Afghanistan crisis live updates: Afghan police return to work alongside Taliban at airport
Afghan musicians flee Kabul, fearing for their lives and dire future for art under Taliban rule
As the Taliban tighten its grip on power in Afghanistan, patrons of the popular Afghan music in Pakistan are shutting their offices with artistes in Kabul being forced to flee into hiding, resulting in cancellation of music programmes and huge losses for the industry.Female Afghan boxer forced to leave Afghanistan amid Taliban death threats
In order to continue her passion for sports, female Afghan lightweight boxing champion Seema Rezai was forced to leave Afghanistan after the Taliban issued death threats to her. The member of the national female boxing team Rezai told Sputnik that she decided to leave the homeland alone, without her family, as she wanted to continue her boxing training.
Officials say they want to integrate the opposing forces, but have not spelled out how this will happen -- or how they will sustain a security apparatus made up of around 600,000 people.
The Taliban say they have granted a general amnesty to everyone who worked for the former government -- including the army, police and other security branches.
