{"id":1020815,"date":"2021-11-16T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020815"},"modified":"2021-11-16T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T00:29:11","slug":"so-many-people-want-to-leave-afghanistan-that-the-kabul-passport-system-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/so-many-people-want-to-leave-afghanistan-that-the-kabul-passport-system-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many People Want to Leave Afghanistan That the Kabul Passport System Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fso-many-people-want-to-leave-afghanistan-that-the-kabul-passport-system-broke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Taliban-2-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Taliban-run passport office in Kabul shut down on Tuesday, ostensibly because its biometric equipment and computer systems could not handle the enormous demand for travel documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Director Alam Gul Haqqani <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/kabul-passport-office-suspends-work-demand-crashes-system-2021-11-16\/\"><span>estimated<\/span><\/a><span> 15,000 to 20,000 people were camped outside the passport office, a crowd at least five times as big as the office could handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cTo stop people suffering this and to avoid disturbance, we have decided to stop the activities of the passport department for a few days,\u201d Haqqani said, promising operations would resume soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.84375\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Issuing passports in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kabul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kabul<\/a> has been stopped. Thousands people returned back home hopelessly on d Tuesday morning. Issuing passport was d only service <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taliban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taliban<\/a> were delivering 2 people after they took over. There is no public service from the so called government in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KO94tDq6Lj\">pic.twitter.com\/KO94tDq6Lj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kabir Haqmal (@Haqmal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Haqmal\/status\/1460456379081056258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Haqqani said in late October that every Afghan citizen was entitled to receive a passport under the Taliban government. He envisioned his office gearing up to issue 5,000 to 6,000 passports a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Hundreds of people <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/10\/06\/afghanistan-taliban-passport-refugee\/\"><span>lined up<\/span><\/a><span> outside the office days before it was open for business, prompting Taliban thugs to beat them away from the door. The Taliban soon began strongly hinting that educated and highly skilled people should remain in Afghanistan to \u201cplay their part in rebuilding\u201d the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since the Taliban\u2019s \u201cIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan\u201d is not recognized by any other nation at present, passports are still using the name of the overthrown U.S.-supported government, the \u201cIslamic Republic of Afghanistan.\u201d Even under that identity, Afghanistan\u2019s passports provide access to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henleyglobal.com\/passport-index\/ranking\"><span>fewest<\/span><\/a><span> foreign countries of any country in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Afghan civilians <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/05\/afghans-complain-of-widespread-bribery-demands-for-passports\/\"><span>grumbled<\/span><\/a><span> that the passport office opened weeks behind schedule, and once it commenced operations, a great deal of bribe money was needed to obtain documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Taliban\u2019s interior ministry <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2329694\/afghan-taliban-arrest-man-for-selling-130-women\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;Tuesday that 60 people have been arrested for using fake documents to obtain passports, including several employees of the passport department. The ministry also announced the arrest of a man who allegedly sold 130 women into slavery after tricking them into thinking he was setting them up with rich husbands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Sunday, the Taliban passport directorate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/taliban-to-start-issuing-passports-in-7-afghanistan-provinces\/articleshow\/87689732.cms\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> it would open branch operations in seven provinces to relieve pressure on the Kabul office.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haqqani claimed on Sunday the directorate had issued 100,000 passports, a million more were rolling off the printers, and his office had enough supplies to produce another six million after that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run passport office in Kabul shut down on Tuesday, ostensibly because its biometric equipment and computer systems could not handle the enormous demand for travel documents. 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