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Jan 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Expelling rumours about Transfer of Humanitarian Aid Packages to #Afghanistan being Suspended as claimed by Mehrabi: confirmed with sources that no such decision has been taken by the #UN. The UN continues to operate despite the recent bans 1/

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The cash payments were never coming in on a strict schedule and would always face delays. It is unclear whether this current delay is a tactic to scare the #Taliban or just a standard procedural delay. Important to not promote rumours unless officially stated by the #UN 2/
Money is a construct which functions on trust and so does the economy by extension. Even innocent mistakes or rumours could hurt the market. Be mindful of what you spread. 3/
#UNAMA published information regarding the cash shipments today without any mention of a suspension. This fact sheet does help to expel all the other disinformation being spread regarding the fund but would’ve been helpful to clearly reject the suspension. unama.unmissions.org/cash-shipments…

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Jan 8
Appealing to the #Taliban I reminded them how even Mullah Omar did not ban women from working for NGO run bakeries. He didn’t ban them from medical education. How do they expect NGOs to work without women staff? Will they allow men to access their women? 1/
Even if there were women who were not observing the dress code, why punish everyone for the supposed crime of a few? Even if you open schools now, your painting them as immoral places will push parents to not send their daughters. 2/
Do not promote the false narrative that the world was not going to accept Islamic restrictions you imposed. You segregated university classes the first day you came to power and we accepted it since we accepted that things would change. 3/
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Dec 16, 2022
This great op-Ed reminded me of the story of the #ISK director of recruitment being caught in a night raid. He used to work in a directorate of agriculture in Nangrahar during republic days and had hosted me at his office a few time. I got to know that he had been detained 1/
A few months later I saw him walking around in my #Kabul office. Awkward about how to bring it up, over tea I hinted at the rumour of him being picked up in links with ISK and he told me the story. Muslimyar (Head of Senate) had sent someone to him to lease them gov arid land 2/
When he refused to break the law and give out the land, the person told him that he would regret it. The same night, a helicopter descended outside his house and the zero units put a bag over his head and flew him to Kabul 3/
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Jun 11, 2022
Bitter Facts:
- #Ahmed Shah #Massoud gave safe passage to #USSR invading troops into #Afghanistan in exchange for money.
- #ASM had a major role in the bombing of #Kabul during civil war.
- ASM used #opium to fund his fight against #Taliban, dubbed by US gov as druglord
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- #ASM kept asking #CIA for weapons and endorsement of his resistance and then settled for being paid for spying on Bin Laden.

No, these facts can’t be countered by listing what Hekmatyar did. Everyone seems to remember that. This is to counter selective readings of history.
2/
I refuse to engage in these arguments most of the time because it generates more hate than solve much but it’s important to not be unjust to history. You don’t see me cursing or cussing at him. He was an imperfect figure as are most that #Afghanistan has had.
3/
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Oct 24, 2021
In an alleged audio recording of the latest gathering of suicide bombers' families held at the #Intercontinental Hotel, Sirajuddin #Haqqani narrates two stories. First, the story of a father who came to Sirajuddin Haqqani's suicide training camp pleading with him to return his
son back. The father argues that the son is young and impressionable, he states that the son left without his father's permission. Sirajuddin then sends for the boy and asks that he be told that Haqqani wants to speak to him.
When the boy enters the room and lays his eyes on his father, he starts wailing and begs not to be sent home. When the father eventually takes the boy home, he returns in a few days asking Sirajuddin to take back the boy.
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Aug 21, 2021
Here is what #AshrafGhani did to #Afghanistan. 1) he spent years centralising the government and handing over offices to diaspora from the west. Stripping the ministries of work and their memory. All the heads have fled the country and now it’ll take years to restart [1/4]
2) He had months to realise he was losing the war and discuss a democratic transfer of power to a third body but he delayed it till the eleventh hour only to flee. Now the #Taliban do not have any formal body to talk to. [2/4]
3) He caused the disintegration of the Afghan Defence Forces. This is will be the darkest of his legacies. An institution that had trillions of dollars invested into it is now no more. [3/4]
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Aug 16, 2021
I travelled within the city of #Kabul today. Here is what I observed:
1) The #Taliban are on constant patrol with humvees and rangers. Armed to the teeth.
2) They are conducting traffic and guarding important buildings. [1/5]
3) Saw close to no women on the roads and all shops were shuttered. What was interesting was that there were no large or armoured vehicles on the road either.
4) The Taliban were courteous and would greet you every time you pass but no checking. [2/5]
5) Asked a Taliban commander if it was okay for me to interview him so he can help disseminate some calm among the population. He said he had to seek permission, on the call he just asked them if he could or could not and when the answer was no, he politely declined. [3/5]
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