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Riccardo Valle

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The success by the Afghan Taliban didn't change the degree of threat that the Islamic State Khorasan posed in Afghanistan. It simply forced the Islamic State to shift its military tactics.”

Nytimes

Director of research at the Khorasan Diary, a research platform based in Islamabad

24 Mar 2024 4 1

Asfandyar Mir

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“ISIS-K has long been motivated by the logic of outbidding in its attacks. It seeks to outperform rival jihadis by carrying out more audacious attacks to distinguish its jihadi brand and assert leadership of the global jihadi vanguard.”

Nytimes

Senior expert on South Asia security at the U.S. Institute of Peace

24 Mar 2024 5 1

Shah Mehrabi

Inserted 2 years ago

“In a country already devastated by the twin crises of war and COVID-19, the desperate lack of dollars in the market is leaving importers unable to pay for their shipments. Food is becoming scarce and grocery stores are unable to fully restock. As prices rise, people are rushing to withdraw and spend their savings before the banking sector collapses. Private businesses are not able to fund operations, shutting down and laying off the privileged few who still have jobs. A growing number of Afghans are suffering from hunger, poverty, and a lack of access to basic goods and services. In short, the country is in a total humanitarian crisis.”

Aljazeera

Member of the Supreme Council of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, professor of Economics at Montgomery College and former advisor to the Afghan president

29 Jan 2022 8 3

Fawzia Koofi

Inserted 2 years ago

“In the situation where there is a lot of disunity and the political community of Afghanistan has not taken steps to unite and have a common position at the negotiation table, the talks will further weaken our position and further boost that of the Taliban.”

Aljazeera

Former deputy speaker of Afghanistan’s parliament

24 Jan 2022 2 2

Shafiullah Azam

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are requesting them to unfreeze Afghan assets and not punish ordinary Afghans because of the political discourse. Because of the starvation, because of the deadly winter, I think it's time for the international community to support Afghans, not punish them because of their political disputes.”

Aljazeera

Taliban delegate

23 Jan 2022 4 2

Fatima Rae

Inserted 2 years ago

“Restarting girls' schools is a good thing, [but] they need to be firm on their promise. These words should not just be for the sake of taking a stand. The Taliban does not like to see young girls at all. The big obstacle for girls [in Afghanistan] is that the Taliban says they should only leave the house with a mahram [male guardian]. The second problem is that if women are not allowed to work, education is meaningless.”

Aljazeera

Kabul-based women’s rights activist

17 Jan 2022 6 3

Zabihullah Mujahid

Inserted 2 years ago

“Education for girls and women is a question of capacity. We are trying to solve these problems by the coming year, so that schools and universities can open. We are not against education. In many provinces, the higher classes (girls' school) are open, but in some places where it is closed, the reasons are economic crisis and the framework, which we need to work on in areas which are overcrowded. And for that we need to establish the new procedure.”

Aljazeera

Afghanistan Deputy Minister of Information and Culture

15 Jan 2022 2 3

Ahmed-Waleed Kakar

Inserted 2 years ago

“The main challenges for women are those reflected across the country at large - the financial and economic. Most Afghans live in rural areas where people depend on agriculture rather than formal employment to make a living. But now, they are struggling to get by and there's a massive surge in food insecurity. Women who were in the public sector, alongside the men, are receiving salaries irregularly, if at all.”

Aljazeera

Independent Afghan analyst

12 Jan 2022 9 2

Eloom Bibi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Charity from people helped me a lot. But now, there's nothing [coming in] and I understand why. People are jobless. There are thousands of widows in this country who used to work. Now that the Taliban has taken over the country, all women have been made to stay home. What can a woman do to support her family? Things were better before. My kids were going to school - girls and boys. We used to receive donations, and women were free.”

Aljazeera

Widowed mother of six from Shemol village on the outskirts of Jalalabad

12 Jan 2022 6 2

Ashraf Ghani

Inserted 2 years ago

“On the morning of that day, I had no inkling that by late afternoon I would be leaving.”

Aljazeera

Former President of Afghanistan

30 Dec 2021 0 1

Nayera Koahistani

Inserted 2 years ago

“I want to tell the world, tell the Taliban to stop killing. We want freedom, we want justice, we want human rights. Women's rights are human rights. We must defend our rights.”

