2024 in Afghanistan
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Events in the year 2024 in Afghanistan.
Incumbents[edit]
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Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada | 15 August 2021 – present | |||
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Acting Prime Minister | Hasan Akhund | 7 September 2021 – present | |||
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Chief Justice | Abdul Hakim Haqqani | 15 August 2021 – present | |||
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Deputy Leader |
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15 August 2021 – present | |||
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Acting Deputy Prime Minister |
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7 September 2021 – present |
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Events[edit]
Ongoing[edit]
Afghan conflict; Islamic State–Taliban conflict; Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
January[edit]
- January 4 – A spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry of the Taliban announces the arrest of an undetermined number of women for wearing "bad hijab", in the first known crackdown on dress code since their return to power in August 2021.[1]
- January 20 – A chartered Dassault Falcon 10 aircraft flying from Thailand to Russia crashes in Kuf Ab District, Badakhshan Province, killing two of the six people on board.[2][3]
- January 29 – Ten collisions occur on the main highway linking Kabul and Nangarhar Province, killing 17 people and wounding ten more. Separately, fifteen people are killed during four collisions in Laghman Province, near the end of the same highway.[4]
February[edit]
- February 19 – A landslide in Nuristan Province buries the village of Nakre in the Tatin Valley and leaves at least 25 people dead.[5]
March[edit]
- March 17 – A bus traveling from Herat to Kabul collides with a motorcycle before slamming into an oil tanker along the Kandahar–Herat Highway in Grishk District, Helmand Province, killing 21 people and injuring 28.[6]
- March 18 – Five women and three children are killed during two Pakistani airstrikes in Khost and Paktika provinces following accusations that attacks in Pakistan were masterminded in Afghanistan, which the Taliban deny. In response, the Taliban opens fire on Pakistani troops at the border.[7]
- March 21 – A suicide bombing inside a bank in Kandahar kills 21 people and injures 50 others. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.[8]
- March 31 – Nine children are killed after a landmine they discovered explodes while playing with it in Giro District, Ghazni Province.[9]
Sports[edit]
- January – Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24[10]
- 25 December 2023 – 2 January 2024: Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2023–24[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Taliban arrest women for 'bad hijab' in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power". AP News. 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ "Russian flight carrying six disappears over Afghanistan, crash reported". Reuters. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "A Russian private jet carrying 6 people is believed to have crashed in Afghanistan, officials say". Associated Press. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "33 people have been killed in separate traffic crashes in eastern Afghanistan". AP News. 2024-01-28. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "Afghanistan landslide leaves 25 dead". DW. 2024-02-19. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "At least 21 dead after bus collides with tanker in southern Afghanistan". Al Jazeera. March 17, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "Taliban Says Several Killed In Pakistani Strikes Inside Afghanistan". RFE/RL. March 18, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^ "Afghanistan: IS claims responsibility for suicide bomb at Kandahar bank". BBC. March 22, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9". Associated Press. April 1, 2024. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "BCCI announces fixtures for International Home Season 2023-24". www.bcci.tv. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- ^ "AfghanAtalan to Tour UAE for a three-match T20I Series late this month". cricket.af. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
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