform X. “This violation of their right to education will haunt generations. Girls must return to school. Their fundamental rights must be restored—without delay.”
‘Almost 400,000 more girls have been deprived of their right to education’
In a statement on Friday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that almost 400,000 more girls have been deprived of their right to education in Afghanistan. “As a new school year begins in Afghanistan, it marks three years since the start of the ban on girls' secondary education,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on the third anniversary of the ban on secondary education for girls in Afghanistan. “This decision continues to harm the future of millions of Afghan girls. If this ban persists until 2030, over four million girls will have been deprived of their right to education beyond primary school.”>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/girls-in-afghanistan-must-return-to-school-36781?page=1

Zan Times - March 24, 2025 - By: Shukria
<<One house, 11 sisters, and countless sorrows and hopes
After the rest of my family had gone asleep, I studied for the university entrance exam (Kankor), under the dim light of a small solar lamp. One night, my father said, “This light will weaken your eyes. Turn on the room light.” I told him I didn’t want to disturb others. He replied, “They’re asleep, and no one’s eyes get weak from light while they sleep. But you are studying, and your eyes must not be damaged.”
That moment has stayed with me. My father has always been the biggest supporter of me and my sisters. He wants his daughters to study, to work, and to gain skills. My name is Shukria, and I am 21 years old. We live in one of the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan. I have 10 sisters, ranging in age from 5 to 26, and one brother, who is 6. My parents endured taunts from neighbours and relatives for having so many daughters. Even now, people say to my father, as if in sympathy, “If only you had a grown son.” But my father never discriminated against his daughters. On the contrary, he supported our desire to go to school and pursue higher education. Four of us have graduated from school: two completed higher education — one in midwifery and the other in law; and a sister and I had just completed two semesters at a public university when they were closed to girls. I was studying English literature, and she was studying chemistry. Three sisters were in eighth, tenth, and eleventh grades when the Taliban shut the schools to girls. Two younger sisters are still in primary school, while the youngest isn’t yet old enough for school. My father runs a small shop. He covers all our expenses without a single complaint and works day and night to support our education. After the closure of public and private schools, we enrolled my younger sisters in home-based schools. For the past two years, I have also been teaching English at girls’ learning centers and home-based schools. In addition, my sister and I enrolled in a health institute after the universities were shut to women. I chose dental prosthetics, and she enrolled in nursing. We had completed two semesters when the institutes were also closed to women. Sometimes, the Taliban’s morality enforcers would enter our classrooms to inspect how we wore our hijabs. They could never find fault in our attire, but they would still criticize us, even declaring that no girl was allowed to walk around the courtyard of the institute. We were willing to make any sacrifice to continue our education — even to the point of not going to the restroom. On December 3, 2024, the Taliban shut the doors of the health institutes to girls. That night, the weather was stormy in our city as thunder roared and lightning lit up the sky. The sound of the television mixed with the crashing thunder in my ears. When I heard that the institutes were closed, it felt as though a thousand years now stood between me and my childhood dream of becoming a doctor. Lately, I would wear a white doctor’s coat, look into the mirror, and tell myself, “Be patient, it’s almost time.” But the Taliban cut me off from my dream just as I entered my third semester. To be honest, we’ve learned how to fight back since the Taliban took control of our fate. They close one door, and the girls turn to another. We want to learn. We want to gain knowledge. What is wrong with that? I don’t understand how a ruler, for the sake of holding on to power, can take the future of so many girls hostage. My sisters and I want to study and work hard enough to make up for the lack of an adult son in our family. If the Taliban hadn’t come, five or six of us would have already graduated from university and found jobs.
At the beginning of last winter, I went to a dental clinic run by a female specialist and asked if I could intern there. Even though I didn’t have a diploma, she allowed me to work. I don’t receive a salary, but I got to learn skills in a medical environment. So far, I’ve learned how to clean teeth, disinfect root canals, and perform basic procedures. I stand beside the specialist every day, watching her hands carefully, dreaming that I’ll be a specialist like her one day. I keep thinking that our country’s social and economic situation would change if girls in Afghanistan had the opportunity to study and work like girls in other countries. Families would no longer feel ashamed of having daughters. A girl is a human being, just like a boy. Girls can learn, gain skills, and work just like boys. Before the Taliban’s return, one of my sisters worked in an office. She helped to financially support the family. In January 2023, the Taliban shut down her office and she lost her job. Now, I study at night and work during the day. I want to become a writer and tell the story of our lives. I want to write about what it means to live with eleven sisters. I want to write about my mother — a woman who gave birth to and raised 11 daughters and one son. She never went to school herself, but she never stopped us from going to school or university because of housework or the burden of caring for young children. My father says the greatest wealth in his life is his daughters. Even now, he continues to try so that we can keep learning. I dream of the day when these restrictions are lifted — when girls can study and work freely once again.
Shukria is the pseudonym for a young woman from Afghanistan. Her story was written by Khadija Haidari, a reporter for Zan Times.>>
Source: https://zantimes.com/2025/03/24/one-house-11-sisters-and-countless-sorrows-and-hopes/