Aljazeera

Protester in Kabul

28 Dec 2021 5 3

Ahmad Nader Nadery

Inserted 2 years ago

“It was the most crucifying pain. Everything was going to crumble down, all that we worked and built in the past 20 years.”

Nytimes

Former senior advisor to the president of Afghanistan

24 Dec 2021 2 3

Reporters Without Borders

Inserted 2 years ago

“A total of 231 media outlets have had to close and more than 6.400 journalists have lost their jobs since 15 August. Women journalists have been hit the hardest, with four out of five no longer working. More than four out of every ten media outlets have disappeared and 60% of journalists and media employees are no longer able to work. Women have suffered much more than men: 84% of them have lost their jobs.”

Tolonews

Survey conducted by Reporters Without Borders and Afghan Independent Journalists Association

22 Dec 2021 3 3

Imran Khan

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unless action is taken immediately, Afghanistan is heading for chaos. 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.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Pakistan

19 Dec 2021 1 4

Imran Khan

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even before 15th of August, half the population below the poverty line, years of corrupt governance, 75 percent of the budget supported by foreign aid. Now a country in that situation, after 15th of August, if the foreign aid dries up, the foreign funds get frozen, banking system freezes, any country is going to collapse, let alone Afghanistan which suffered for the past 40 years.”

Tolonews

Prime Minister of Pakistan

19 Dec 2021 6 3

Hamid Karzai

Inserted 2 years ago

“Pakistan's government should not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs and should avoid speaking on behalf of Afghanistan in international forums.”

Tolonews

Former President of Afghanistan

19 Dec 2021 1 1

Amir Khan Muttaqi

Inserted 2 years ago

“All must acknowledge that political isolation of Afghanistan is not beneficial for anyone, therefore it is imperative that all support the prevailing stability and back it both politically and economically.”

Aljazeera

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in the Taliban's government

19 Dec 2021 1 2

Imran Khan

Inserted 2 years ago

“They [the US] must de-link the Taliban government from 40 million Afghan citizens, even if they [have] been in conflict with Taliban for 20 years.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Pakistan

19 Dec 2021 5 3

Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We cannot ignore the danger of complete economic meltdown.”

Aljazeera

Pakistan Foreign Minister

19 Dec 2021 2 2

Abdul Ghani Baradar

Inserted 2 years ago

“The US is unhappy about leaving Afghanistan, the people who are here and who were allies to the US want to create economic problems here. The money that they have frozen belongs to Afghanistan or to Ghani? Why is the world not telling the US that this money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, not the government officials? Economic problems are increasing day by day. When a country plunges into economic problems, it will not only affect that country, but will also affect other countries. Our only demand is that the US should show the same behavior toward the Afghan people and government as it does with the world.”

Tolonews

Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan

14 Dec 2021 4 3

Josep Borrell

Inserted 2 years ago

“We share with Qatar the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy. This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September.”

Tolonews

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

14 Dec 2021 3 2

Hamid Karzai

Inserted 2 years ago

“I have had conversations with them [Taliban] on a lot of issues--the return of women to back to work. The schools, the flag of the country, the national flag of the country. And the need for a political process, for a government that belongs to all Afghans, that all Afghans see as theirs--that is inclusive. We really ... want them to go back to school - the girls - not only to schools but to universities, but to the workplace. Yes, we have had talks about this with the Taliban. They hear me on this. They understand it and they say that it will happen. We say that it should happen now, immediately.”

Tolonews

Former President of Afghanistan

03 Dec 2021 2 3

Heather Barr

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's been becoming more and more clear to the Taliban over the last three and a half months that women's rights, particularly girls education, is a really serious barrier to achieving some things that they want from the international community - recognition, legitimacy, funding, unfreezing of assets.”

Cnn

Associate director of women's rights at Human Rights Watch

03 Dec 2021 4 1

Jawed Sangdel

Inserted 2 years ago

“NATO and its allies made many mistakes in Afghanistan and now they are worried about a regional superpowers in Afghanistan; because of this, they hold meetings to satisfy NATO's members to build a mechanism to cooperate with the new government in Afghanistan.”

Tolonews

Political expert

01 Dec 2021 2 2

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 2 years ago

“NATO went into Afghanistan to prevent terrorists from using the country again to attack us. Despite that we must recognize that, over the years, the international community set a level of ambition that went well beyond the original aim of fighting terrorism.”

