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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

I went back to Kabul for the first time since Taliban rule, and saw a different city

I went back to Kabul for the first time since Taliban rule, and saw a different city | The National

On the eve of the Taliban government's anniversary, the Afghan capital is grappling with a changed identity

www.thenationalnews.com

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Today I am at Torkham, on the Afghan border with Pakistan, where 10s of thousands of Afghans have gathered, having been expelled from Pakistan. >2,000 families have crossed here in the past 24 hours. We’re seeing perhaps the largest forced expulsion in the world since the 1950s.

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Khalil Haqqani meets with the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul, with his gun hidden behind a pillow on the couch

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2 years

Today I got to visit the Zawiyat Al Afghaniya, a building in the old city of Jerusalem that was built 390 years ago as a hostel for visiting Afghans, and since then has served as a centre of Sufism in the city.

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The camp near Torkham housing Afghans expelled from Pakistan is now so big I had to climb a mountain to capture it, and even then there’s more beyond the mountains in the distance.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

5 bombs went off in Afghanistan today - in Mazar, in Kunduz, in Kabul, and in Nangarhar. The day started with a Taliban announcement banning TikTok and the video game PUBG. It’s going to end with a lesson for the government that there are much, much bigger things to focus on.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Excellent detective work by @harounrahimi shows that this photo, appearing to show #Afghanistan 's former minister of peace Sadat Naderi and nat'l security adviser Hamdullah Mohib driving a Bentley through Marylebone, London, was taken sometime after early July, 2021.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

I speak about six words of Pashto. When I was travelling through Kabul airport a couple months ago, everyone (including the Taliban officers) spoke to me in Persian. What’s the point of making such easily disproven claims?

Harun Najafizada 🇦🇫

@HNajafizada

2 years

۴. در میدان هوایی کابل میگویند «پشتو گپ بزن پارسی چی است؟»

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@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

At a registration post 50m from the border, at 4pm, Afghan soldiers who have been working on shift since 5am struggle to register hundreds of returnees from Pakistan.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

This boy brought his little dog with him from Pakistan, and it provided some much-needed good vibes.

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@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

This tent has just been set up by HARO, an NGO, working with Unicef, just 60m from the border. In here, aid workers educate returnee families about how to keep their children safe from land mines and other risks they may face.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

A long thread on how Afghan drugs, the Taliban, global inflation, and crime in the Middle East fit together:

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

In this video I estimate there are 10K people in this camp on border but an interior ministry official told me afterwards there are more than 20K people

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Afghanistan is the graveyard of John Simpson’s reputation

John Simpson

@JohnSimpsonNews

3 years

And not even the pitch can stop Kabul’s cricketers. (Note: cricket was introduced to Afghanistan by the Taliban.)

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

This woman is a Shiite Hazara police officer, who joined the force 1 month before the Taliban took over last year. Today, she has been assigned to man this checkpoint at the entrance to Dashte Barchi. Security forces are on high alert after a bomb killed 8 Shiites yesterday.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

You don't need a gun or a social media account in order to be brave. In fact, most brave people don't have those things.

Frud Bezhan فرود بيژن

@FrudBezhan

3 years

Afghans erecting national flag in Abdul Haq square in #Kabul , in defiance of Taliban The militants have replaced the black, red, and green national flag with their own white flags across #Afghanistan But Afghans are braving threats, possible violence to mark Independence Day

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

1 year

Imagine if there were a train from Khorog to Eshkashem to Chitral. The hospitality would be unparalleled and you'd look out the window and see things like this:

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Me on @BBCWorld explaining what’s happening right now on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where a mass expulsion effort is underway.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

These Afghans expelled from Pakistan have just arrived at the displaced persons camp, about to join 20,000 other people spending the night here in these mountains, many of them sleeping rough in the open air not knowing where to go next.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

The #Taliban regime is parading it’s military equipment today on #Afghanistan ’s national broadcasting channel. Among the objects on proud display are suicide vests, which the narrator boasts are a key weapon in the country’s arsenal.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

I should say that I saw a lot of tents in the displaced persons camp saying “China Aid”. It’s the only visible foreign aid presence in the camp.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Some of my favourite photos from my time in Herat, Afghanistan earlier this month. It’s a very beautiful city.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

So many Afghan politicians are using the word 'inclusive' right now you'd think they all studied at Sarah Lawrence

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

#Afghanistan has the highest percentage of widows in the world. Many are the heads of their households. 85% of those households are unable to feed their families without drastic measures. 1/2 Such a powerful op-ed by @McgroartyME from @WFP_Afghanistan

Afghanistan is running out of food, but it doesn't have to | The National

An upcoming pledging conference is a rare chance to save millions of lives in the country

www.thenationalnews.com

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

When Gulbuddin Hekmatyar thinks you’re being too extreme and heavy handed, you really need to get a clue.

