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Kabul (Afghanistan), Oct 7 (EFE / EPA) .- The Taliban on Tuesday resumed issuing passports under the name of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, despite the fact that after the seizure of power on August 15, the fundamentalist party refers to to the Asian country as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.FOOTAGE OF AFGHANS WAITING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF THEIR PASSPORT IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
Tehran (Iran), Oct 1 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marina Villén) They fled Afghanistan for fear of the Taliban and crossed illegally into Iran. They all have in common a traumatic displacement, a current situation of helplessness and the difficult goal of rebuilding their lives in a country overwhelmed by the large number of refugees.FOOTAGE OF AFGHAN FAMILIES THAT RECENTLY ARRIVED IN IRAN FLEEING FROM THE TALIBANS.SOUNDBITES FROM AZIZE DOR MOHAMAD AND NUR MOHAMAD AHMADÍ (MOTHERS OF THE TWO LEADING FAMILIES OF THE HISTORY).TRANSLATIONS (BY ORDER OF APPEARANCE):1: Azize dor Mohamad"We came without a passport, illegally, smuggled. We were on the road for 21 days, we were hungry and thirsty, for two whole days we had neither water nor bread."2: Nur Mohamad Ahmadi:"We were afraid. It was said that the Taliban come and kidnap the girls to marry them and that they take the boys to fight in the war."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that the Taliban renewed promises to let Afghans leave freely amid concern over blocked chartered flights. The Taliban told the United States that "they will let people with travel documents freely depart," Blinken told a news conference in Qatar. SOUNDBITE
Chaman, Aug 27 (EFE/EPA).- The United Nations refugee agency Friday urged Pakistan to open its borders for refugees fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan.“We call upon the government to open its border for vulnerable Afghans whose life is at risk in Afghanistan,” the UNHCR spokesperson Qaiser Khan Afridi told EFE.Afridi said that the Pakistan government was not allowing Afghans to enter the country without a visa. (Camera: STRINGER).SHOT LIST: AFGHAN PEOPLE WAIT TO CROSS THE BORDER AT CHAMAN BORDER POINT, IN PAKISTAN.
The Taliban have vowed "safe passage for Americans, for third country nationals, and Afghans at risk," once the the pullout deadline of August 31st has passed, says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a press briefing in Washington, DC. SOUNDBITE
Afghans waited in the open near Kabul's airport on Friday as thousands of people try to flee Afghanistan's capital, as an intelligence document for the UN warned that the Taliban are going house-to-house searching for opponents and their families. IMAGES
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