Tolonews

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

01 Dec 2021 2 1

Patricia Gossman

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Taliban leadership's promised amnesty has not stopped local commanders from summarily executing or disappearing former Afghan security force members. The burden is on the Taliban to prevent further killings, hold those responsible to account, and compensate the victims' families.”

Hrw

Associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch

30 Nov 2021 6 2

Amir Khan Muttaqi

Inserted 2 years ago

“The assets should be freed immediately. The Americans don't have any military front with us now. What is the reason for freezing the assets? The assets don't belong to the Mujahideen (Islamic Emirate) but to the people of Afghanistan. The US froze our assets and then told us that it will provide us humanitarian aid. What does it mean?”

Tolonews

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in the Taliban's government

21 Nov 2021 5 4

Emmerson Gono

Inserted 2 years ago

“The health system of Afghanistan was very donor dependent, and the donors withdrew their support. The implications of that cut-off are tragic, and felt immediately. We are getting overwhelmed with the workload, people are coming from all over the province and even other provinces. We go far beyond our capacity, because we will not turn away someone we see is critically ill.”

Theguardian

Project coordinator for MSF in Helmand (Afghanistan)

21 Nov 2021 2 3

Zabihullah Mujahid

Inserted 2 years ago

“The UAE by hoisting its flag has reopened its embassy in Kabul. This is a new good move by the UAE, Afghanistan and the UAE have a good bilateral relationship.”

Tolonews

Taliban spokesman

20 Nov 2021 3 2

Janat Fahim Chakari

Inserted 2 years ago

“As Russia is concerned by the possible threats in Afghanistan or the existence of Daesh in the country, it should help the Islamic Emirate to eliminate Daesh.”

Tolonews

Political analyst and university instructor

19 Nov 2021 3 3

Saeed Khosti

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Islamic Emirate is committed to not allowing anyone to abuse Afghanistan's soil against others. There is also no one in Afghanistan to pose threats to anyone.”

Tolonews

Afghan interior ministry’s spokesman

19 Nov 2021 1 1

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“We face serious tasks in the Afghan direction, especially after the Americans have pulled out from that country. The developments in Afghanistan prompt the need for additional measures to ensure Russia's security on the southern frontiers and provide assistance to Central Asian states as our allies, which perceive Russia as a guarantor of stability in the region. It is necessary to continue working in this mode, taking measures to prevent uncontrolled flows of refugees and prevent the infiltration of terrorists and other criminal elements through our border.”

Tolonews

President of Russia

18 Nov 2021 6 2

Hasibullah Soroush

Inserted 2 years ago

“Uzbekistan's team will repair and reactivate all the equipment and every section of the airport [ Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport]. It will also train in Uzbekistan around 83 technical employees of the ministry who are deployed at Maulana airport.”

Tolonews

Afghan Deputy Minister of Transport and Aviation

14 Nov 2021 4 2

Qudratullah Hamza

Inserted 2 years ago

“The delegation from the transport ministry which has come to Balkh held talks with Uzbekistan officials on airport reconstruction and the railway. Talks were also held on Afghanistan's electricity bill debt to Uzbekistan, and we said when the banking system problems are resolved we will pay the bill and Uzbekistan should not cut the imported electricity.”

Tolonews

Balkh's governor (Afghanistan)

14 Nov 2021 4 3

Esmatullah Ergashev

Inserted 2 years ago

“We were urged to help in resumption of the airport and repair the damaged equipment. Hence, we have brought 30 technical staff from Uzbekistan, and they are repairing the equipment and reconstructing the airport and soon the airport will become operational. Uzbekistan will try to help Afghanistan in different areas, especially in infrastructure.”

Tolonews

Special representative of Uzbekistan's president

14 Nov 2021 3 1

Amir Khan Muttaqi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Afghanistan needs a small number of troops, not hundreds of thousands of troops ... We will try to collect and form a military from the committed, loyal ones, and those who love Islam and the country whether they are part of the former government or not.”

Tolonews

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in the Taliban's government

14 Nov 2021 3 2

Amir Khan Muttaqi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We will not allow anyone to abuse Afghanistan's soil against others… (will not) allow Tahrik Taliban Pakistan and others because we have pledged it. When we make pledges, we remain committed to them.”

