Toxic
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I don't really understand what Taliban plans to achieve by completely cutting off women from society and education and forcing them back to the pre industrial era of women to giving birth without medicine or trained doctors
Earthquake / weather related News.. Afghanistan.
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Rational Philosopher
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They want to maintain the tribal gender roles. It is a matter they associate with their dignity or honour and hence cannot be compromised. Maybe some leniency will be extended in the future who knows.
You have to remember this entire government the power rests with tribal dudes.
Starlord
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Taliban soon will be chanting Jai Shri Raam, while sending suicide bombers in Pakistan to implement Shariah law.
Pradotlc
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Afgandoos abuse Pakistan 247 …since day 1
Don’t confuse criminals like Bajwa with the subject matter on hand
If you can’t see the obvious your clearly have issues
You like them ? Help them your self…
Trailer23
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Indians may not be familiar to the word 'baighairat', par challo - mitti pao.
This is what their MEA Spokesman (Randhir Jaiswal) posted on his twitter handle
It appears the Rice were/are from Pakistan - with the "Gift from India" + Flag.
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Search teams retrieve bodies as Afghan quake toll rises to over 2,200
AFP
September 4, 2025
Afghans commute along a hillside in the aftermath of an earthquake in the Nurgal district of Kunar province, Afghanistan on September 3. — AFP
More than 2,200 people have been killed in the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on the weekend, the latest toll from the authorities said, as volunteers and rescuers retrieved bodies from the rubble on Thursday.
The vast majority of the total 2,217 dead and nearly 4,000 injured were in the mountainous Kunar province near the border with Pakistan, deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat wrote on X, adding that “rescue efforts are still ongoing”.
Firat said that the earlier toll of 1,469 dead and more than 3,700 injured would likely rise. “We cannot stop hoping” that injured people remain alive under the rubble, he told AFP.
Limited access to the hardest hit areas of mountainous Kunar province delayed rescue and relief efforts, with rockfalls from repeated aftershocks obstructing already precarious roads etched onto the side of cliffs.
While most of the areas that had been unreachable were accessed by Wednesday, expectations of finding survivors were fading fast.
“Many survivors are still believed to be trapped beneath collapsed homes in remote villages, and the window for finding them alive is rapidly closing,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Poor infrastructure in the impoverished country, still fragile from four decades of war, has also stymied the emergency response.
The WHO warned that local healthcare services were “under immense strain”, with shortages of trauma supplies, medicines and staff. The agency has appealed for $4 million to deliver lifesaving health interventions, expand mobile health services and supply distribution.
“Every hour counts,” WHO emergency team lead in Afghanistan, Jamshed Tanoli, said in a statement. “Hospitals are struggling, families are grieving and survivors have lost everything.”
The loss of US foreign aid to the country in January this year has exacerbated the rapid depletion of emergency stockpiles and logistical resources.
NGOs and the UN have warned that the earthquake creates a crisis within a crisis, with cash-strapped Afghanistan already contending with overlapping humanitarian disasters.
UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said on X that the quake had “affected more than 500,000 people” in eastern Afghanistan.
After decades of conflict, the country is contending with endemic poverty, severe drought and the influx of millions of Afghans forced back to the country by Pakistan and Iran since the Taliban’s 2021 takeover.
Even as Afghanistan reeled from its latest disaster, Pakistan began a new push to expel Afghans, with more than 6,300 people crossing the Torkham border point in quake-hit Nangarhar province on Tuesday.
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A timeline of major earthquakes to have hit Afghanistan over past decade
Surrounded by mountains, Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes as it sits near junction of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a highly active seismic zone.
Anadolu Agency
September 1, 2025
A powerful earthquake jolted eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan late on Sunday, killing at least 800 people and injuring 2,500 others, with authorities fearing a rise in the death toll.
Surrounded by mountains, Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes as it sits near the junction of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a highly active seismic zone.
Many of the recent quakes have had shallow depths, which increased the intensity of shaking on the surface and destruction.
Here is a timeline of major earthquakes that struck the country since the Taliban returned to power in 2021 and before.
August 31, 2025: A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Kunar province, killing more than 800 people and injuring more than 2,000 others, and flattening hundreds of houses and buildings.
Afghans dig graves for the victims’ bodies from the earthquakes in Sarbuland village, Zendeh Jan district of Herat province on Oct 8, 2023. — AFP
October 7, 2023: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks in Herat province killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000. The earthquake was the country’s deadliest in years.
March 21, 2023: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the northeastern province of Badakhshan, killing at least 13 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
September 5, 2022: At least eight people were killed after tremors hit Kunar province, causing dozens of houses to collapse.
This photograph shows damaged buildings following an earthquake in Gayan district, Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 22, 2022. — AFP
June 22, 2022: A shallow, 6.1-magnitude earthquake in the eastern provinces of Paktika, Paktia, Khost, and Nangarhar killed at least 1,036 people and caused thousands of homes to collapse.
January 17, 2022: A 5.9 magnitude shallow earthquake in the western province of Badghis killed at least 26 people.
