Wed 24 November 2021:
According to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs, Afghanistan Taliban government will resume issuing passports in ten more provinces on November 25,
“Tomorrow (Thursday), the process of issuing passports will commence in ten additional provinces Parwan, Kapisa, Logar, Wardak, Ghazni, Daykundi, Faryab, Ghor, Nuristan and Badakhshan,” the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, the TOLOnews broadcaster reported, citing the ministry’s Passport Department, that at least 25,000 passports were ready to be issued. The acting head of the department, Alim Gul Haqqani, was cited as saying that the new documents will be attributed to “the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,” which was the country’s name during the previous administration, as opposed to the “Islamic Emirate,” widely used by the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorist activities).
In October, the passport department resumed its services in the capital of Kabul and on November 14 in seven provinces – Herat, Kandahar, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar, Khost and Paktia.
The issuance of Afghan passports was hampered by the August power shift, when the Taliban took control of Kabul and the US-backed government collapsed amid the withdrawal of foreign troops. This prompted the mass evacuation of foreign diplomatic personnel as well as a portion of the Afghan population who feared persecution at the hands of the new authorities.
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