Tolonews

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in the Taliban's government

14 Nov 2021 2 1

Hasib Yousefi

Inserted 2 years ago

“I have worked for around 15 years in various media outlets. My job was directing and programming and I worked for 10 years at Khurshid TV. After I lost my job, and with the increased level of poverty and misery in our country, with the little money that I had I bought this cart to work and be prepared for the winter.”

Tolonews

Afghan employee of a private media outlet now street vendor in Kabul

10 Nov 2021 2 3

David Beasley

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is as bad as you possibly can imagine. In fact, we're now looking at the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth. Ninety-five percent of the people don't have enough food, and now we're looking at 23 million people marching towards starvation. The next six months are going to be catastrophic. It is going to be hell on Earth.”

Bbc

Executive Director of the World Food Programme

08 Nov 2021 4 3

Yongbiao Zhu

Inserted 2 years ago

“Muttaqi's [Amir Khan Muttaqi] visit to Pakistan is likely to be transactional with discussions on practical issues of mutual concern, including Afghan Taliban's role as mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban.”

Globaltimes

Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies in Lanzhou University

08 Nov 2021 5 1

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“The success by the Afghan Taliban didn't change the degree of threat that the Islamic State Khorasan posed in Afghanistan. It simply forced the Islamic State to shift its military tactics.”

“ISIS-K has long been motivated by the logic of outbidding in its attacks. It seeks to outperform rival jihadis by carrying out more audacious attacks to distinguish its jihadi brand and assert leadership of the global jihadi vanguard.”

“In the situation where there is a lot of disunity and the political community of Afghanistan has not taken steps to unite and have a common position at the negotiation table, the talks will further weaken our position and further boost that of the Taliban.”

“On the morning of that day, I had no inkling that by late afternoon I would be leaving.”

“I want to tell the world, tell the Taliban to stop killing. We want freedom, we want justice, we want human rights. Women's rights are human rights. We must defend our rights.”

“It was the most crucifying pain. Everything was going to crumble down, all that we worked and built in the past 20 years.”

“Unless action is taken immediately, Afghanistan is heading for chaos. 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.”

“Pakistan's government should not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs and should avoid speaking on behalf of Afghanistan in international forums.”

“All must acknowledge that political isolation of Afghanistan is not beneficial for anyone, therefore it is imperative that all support the prevailing stability and back it both politically and economically.”

“They [the US] must de-link the Taliban government from 40 million Afghan citizens, even if they [have] been in conflict with Taliban for 20 years.”

“We cannot ignore the danger of complete economic meltdown.”

“We share with Qatar the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy. This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September.”

“NATO and its allies made many mistakes in Afghanistan and now they are worried about a regional superpowers in Afghanistan; because of this, they hold meetings to satisfy NATO's members to build a mechanism to cooperate with the new government in Afghanistan.”

“NATO went into Afghanistan to prevent terrorists from using the country again to attack us. Despite that we must recognize that, over the years, the international community set a level of ambition that went well beyond the original aim of fighting terrorism.”

“The Taliban leadership's promised amnesty has not stopped local commanders from summarily executing or disappearing former Afghan security force members. The burden is on the Taliban to prevent further killings, hold those responsible to account, and compensate the victims' families.”

“The UAE by hoisting its flag has reopened its embassy in Kabul. This is a new good move by the UAE, Afghanistan and the UAE have a good bilateral relationship.”

“As Russia is concerned by the possible threats in Afghanistan or the existence of Daesh in the country, it should help the Islamic Emirate to eliminate Daesh.”

“The Islamic Emirate is committed to not allowing anyone to abuse Afghanistan's soil against others. There is also no one in Afghanistan to pose threats to anyone.”

“Uzbekistan's team will repair and reactivate all the equipment and every section of the airport [ Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport]. It will also train in Uzbekistan around 83 technical employees of the ministry who are deployed at Maulana airport.”

“Afghanistan needs a small number of troops, not hundreds of thousands of troops ... We will try to collect and form a military from the committed, loyal ones, and those who love Islam and the country whether they are part of the former government or not.”

“We will not allow anyone to abuse Afghanistan's soil against others… (will not) allow Tahrik Taliban Pakistan and others because we have pledged it. When we make pledges, we remain committed to them.”

“Muttaqi's [Amir Khan Muttaqi] visit to Pakistan is likely to be transactional with discussions on practical issues of mutual concern, including Afghan Taliban's role as mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban.”

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