2024 in Afghanistan

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2024
in
Afghanistan

Decades:
See also:Other events of 2024
List of years in Afghanistan

Events in the year 2024 in Afghanistan.

Incumbents[edit]

Photo Post Name Dates
Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada 15 August 2021 – present (2021-08-15 – present)
Acting Prime Minister Hasan Akhund 7 September 2021 – present (2021-09-07 – present)
Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani 15 August 2021 – present (2021-08-15 – present)
Haqqani
Yaqoob
Baradar
Deputy Leader 15 August 2021 – present (2021-08-15 – present)
Baradar
Hanafi
Kabir
Acting Deputy Prime Minister 7 September 2021 – present (2021-09-07 – present)

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 vehicles crash on the main highway linking Kabul and the eastern 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]

Sports[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Russian flight carrying six disappears over Afghanistan, crash reported". Reuters. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "33 people have been killed in separate traffic crashes in eastern Afghanistan". AP News. 2024-01-28. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  5. ^ "BCCI announces fixtures for International Home Season 2023-24". www.bcci.tv. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  6. ^ "AfghanAtalan to Tour UAE for a three-match T20I Series late this month". cricket.af. Retrieved 2023-12-12.