Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has endorsed a penal code for Taliban courts consisting of 119 articles, which effectively authorizes the killing of armed opponents and sets out punishments for a wide range of alleged crimes. On January 7, the Taliban Supreme Court published the Penal Code of Courts, endorsed by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the group’s leader. The document spans ten chapters, 119 articles, and 60 pages and was released in Pashto. The code took effect immediately upon issuance and covers a broad range of issues. Its provisions w…
Rahmanullah Laknawal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA-backed “Kandahar Strike Force” until August 2021, opened fire on two U.S. National Guard members on Wednesday, just a few blocks from the White House. According to information released about him, Laknawal served in a special military unit in Kandahar that operated directly under CIA supervision and carried out counter-Taliban missions. This elite unit, known within Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) as the “Zero Units,” was responsible for conducting …
Abbas Ebrahimzada, a prominent Afghan businessman and former deputy speaker of Afghanistan’s House of Representatives, has been imprisoned in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, for the past week. Ebrahimzada, who owns the Ibrahimzada Group of Companies, has invested over $50 million in Uzbekistan over the last four years. Sources close to Ebrahimzada told Independent Persian that he was arrested on Wednesday, September 24, following multiple complaints filed by Afghan “business rivals.” Despite posting a bail of $350,000 to the Tashkent…
A 19-year-old woman who had studied Islamic theology in Turkey was found to be the leader of a secret ISIS-Khorasan Province cell in Namangan, eastern Uzbekistan, according to a statement from Uzbekistan’s State Security Service. The Uzbek state media has reported the arrest of a 19-year-old woman and her associates who are accused of collaborating with ISIS- -Khorasan In its official announcement , the Uzbekistan’s State Security Service revealed that the woman, after attending religious courses in a private Islamic center in Istanbul in 202…
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