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IEA Supreme Leader leads Council of Ministers meeting for the first time
Zabiullah Mujahid, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said Wednesday the IEA’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada led a Council of Ministers meeting for the first time this week.
“Your responsibilities are very heavy and in the case of good service, they are the source of success in this world and the hereafter,” Mujahid quoted Akhundzada as saying.
He added that the current Islamic system was created as a result of the unprecedented sacrifices of the Afghan mujahid people, “thus the implementation of Sharia law and service to the people is called the primary duty of the officials. The rights of about 40 million people of Afghanistan are related to each ministry. So, if any official is negligent, the rights of 40 million people will be lost.”
Akhundzada said the IEA must value and serve its people, because the people have been very loyal to the IEA.
“Be careful not to be disloyal, look at the whole nation, because you are not the officials of a district or a province; rather, you are responsible for the whole of Afghanistan,” said Akhundzada.
He went on to say that the IEA should try to leave behind good principles, good laws and good morals for the next generation.
He added, officials must try to call people to religion and Islamic principles through encouragement, persuasion and good morals instead of force.
He advised them to learn from the actions of people in the past. “The habits of the scholarly and Jihadi period should not be forgotten or left behind. Don’t be happy if the responsibility is given to you, and don’t be sad if it is taken away from you,” Akhundzada added.
After Akhundzada’s speech, the deputy minister of economy Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and the acting minister of commerce and industry Nooruddin Azizi gave reports on their recent trips to Iran and Pakistan respectively, and discussed the selection of different routes for the country’s exports, imports, and transit.
Also, the necessary plans were made in connection with the preparation and timely delivery of food and fuel for the coming winter.
Later, the President of Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), Hidayatullah Badri, presented information about the preservation of the value of the afghani (currency) and related topics, and on the strengthening of the monetary policy of the Islamic Emirate. Necessary decisions were taken regarding better transparency.
The commission headed by the deputy prime minister Abdul Salaam Hanafi, reported on the issue of migrants, and on returning refugees. Hanafi detailed the measures, which were directed by the supreme leader, in place to assist these refugees.
Officials also discussed the current situation in the country, and political activities regarding the development of relations with neighboring and other countries. Solutions to existing problems were sought and the need for constructive policies came under the spotlight.
Necessary decisions were taken regarding the improvement of academic capacity in various (religious and modern) areas of education and that of problems faced by teachers and students.
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Japan allocates nearly $20 million in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan
The Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan announced on Friday that the country has allocated $19.5 million in humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.
In a statement, the Japanese Embassy said it hopes the aid will help bring positive change to the lives of vulnerable Afghans.
According to the statement, the assistance will cover the basic humanitarian needs of vulnerable communities in Afghanistan.
The embassy added that the aid will be delivered through United Nations agencies, international organizations, and Japanese non-governmental organizations operating in Afghanistan.
Japan’s total assistance to Afghanistan since August 2021 has reached more than $549 million.
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Afghan border forces prevent illegal entry of hundreds into Iran
Security forces at the Islam Qala border in Herat province prevented hundreds of young Afghans from illegally entering Iran.
Officials from the 207 Al-Farooq Army Corps said that around 530 people attempted over the past two days to illegally enter Iranian territory through areas of Kohsan district in Herat, but border forces detained them and transferred them back to their original areas.
Meanwhile, officials in the local administration of Herat said that due to severe cold along the illegal migration route to Iran, three Afghan migrants have lost their lives in the Kohsan district of the province, and a shepherd has also died there for the same reason.
Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, spokesperson for the Herat governor’s office, said that some statistics and images shared on social media regarding the incident are not reliable.
According to him, further investigations are underway to determine whether any individuals have died on the other side of the border.
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US pauses green card lottery program after Brown University shooting
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program, the Associated Press reported.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.
Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, according to an affidavit from a Providence police detective. In 2017, he was issued a diversity immigrant visa and months later obtained legal permanent residence status, according to the affidavit. It was not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017.
The diversity visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the U.S., many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to invite legal challenges.
Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. After winning, they must undergo vetting to win admission to the United States. Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots.
Lottery winners are invited to apply for a green card. They are interviewed at consulates and subject to the same requirements and vetting as other green-card applicants.
Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem’s announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals. After an Afghan man was identified as the gunman in a fatal attack on National Guard members in November, Trump’s administration imposed sweeping rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other counties.
While pursuing mass deportation, Trump has sought to limit or eliminate avenues to legal immigration. He has not been deterred if they are enshrined in law, like the diversity visa lottery, or the Constitution, as with a right to citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil. The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear his challenge to birthright citizenship.
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