Afghanistan LIVE Updates: Al-Qaeda Regrouping in Taliban-controlled Nation; Indian-origin Man Abducted in Vehicle Used by Insurgents

LIVE Updates: us Central intelligence (CIA) said that they’re noticing early signs that Al Qaeda could also be regrouping in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. consistent with the Deputy Director of the us Central intelligence David Cohen, intelligence reports indicate “some potential motion of Al Qaeda [returning] to Afghanistan,” reported Intelnews.org. An Indian-origin businessman dealing in Afghanistan’s medicine market, named Bansri Lal was kidnapped by unknown miscreants. Matter thus far seems to be an area crime-related issue and India is in-tuned with stakeholders within the matter and therefore the Taliban is working on it. Lal lived in Afghanistan and wasn’t a part of those that wanted to be evacuated back to India.

The Taliban government’s acting army chief of staff, Qari Fasihuddin said they’re working to make a ‘regular’ and ‘strong’ army, Tolo News reported. “Our dear country should have a daily and powerful army to simply defend and protect our country,” he said. The soldiers and officers of the previous government also will be recruited for the new army, he told Tolo News. The Taliban has repeatedly said that former government army personnel are going to be called back to their duties. during a recent move, the Taliban said they’re going to call back the previous government police to take care of Kabul security along side Taliban forces.

10:00 AM: Impoverished Afghans living during a long-abandoned military compound within the southern city of Kandahar say they’re devastated by the Taliban order to expel them from their homes. Several hundred staged a rally against the order, saying they need nowhere else to travel which that they had years ago paid former Afghan soldiers under the table for the land.

9:00 AM: Once, Kabul’s main prison was crowded with thousands of Taliban captured and arrested by the govt . On Monday, a Taliban commander strolled through its empty halls and cell blocks, showing his friends where he had once been imprisoned. it had been a symbol of the sudden and startling new order in Afghanistan after the militant group swept into the capital nearly a month ago and threw out the crumbling, U.S.-backed government it had fought for 20 years.

8:40 AM: Impoverished Afghans living during a long-abandoned military compound within the southern city of Kandahar say they’re devastated by the Taliban order to expel them from their homes. Several hundred staged a rally against the order, saying they need nowhere else to travel which that they had years ago paid former Afghan soldiers under the table for the land.

7:45 AM: Afghanistan’s financial institution said that the Taliban had seized quite $12 million in cash and gold from the homes of former officialdom , as a financial crunch threatens the Islamists’ rule one month after they took back power. Most government employees have yet to return to figure and in many cases salaries had already not been purchased months leaving millions scrambling to form ends meet.