This Sunday (31), a magnitude 6 earthquake on the Richter scale killed more than 800 people and left more than 2,000 wounds in Nangarhar and Kunar, provinces in eastern Afghanistan.
The earthquake was the third most fatal in the country since the return of the Taliban to power, in August 2021 – in 2023, another earthquake in Herat province left 1,480 dead; In 2022, a earthquake killed 1,163 people in Paktika, Paktia, Khost and Nangarhar and neighboring Pakistan – and comes to bring more problems to a country that already suffers from other factors.
The delayed view of Islamic fundamentalists, coupled with the sanctions of the European Union and the United States, who have also blocked billions of dollars from Afghanistan in assets since 2021, has left the Afghan economy in shames.
According to World Bank data, the Afghanistan GDP, which was $ 19.96 billion in 2020 (year before the US disastrous and around Taliban), was only US $ 17.15 billion in 2023, last year with consolidated data available. To get an idea of the retraction, this is a level lower than the Afghan GDP of 2011, which was $ 17.81 billion.
The Talibans also brought a lot of delay in the area of Human Rights, when they resumed the rules they imposed during their first government, between 1996 and 2001, especially the repression of women.
Girls were prohibited from studying beyond the sixth year, and women have been prevented from attending and teaching at universities and undergoing work restrictions elsewhere. A UN report released in August pointed out that most working women are forced to accept poorly paid and unstable jobs in the informal economy.
With these difficulties added to previous decades of repression and conflict, many Afghan decide to leave the country.
An August report from Think Tank Tank on Foreign Relations (CFR) stressed that today the Afghans represent the third largest displaced population in the world, with 6.4 million living as refugees.
To complicate, Taliban’s return increased the threat of terrorism. Although Taliban leaders claimed that “Afghanistan soil will not be used [para planejar ações] Against the safety of no other country, ”the fundamentalist regime continues to keep tights narrow with al-Qaeda.
“Analysts fear that the Taliban can provide secure refuge to the group and allow him to throw international terrorist attacks from Afghan soil,” said the CFR.
Internally, the great threat is the Islamic State-Khorasan, a faction of the Terrorist and Taliban enemy group, which has performed large attacks since August 2021.
The NGO of international crisis group stated in a recent report that although the number of EI attacks in Afghanistan fell by 2025, the risks remain.
“The group seems to be expanding its presence in Baluchistan [região que abrange partes dos territórios do Paquistão, do Irã e do Afeganistão]as highlighted in a recent advertising video. In June, Taliban forces carried out an operation at a Cabul installation used to manufacture suicide explosives and vests, ”he warned.
