I’ve been curious lately about Afghanistan. It’s been awhile now since Taliban took complete control of the country. For anyone knowlegable, is some kind of resistance brewing in there, socialist or otherwise?

  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    My mother has a friend with relatives in Afghanistan. Her friend has not said much on the topic for a while but one thing of note was that her relatives praised the Taliban for dealing with some of the famine conditions present during the US occupation.

    Something about how the new government has stopped forcing fertile land to be used to grow opium and actually grow food. I’ve seen other brief reports that confirmed this over a year ago or more which is when we last asked about her relatives.

    Otherwise I can’t say much unfortunately.

    I can only hope that Iran is able to influence the new government into reversing a lot of their backward anti-woman stances on education. Afghanistan borders a nation with one of the most successful female literacy campaigns of the last 50 years. It’s a shame that the state of affairs is the way it is considering how much could be learned by just studying the programs just over the border.

    • MissGibraltar59@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      4 days ago

      Very interesting, thank you. I saw some strange articles about how Afghan’s courts legalized slavery, but they all come from the western outlets and I obviously don’t trust a single word they say. Trying to get all the info I can independently.