(5 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS – NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
Kabul, Afghanistan – 5 June 2025
1. People walking down a market in Kabul
2. A boy selling bananas at a market
SOUNDBITE (English) Elena Becatoros, Associated Press reporter:
“U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he’s imposing a travel ban on people from twelve countries from visiting the United States. And those include people in Afghanistan. So Afghan passport holders will not be able to enter the U.S. as of Monday. We’ve been out in the streets of Kabul, we’ve been asking what people think about this. And we also ran into a Taliban guard who is outside the old U.S. embassy. Now here’s what he had to say.”
3. Various Taliban checkpoint in Kabul
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Ilias Kakal, Taliban guard:
“America has no right to do this and implement this ban. America has to cancel it.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Elena Becatoros, Associated Press reporter:
"It has been so difficult for the past three years for any Afghan passport holder to get a visa for the United States that in essence, travel agents told us, it’s not going to have that much practical effect. But it has been a big psychological blow, there was a hope that Afghanistan and the United States would eventually normalize relations, at least that’s what people have been telling us, so they are quite disappointed in this travel ban.”
6. Mid of chickens
7. Man sitting outside a butcher
ASSOCIATED PRESS – NO ACCESS AFGHANISTAN INTERNATIONAL
Kabul, Afghanistan – 4 June 2025
8. Various of Taliban checkpoint in Kabul
STORYLINE:
In Afghanistan’s capital, many had not heard about the travel ban on Afghan nationals on Thursday morning.
But among travel agents who had, several pointed out that the ban would have little practical effect as Afghan passport holders had been facing problems in getting U.S. visas for years.
Ever since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021, only Afghans with foreign passports or Green Cards were able to travel to the United States with any ease, they said.
Those who applying for special visas due to their work with U.S. forces in Afghanistan in previous years were facing problems.
Outside the former U.S. Embassy in Kabul, a Taliban guard expressed his disappointment in Trump’s decision.
“America has no right to do this and implement this ban,” said Ilias Kakal. “America has to cancel it.”
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