Najib Farhodi

@Najib_Farhodi

2 years

Hezb-e-Islami leader Hekmatyar has called on the IEA to reconsider its order to cover women faces. He also said in a Friday prayer sermon yesterday that education is a religious right for women and that the current government should take immediate action to reopen girls schools.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Let’s take stock of a few things that Taliban authorities have done in the past 72hrs since taking KBL: 1- Murdered a comedian 2- Murdered a judge 3- Announced no stealing, but lots of stealing 4- Shot protesters carrying republic flag 5- Blew up a monument to a minority leader

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

@Samyyaaa3 For context, this expulsion of Afghans will be almost five times that. Pakistan’s plan is to expel more than 1.7 million Afghans.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Zaid (right) is an Afghan soldier who was called to his post at 5AM to help process returnees. It is now 4pm. He doesn’t know what time he’ll finish today. “When this crowd behind me is clear.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Americans just FYI this is what people in Kabul had to deal with for 20 years with CIA aerostats hovering over their city collecting all their phone calls. National security arguments aside, it’s unnerving for anyone to go through.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

The US government has said a strange balloon floating in the sky over Montana is a surveillance device of Chinese origin. Read the full story:

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

I don’t understand why this drone strike story is being discussed like it’s some new revelation from the New York Times. I remember reading about the truth from @nabihbulos and his colleagues at LA Times basically right after it happened.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

You may have read in some very prominent news outlets today that the Taliban have banned contraceptives in Afghanistan. @alibomaye Ali Latifi and I spent some time today fact-checking and investigating. Not only did we find that contraceptives remain freely available (1/2)

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Sangar Paykar, 39, is an Afghan-born podcaster based in the Netherlands. He’s visiting Kabul for the first time in nearly two decades. “I wish Afghans would be more like the Dutch in many ways. We would be more successful and effective in dealing with our problems.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

This is Fahim Dashty, former journalist turned resistance fighter who became the Panjshir-based resistance Spox for the past 3 weeks. In that time, he’s been in constant contact w me and others. This is the last video he sent, a few days ago. Dashty was killed in battle yesterday

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

#Breaking : #Afghanistan rejects the US plan to transfer $3.5bn of Afghan reserves to a fund in Switzerland & disburse it thru for humanitarian purposes using a board of US/Swiss/independent trustees. IEA says it will impose consequences 1/3

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

I spent Saturday at the compound housing Afghan refugees in Abu Dhabi. As I stood in a waiting room, I noticed two boys leaning against the wall, and made small talk. To my shock, one of them, 13 yrs old, told me he had escaped from Kabul alone.

Afghan boy, 13, slipped past Taliban guards alone to reach UAE evacuation flight | The National

Evacuee Zabi, now safely in Abu Dhabi, tells 'The National' he is 'happy to be out' despite leaving family behind

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Plenty of people are trying to point out to me that most of the Afghan returnees so far returned “voluntarily”. This is only true insofar as they are “voluntarily” complying with an expulsion order. And today we’ve started to see the arrival of many who were physically forced.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

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Huda is a 14-year-old girl from #Kabul . A year ago, her world turned upside down when the #Taliban took control of #Afghanistan and forced her out of school. We spent a day in Kabul looking at the city through her eyes.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Everything about this screenshot of Dostum in the zoom meeting of the Afghan resistance is a caricature of him, from his username 'The Marshall Office' to the sunglasses indoors to the 1980s flag to the gaudy curtains to the 3 mismatched clocks on the wall to look 'professional'.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

I am back at the border crossing speaking with refugee case officers from an NGO I cannot name. They interviewed 60 Afghans this morning who were forcibly expelled by Pakistan despite having UNHCR asylum seeker docs, 2 of which I saw with my own eyes.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Today I spent some time with these officers guarding Shiite congregations in Murad Khani. At first I was denied filming permission but they lobbied on my behalf to their commander and permission was granted. <1 hour later, a bomber targeted another Shiite area in West Kabul.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

“You know what the most interesting thing is?” he says. “Nobody doubted me. I was just tweeting what the Taliban are already really thinking.” via @TheNationalNews

The real story behind the ‘fake chancellor’ of Kabul University | The National

University left red-faced after frustrated student launches fake Twitter account outlining supposed Taliban views on education

www.thenationalnews.com

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

This is Khushhal, 23. He’s one of a minority of officers patrolling PD8 in #Kabul who was a member of the Afghan National Police before the Taliban took power. “They said I could keep my job, as long as I grew my beard. I’m very fortunate, I get my pay cheques on time.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Sources have said that the last anti-Taliban resistance holed up in #Panjshir Valley are prepared to fight, but they are also trying to figure out a clear position from which to approach the #Taliban for a deal.

Panjshir: The last bastion of anti-Taliban resistance in Afghanistan | The National

No government – foreign or Afghan – has ever taken and held the rugged valley by force

www.thenationalnews.com

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

I find it a little strange that I’ve been getting a lot of hate and accusations of being a “Taliban apologist” from people who supposedly support Afghan women’s right to contraceptives, for simply reporting the good news that Afghan women still have a right to contraceptives.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Very moving scene from the Afghan town of Mar Koh, about 40km from the border, where locals have gathered to welcome Afghans expelled from Pakistan back to their country. Worth noting many of the children in these arriving vehicles have never set eyes on Afghanistan before today.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Probably not surprising, but Kabul has a Chinatown (ish). There is a 🇨🇳 shopping mall run by about 10 🇨🇳 staff. There are 2 🇨🇳 hotel/apartment buildings, & a restaurant. A couple hundred 🇨🇳 ppl live in the city. Also I went to an Afghan’s apartment, and the neighbour was Chinese.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

I spent yesterday in Herat near the Iran border seeing thousands of people sleeping in tents displaced by earthquakes. I spent today in Torkham near the Pakistan border seeing tens of thousands of people sleeping in tents displaced by a government. What Afghanistan is going

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

When I was in Kabul, the first thing probably about 80% of Talibs said to me was “Pashto or Persian?” And the ones who spoke to me in Pashto immediately changed to Persian when they saw I didn’t understand.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

The benefit of reporting in Jalalabad was being able to do my writing in the gorgeous Nimla Bagh, a 400-year-old Moghul garden. I learned about its colourful history from @EmpirePodUK

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

The photo is taken outside the Allsop Arms, near Baker Street station. The advert on the left side is for Suicide Squad 2, which was released in the UK on July 30. The advert on the right is for the McDonald's McSpicy, which was available in the UK between July 14 and August 24.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

A Kabul mystery thread: strictly no lighters or matches are allowed into the airport. But there is a smoking lounge. So out of curiosity I visited this smoking lounge. Everyone lights their cigarette using the lit cigarette of someone who got there before them. 1/2

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Arash, age ≈6. He was walking the street in Kabul counting his money. His family moved from Kunduz in June. “I’m a shoeshine. There’s no work in Kunduz, and my father is sick. I take home ($1.25) a day and give it to my parents. I want to be a doctor so I can help sick people.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

I interviewed this woman, her colleagues and local residents at Golayee Mahtani Qala checkpoint 4 hours ago. 1 hour ago, 500m away from where I took this photo, a bomb exploded. The checkpoint commander told us 1 officer is dead, civilian casualties as yet unconfirmed.

Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

This woman is a Shiite Hazara police officer, who joined the force 1 month before the Taliban took over last year. Today, she has been assigned to man this checkpoint at the entrance to Dashte Barchi. Security forces are on high alert after a bomb killed 8 Shiites yesterday.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

@aljwhite “I couldn’t in all conscience take the blame for something I did when there was an underling right there who could take the blame instead.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

I met Karzai once when I was 18. I introduced myself as an “Afghan-American” & he said no matter how many times I say it he wouldn’t hear the 2nd part. He’s a flawed man, but one of the few who looks around at a divided nation & only sees fellow Afghans

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Prominent politicians from the mainly Shia Hazara community of Afghanistan are loudly emphasising that this year’s observance Ashura under Taliban rule was the most peaceful and successful in 20 years. Today Jafar Mahdavi, founder of the Nation party, met Anas Haqqani

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

But the Taliban authorities told us explicitly that contraceptives are allowed as a matter of policy. The problem with reporting like the kind we had to disprove is that it may serve one narrative, but ultimately hurts afghan women. Our latest:

Afghan Taliban deny banning contraceptives | The National

Officials, clinics and pharmacies reject British media reports of ban on family planning products

www.thenationalnews.com

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

What’s sad is that I once believed this nonsense too. @alibomaye can attest that earlier this summer I texted him that I was scared to fly into KBL because I don’t speak Pashto, and he just laughed at me as if I was crazy. And he was completely right.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Related to this, my passport control officer leaving Kabul airport was a young woman. The security staff searching my bags, also women.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Khan Jan Alokozay, VP of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment, said "China has not invested a penny. Many companies came, talked to us, then disappeared." MEPA cites disagreements over Taliban sheltering Uyghurs as the reason.

Taliban Uygur Türklerini vermedi, Çin Afganistan'a yatırım yapmadı

"ABD'nin Afganistan'dan çekilmesinin ardından bölgede Çin'in etkinlik alanı inşa edeceğine dair yorumlar büyük ölçüde boşa çıktı."

www.mepanews.com

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Surreal energy in Kabul. Last Friday before Ashura. “Ya Hussein” signs everywhere. Security have put barricades and checkpoints around Murad Khani to protect Shiite congregations. Elsewhere in the city, protesters are marching through the streets shouting Death to America.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

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3 years

In early July, the Taliban was in the middle of capturing Badakhshan, and Afghan government officials in that province were evacuating out of Faizabad Airport

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

On July 14, the day the McSpicy rolled out in the UK, the Taliban captured the Chaman border crossing on the frontier with Pakistan, one of the main economic transit points for Afghan trade

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

We know that Hamdullah Mohib AND Sadat Naderi were both in London on July 23 meeting former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sherif, as this tweet from the Afghan National Security Council account at the time shows:

NSC Afghanistan

@NSCAfghan

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NSA @hmohib and State Minister for Peace Sayed Sadat Naderi called on Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in London to discuss matters of mutual interest.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

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2 years

Lt Gen Sami Sadat has told the BBC he is planning to restart war in Afghanistan after Eid to oust the Taliban. Below is an excerpt from an article by @Anand_Gopal_ in The New Yorker about Sami Sadat:

Afghanistan: Former army general vows new war against Taliban

Lt Gen Sami Sadat tells the BBC of planned operations but many Afghans are weary of more conflict.

www.bbc.com

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@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

The most beautiful restaurant in Kabul

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@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

These men are not stopping a woman from protesting the Taliban. They are following her lead.

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@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Afghanistan has the highest population of widows in the world. Many of them are the heads of their households. None of those are allowed to leave their homes without risk of harassment from the authorities.

Hizbullah Khan

@HizbkKhan

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Afghanistan's Kandahar—the Taliban are not allowing 39 years old war widow, Ghutai, to go home in the Taxi alone, & telling her "lonely travel of a woman is moral corruption." Ghutai lost his husband 12 years ago; she dosn't hv a son & any other male relative to travel with her.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

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4 years

sometimes i want to quote famous afghan love songs to my british partner, but then i translate them and they're not very romantic. actually, slightly creepy: "you have black eyes / I want to sacrifice myself to you / where is your house? / I want to be a guest there"

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2 years

There’s only one rule when reporting on Afghanistan. When you report something, just ask yourself if it’s true. Because if it’s not, it hurts real people who are still there having to bear the burden of daily life in a country that’s been through hell.

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Just to be clear, these UNHCR docs mean they were eligible to apply for asylum in other countries (e.g. western countries). But before their cases could be processed they were arrested and expelled back to Afghanistan.

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@SulaimanHakemy

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Yesterday, these case workers say they interviewed 64 Afghans who were forcibly expelled despite having valid Pakistan residency cards, which they claim were torn up by Pakistani officers. The case workers say they saw photos of the cards on the returnees’ mobiles.

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Who the first person to light their cigarette was and how they managed it we may never know. It is almost as if there is just a continuous chain of cigarettes being lit off of each other that spans back to when the airport was first built. Like an Olympic torch rally. 2/2

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3 years

If I could buy two things for every Afghan in the West, it would be a 23&me DNA test and tuition for a degree in linguistics. Because I had no idea until recently how many of them (especially the young ones) are racial and linguistic supremacists.

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Abdul, 29, is an NGO worker in Kabul. “At first they used to stop me at checkpoints and tell me not to play music in the car. Now they usually compliment me on how nice my speakers are.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

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3 years

By July 30, the day Suicide Squad 2 premiered in the UK, the Taliban had surrounded Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar, and Kandahar's airport was under sustained rocket attack

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

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I met so many Afghans this week with ACC cards who were expelled. And here is the awful thing about the ACC - on the back it says in English it’s only valid until the government decides it’s not anymore. Afghans were issued these cards and made to believe they meant something.

UNHCR Pakistan

@UNHCRPakistan

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📢Important information for @Refugees POR and ACC cardholders are exempted from the current repatriation plan. UNHCR is appealing to the authorities to ensure they are not subject to harassment.