Oct 26, 2015: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake, one of the most powerful quakes in the country’s history, killed 399 in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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China prepares first batch of aid for earthquake-hit Afghanistan
Preparations have been in full swing at Zhengzhou International Airport since Saturday morning, as China readies the first batch of emergency humanitarian aid – part of a total package worth 50 million yuan (about $7 million) – for earthquake-hit Afghanistan. The
Preparations to send emergency humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit Afghanistan have been in full swing at Zhengzhou International Airport in the capital of central China's Henan Province, September 6, 2025. /CGTN
Preparations have been in full swing at Zhengzhou International Airport since Saturday morning, as China readies the first batch of emergency humanitarian aid – part of a total package worth 50 million yuan (about $7 million) – for earthquake-hit Afghanistan.
The two cargo flights, carrying tents, blankets are scheduled to depart early Sunday morning and arrive in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, at 9 a.m. local time.
China's first batch of emergency humanitarian aid for earthquake-hit Afghanistan is seen in the capital of Henan Province, September 6, 2025. /CGTN
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Iran’s Red Crescent delivered first 100-ton humanitarian aid shipment to quake-stricken Afghanistan
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Afghans are our Iranian cousins.
Watandar
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Chinese are intelligent and slowly building trust with Afghans. India is also sending aid and rebuilding its relationship with Afghans, including the Taliban. Iran is also doing it's part in this crisis. I wish Pakistanis had such brains.China prepares first batch of aid for earthquake-hit Afghanistan
Preparations have been in full swing at Zhengzhou International Airport since Saturday morning, as China readies the first batch of emergency humanitarian aid – part of a total package worth 50 million yuan (about $7 million) – for earthquake-hit Afghanistan. Thenews.cgtn.com
Preparations to send emergency humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit Afghanistan have been in full swing at Zhengzhou International Airport in the capital of central China's Henan Province, September 6, 2025. /CGTN
Preparations have been in full swing at Zhengzhou International Airport since Saturday morning, as China readies the first batch of emergency humanitarian aid – part of a total package worth 50 million yuan (about $7 million) – for earthquake-hit Afghanistan.
The two cargo flights, carrying tents, blankets are scheduled to depart early Sunday morning and arrive in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, at 9 a.m. local time.
China's first batch of emergency humanitarian aid for earthquake-hit Afghanistan is seen in the capital of Henan Province, September 6, 2025. /CGTN
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WHO asks Taliban to lift female aid worker restrictions following earthquakes
by The Frontier Post
KABUL (Reuters): The World Health Organization has asked Taliban authorities to lift restrictions on Afghan female aid workers, allowing them to travel without male guardians and help women struggling to access care after a powerful earthquake killed 2,200 people in eastern Afghanistan.
“A very big issue now is the increasing paucity of female staff in these places,” Dr. Mukta Sharma, the deputy representative of WHO’s Afghanistan office, told Reuters.
She estimated around 90 percent of medical staff in the area were male, and the remaining 10 percent were often midwives and nurses, rather than doctors, who could treat severe wounds. This was hampering care as women were uncomfortable or afraid to interact with male staff and travel alone to receive care. The September 1 magnitude 6 quake and its aftershocks injured more than 3,600 people and left thousands homeless in a country already dealing with severe aid cuts and a slew of humanitarian crises since the Taliban took over in 2021 as foreign forces left.
The Afghan health ministry and a spokesperson for the Taliban administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Taliban says it respects women’s rights in line with its interpretation of Islamic law and have previously said they would ensure women could receive aid. Its administration in 2022 ordered Afghan female NGO staff to stop working outside the home. Humanitarian officials say there have been exemptions, particularly in the health and education sectors, but many said these were patchwork and not sufficient to allow a surge of female staff, particularly in an emergency situation that required travel.
That meant aid organizations and female staff faced uncertainty, Sharma said, and in some cases were not able to take the risk.
“The restrictions are huge, the mahram (male guardian requirements) issue continues and no formal exemption has been provided by the de facto authorities,” she said, adding her team had raised the issue with authorities last week.
“That’s why we felt we had to advocate with (authorities) to say, this is the time you really need to have more female health workers present, let us bring them in, and let us search from other places where they’re available.”
Sharma said she was extremely concerned about women in the future being able to access mental health care to deal with trauma as well as for those whose male family members had been killed, leaving them to navigate restrictions on women without a male guardian.
Peer Gul from Somai district in Kunar province, which was severely hit by the quakes, said many women from his village had experienced trauma and high blood pressure after the earthquake and were struggling to reach medical care.
“There is no female doctor for examinations; only one male doctor is available,” he said.
Sharma noted the growing shortage of Afghan female doctors as the Taliban have barred female students from high school and university, meaning a pipeline of women doctors was not being replenished.
The UN estimates around 11,600 pregnant women were also impacted by the quakes in a country with some of the highest maternal mortality rates in Asia.
Funding cuts, including by the US administration this year, had already left the health system reeling. Around 80 health facilities had already closed in the affected areas this year due to US aid cuts and another 16 health posts had to be shuttered due to damage from the earthquake, Sharma said.
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