Maternity ward attack left at least 24 dead, including 16 mothers
The maternity ward was the last place Afghans thought would become the scene of the country’s latest wave of militant violence
Mohsin Dawar, a member of the Pakistan’s National Assembly and a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), accused ‘state-sponsored militants’ to be behind the attack
After a recent gunman attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul, many Sikh and Hindu activists appealed for international assistance to help relocate them to outside of Afghanistan
Afghan government has promised further security measures but activists want stronger action
Earlier this month, the Taliban said they were willing to temporarily suspend fighting in the areas they control only if they were hit by the coronavirus
Spokesperson says Taliban 'will not fight in that particular area so that health workers deliver assistance to that area'
The country is already struggling with ongoing violence, political instability, and now coronavirus fears
According to Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, over 150,000 Afghan refugees have returned from Iran since late February
Iran, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Middle East, reported the first case in the country February 19 in the shrine city of Qom, nearly 140 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran