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2 years

I don’t know if @KhalidPayenda was ever corrupt, and I wouldn’t assume he was without evidence. But I do know now that the @WSJ did not bother to give a fair representation of his explanation of his finances, which makes me worry about what else they wanted to leave out.

Khalid Payenda

@KhalidPayenda

2 years

In response to @WSJ article published earlier, I’ve written to the Bureau Chief of WSJ (attached below) & demanded a correction but await a response as the article continues to mislead readers to assume that properties I own come from illegal means while employed by Afghan govt

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

For now, a source says, the Panjshiris have one message for the Taliban: “Form an inclusive government. In the meantime, do not try to enter the Valley.”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

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This is wild. A Swedish member of the EU delegation to Afghanistan has been held prisoner in Iran for the past 500 days, the news being kept secret until now. Link below:

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

If I could compress Kabul’s soundscape this week into a 10-second clip, it would be dogs barking, looping recordings advertising the sale of figs, an explosion, a scream, a jet engine, sirens, children begging, traffic cops admonishing, and birds chirping.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

A US mission that began with good intentions, but lacked the forethought, local knowledge & focus needed to fulfil its aims...that went on far too long & ultimately shook Afghans' image of America. I'm talking, of course, abt Karen Decker's tweets on black history & Afghanistan.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

1 year

I spoke to Ali Latifi an hour ago briefly on the phone. He remains in police custody but he told me he is okay.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

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I’m going to die in Kabul because everyone is watching cricket on their phones instead of the road in front of them.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Senior police official @zala_zazai is asking the Taliban government for clarification on the status of her and her fellow female police officers, and whether the amnesty applies to them. "Can we get back to work?"

Zala Zazai

@zala_zazai

3 years

مصونیت زنان پولیس در زمان طالبان چی خواهد شد؟ آیا می‌توانیم دوباره برگردیم به کار خود؟

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

You know what I hope Taliban delegations get to travel everywhere. I hope their host countries take them on tours of schools, universities, maternity hospitals, science labs, gyms, public parks, art galleries, museums, etc etc. I hope they talk to a lot of people and learn a lot.

AFP News Agency

@AFP

3 years

#UPDATE A Taliban delegation was in Geneva on Tuesday for a week of NGO-hosted talks on humanitarian access and human rights, as the new rulers of the crisis-besieged Afghanistan expand their international engagement Read more:

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

1 year

This funerary jar is almost 5,000 years old. It was dug up in modern-day southern Afghanistan. Today, you can see it at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

1 year

I’ve spent the past year telling people they should visit Afghanistan or talk to people who have visited before fully forming their opinion. This guy’s post-visit take has me seriously reconsidering that advice.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

@FatmaFaizi No, thank you. A lot of the data above comes from your work on the NYTimes Afghan War Casualty Report for the past several years. The world won’t forget thanks to your hard efforts.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

This is a very reasonable point. Why is the NYT revealing facts in a 7-month investigation and publishing it as an Opinion video?

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

Honestly, Lebanese politics makes the Taliban look like the Swiss government.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

1 year

I recently came back from a short trip in Uzbekistan (Samarkand and Bukhara) and the photos speak for themselves.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

4 developments on Tajikistan and the anti-Taliban resistance: 1- two days ago, I spoke to @nozjon , a reporter in TJ, who was told by the ruling party that Dushanbe will shut down any embassies supporting the Taliban 2- Ahmad Zia Massoud has flown into Panjshir from TJ (Contd)

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

11 months

Plenty of people are trying to point out to me that most of the Afghan returnees so far returned “voluntarily”. This is only true insofar as they are “voluntarily” complying with an expulsion order. And today we’ve started to see the arrival of many who were physically forced.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

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Brown people problems: a few months ago my family all flew into the US to celebrate my grandma’s 90th birthday. This week my mum found out my grandma is actually 86, and the US officer just put a random year on her entry documents when she immigrated in the 70s.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

2 years

“Taliban official affirms group’s belief in life on Mars”

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

Saleh, who is thought to be with them, declared himself President today, invoking the constitution. This may be an attempt to strengthen his position before any negotiation, should the Taliban choose to have one.

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Sulaiman Hakemy

@SulaimanHakemy

3 years

The Taliban are not under any pressure at all right now to cut a deal with the Panjshiris. They can ignore them indefinitely. While the Taliban cannot take the Valley, the Panjshiris can’t exactly leave. Unless they can rally more support from home and abroad.

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