This week’s Gandhara Briefing brings you insights on the efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghans, growing self-censorship in Afghanistan, and the Taliban’s renewed push to separate men and women.
The Taliban vowed to adhere to human rights standards when it seized power in mid-August 2021. But examples of blatant rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and torture, continue to emerge.
Four Afghan brothers have hauled their family’s carpet loom out of storage in the desperate hope of earning a living as the nation’s economy teeters on the edge of ruin. The Haidari brothers now spend their days sitting abreast on a squat bench – as generations of the family did before them – weaving the complex rugs for which Afghanistan is famed.
Four Afghan brothers have hauled their family's carpet loom out of storage in the desperate hope of earning a living as the nation's economy teeters on the edge of ruin.