RASC News Agency: The United Nations Security Council has announced that it will hold a meeting on Afghanistan on Wednesday, September 18. The session will feature Rose-Lynn Tunbyeva, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Sima Bahous, Director of UN Women, and a representative from civil society. While the Security Council has not provided additional details about the meeting, it has indicated that discussions on Afghanistan will follow.
Since the Taliban’s return to power, they have imposed severe restrictions on citizens’ rights and freedoms, particularly targeting Afghanistani women. Their new law, the “Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law,” even prohibits women from speaking loudly in public spaces where men are present.
Meanwhile, reports from British and Indian media, including “Mint,” suggest that the Taliban have not severed their ties with Al-Qaeda and other regional “terrorist” organizations. Hamza bin Laden, son of the former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and son-in-law of the Taliban’s former leader Mullah Omar, is reportedly leading Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He is operating alongside his brother Abdullah bin Laden under Taliban rule.
The report further claims that Hamza bin Laden, previously thought to have been killed in a CIA operation in Ghazni province, is now allegedly planning an attack similar to September 11 against the West. This development follows the recent U.S. House of Representatives resolution declaring the Taliban a “terrorist organization” and calling for global support, including from the U.S. government, for the Vienna process involving resistance groups and other anti-Taliban factions.
