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Afghans Cut Off From World As Taliban Imposes Blackout

September 30, 2025 7:17 am

For millions of Afghans, the digital lifeline that tied them to the outside world went dark overnight. Phones fell silent, screens froze, and families scattered across continents suddenly found themselves unable to reach one another.

The sweeping internet blackout, reported late Monday, is being described as the most extensive communication shutdown since the Taliban seized power in 2021. It has left a nation of 43 million in near-total isolation, deepening fears that Afghanistan is sliding back into the iron restrictions of the group’s previous rule.

For Afghans abroad, the rupture has been devastating. “From yesterday there is no communication with …

Japanese Doctor Who Helped Afghans For Decades Killed

December 4, 2019 2:35 pm

A Japanese doctor whose long career was dedicated to helping some of Afghanistan’s poorest people was among six people killed Wednesday in an attack in the east of the country, officials said.

The armed assault in Jalalabad city, the capital of Nangarhar province, was the second deadly incident involving aid workers in recent days and prompted appalled reaction in Afghanistan and internationally.

Tetsu Nakamura, 73, was the head of Peace Japan Medical Services — known as Peshawar Kai in Japanese — and had been working in the region since the 1980s, when he began treating patients with leprosy in Peshawar …