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Zan Times - March 19, 2025 - By: Younus Negah
<<Hungry youth of Panjshir join the Taliban for bread
Recently, the Taliban recruited 600 young men from Panjshir into their Ministries of Interior and Defence. According to Tolonews, an additional 1,500 will soon be recruited to protect the Taliban’s interests in the province. Mohammad Agha Hakim, the Taliban governor for Panjshir, stated that their Ministry of Interior will recruit even more Panjshiri youth to serve their “system,” as they call the Taliban regime. The faces of the newly recruited youth are etched exhaustion and poverty. One of these new recruits, a man by the name of Rozuddin, told Tolonews that he had been unemployed for at least three years. “Unemployment has its own problems, and I thank the Islamic Emirate for providing job opportunities,” he said. He didn’t smile, and appeared saddened and ashamed. To get hired by the Taliban, these young men had to pass through multiple employment filters. Many of those youths had different aspirations before the Taliban took power. Now, they’ve adjusted both their mentality and outward appearance for their own survival. One is Nouruddin, who kept his hair and beard untrimmed, wore a Kandahari hat, and wrapped his head in a dark shawl commonly worn by Taliban members from the south. Ainuddin, another resident of Panjshir, told Tolonews that young people were joining the Taliban due to the poor economy. “It is because of joblessness. If they go to Iran, there are many problems there; people lose their lives. It’s all due to unemployment,” he said. Such comments suggest that, had they other opportunities, these youth would not be carrying Taliban weapons on their shoulders. They did not say they were excited to serve the Taliban Emirate or happy to have the opportunity to join the ranks of Taliban fighters. Another group of 600 young men had previously been recruited from Panjshir into the Taliban’s Ministries of Defence and Interior. It appears that youths from Panjshir have been recruited in greater numbers than youths from other provinces.
Panjshir: A prison for its residents
The Taliban described their “conquest” of Panjshir as their greatest achievement. They composed poetry and songs, danced, and celebrated. In the initial days after the Taliban gained control, they held festivities and congratulatory gatherings from Panjshir to Rawalpindi. For a long time afterward, they transformed the province into a military base. Even now, Panjshir remains under heavy military surveillance, compared to other parts of Afghanistan. A large segment of Panjshir’s residents have fled, while thousands more have been imprisoned. In October 2022 — about a year after the Taliban takeover — the Resistance Front announced that the Taliban had imprisoned 5,400 Panjshiri residents. At that time, Mawlawi Hussamuddin Hussam, former head of Afghanistan’s Council of Ulema and a member of the Resistance Front, told 8AM Media, “We have exact figures showing 5,400 political prisoners from Panjshir province alone. The Taliban use hostage-taking to weaken the resistance, commit genocide, extort money, and obtain economic and intelligence advantages.” The Hasht-e-Subh report detailed shocking accounts of torture and killings of Panjshiri men. Nasir Ahmad, a Panjshir resident previously imprisoned by the Taliban, recounted, “About five months ago, the Taliban arrested my cousin and two other youths from our village. We found my cousin’s body, who had died under torture, a month later. We only recently found belongings — a pair of shoes and a handkerchief — of the other two youths from a water channel. Dogs had eaten their bodies, which the Taliban had abandoned there.”
In October 2024, the Taliban laid the cornerstone for a new prison in Bazarak, the capital of Panjshir. The budget for its construction is 12 million afghani. According to local media reports, this prison will accommodate 1,000 inmates. A 26-year-old Panjshir resident, reacting to the construction of the new prison, told Radio Azadi, “Building another prison in Panjshir is deeply troubling for us. It has a profoundly negative psychological effect. Constructing a prison essentially means that the Taliban intend to imprison even more of our people.” Panjshiri residents have repeatedly stated that the entire province has become like one large prison. In October 2024, a 29-year-old man told Radio Azadi, “After evening prayers, we cannot even step outside. If they find us outside our homes, they arrest us under various pretexts. Farmers can’t tend their farms, and shepherds can’t lead their herds to mountains or pastures. People are extremely frustrated. Since the Taliban took power, everyone in Afghanistan has suffered, but the people of Panjshir have suffered the most.”
Torture, hunger, and brainwashing
Over the past three years, Taliban prisons have claimed numerous victims from across Afghanistan, especially from Panjshir and the northern provinces. In September 2023, UNAMA reported on how the Taliban torture prisoners, stating, “The Taliban use electric shocks, severe beatings, suffocation, forced ingestion of water, blindfolding, threats, and other forms of torture to extract confessions.” Wars feed on the hungry and marginalized. In the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thousands of young mercenaries from Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and even the Far East have died on the battlefield. The flames of war in Syria and Iraq have been fed by the flesh and blood of impoverished humans, including thousands of young men from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and other regions, often in exchange for salaries or residency privileges. Likewise, Afghanistan’s previous government’s army stood on the shoulders of unemployed young men. For Taliban fighters, too, their primary motives were money and extortion. The Taliban recruited unemployed and desperate men in villages and cities and gave them the power to extort, torture, kill, and collect tithes. Thus, the entirety of Afghanistan burned in a fire whose main fuel was people’s hunger. It was not uncommon for two brothers to find themselves on opposite sides, one fighting for the republic’s army and the other in the ranks of the Taliban. Since taking over all of Afghanistan, the Taliban have driven the people of Panjshir to such desperation through torture, brainwashing, and enforced deprivation, that hundreds of young men from the province are now signing up to join the Taliban. They guard Taliban prisons where their own brothers and sisters are chained, and patrol Panjshir’s roads and villages, enforcing Taliban-imposed curfews and movement restrictions on shepherds, farmers, and shopkeepers. This is not only Panjshir’s story. To varying degrees, all regions of Afghanistan share this fate. Most of the young men from Kandahar, Khost, Badakhshan, and Helmand are hungry people who, when forced to choose between dying from poverty and fighting against themselves and their compatriots, reluctantly choose the latter.>>
Source: https://zantimes.com/2025/03/19/hungry-youth-of-panjshir-join-the-taliban-for-bread/

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