It has been one of their main resources for years, now the internet is becoming “uncomfortable” for the Taliban. Multiple sources in Kabul report that the connection is blown in different neighborhoods of the Afghan capital. In recent days there have been numerous protests in various cities: women took to the streets in Kabul to claim their rights, and demonstrations against external interference by Pakistan. Journalists following the protests were beaten, and the Islamist group said enough: no internet. It is speculated that Afghan intelligence ordered the stop, especially in areas with a non-Pashtun majority population, fearing the circulation of protest messages through social media. The suspension should remain in effect until 2 pm in the afternoon.
The Taliban in Biden: our militiamen removed from the terrorist list
The Taliban have meanwhile called on the Biden administration to remove the names of their militiamen from the “black list” of terrorists of the United Nations and the United States. Al-Jazeera reports it on Twitter. “The position of the United States does not serve the interests of Washington or Afghanistan,” the Taliban would have warned. Jen Psaki, spokesman for Joe Biden, replied, arguing that “no one on the presidential staff considers the Taliban members of the international community respectable.”
200 Americans and other foreign nationals allowed to leave the country
Meanwhile, the new Afghan government has agreed that 200 Americans and other foreign nationals can leave the country aboard a charter that should take off this afternoon from Kabul’s Karzai airport. This would be one of the first civilian flights to leave the country after the military evacuations of recent days and the retreat of the NATO contingent. It is not clear whether those who will be able to leave are among those blocked for days in Mazar-i-Sharif, 300 kilometers north of Kabul, on charter flights that have been prevented from taking off. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday lobbied for the situation to unblock and the planes to be allowed to leave