Events in the year 2022 in Afghanistan.
According to the United Nations Development Programme, by 2022, 97% of Afghans could fall under the poverty threshold, which would plunge the country into a major humanitarian crisis.
After the Fall of Kabul, in which the Islamist Taliban drove out the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government after its 20-year rule, the Taliban promised to set up a new constitution for Afghanistan. The constitution is intended to be adopted in 2022.
The Islamic State continue their insurgency, carrying out many bombings. Afghanistan is also badly affected by earthquakes and flooding.
Incumbents PhotoPostNameDatesSupreme LeaderHibatullah AkhundzadaActing Prime MinisterHasan AkhundChief JusticeAbdul Hakim HaqqaniDeputy LeaderActing Deputy Prime Minister
Events Ongoing Afghan conflict Islamic State–Taliban conflict Republican insurgency in Afghanistan Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan
January 1 January – India sends 500,000 doses of Covaxin to Afghanistan as a part of a humanitarian aid program. 9 January – Faizullah Jalal, a professor at Kabul University and a critic of the Taliban, is arrested by the new Government of Afghanistan. 13 January – The 2022 Taliban dissension begins. 16 January – Last of the 2021–2022 Afghan protests 17 January – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Badghis Province, killing at least 26 people. 22 January – Herat bus bombing
February 2 February - Taliban reopens public universities across the country. 5 February – Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes – Tehrik-i-Taliban militants based in Afghanistan cross into Kurram District and attack a Pakistani Army checkpoint on the Durand Line, killing five Pakistani soldiers. 15 February – Death of Haider 24 February – Eight workers for a United Nations polio vaccination program are murdered in four different locations in northern Afghanistan.
March 4 March – Islamic State – Khorasan Province detonate a bomb in a mosque in Paktia Province, killing three people and injuring at least 24.
April 9 April – 2022 Afghanistan-Pakistan clashes 16 April – 2022 Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan 19 April – April 2022 Kabul school bombing 21 April – 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif mosque bombing 22 April – 2022 Kunduz mosque bombing 28 April – 28 April 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif bombings 29 April – April 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
May 1 May – Afghanistan's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada made a public appearance on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. 5 May – A series of floods kill 22 people. 25 May: May 2022 Kabul mosque bombing 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings
June
22 June – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Khost Province, killing at least 1,163 people and injuring over 3,000. Over 25 villages were razed to the ground. The Barmal District was worst affected, with nearly half of the fatalities occurring there. 238 others were also killed in the Gayan District, where over 70% of the district's houses collapsed. The Spera District, closest to the earthquake's epicentre, experienced 40 fatalities, and the destruction of 500 homes. It is deadliest earthquake in Afghanistan since 1998. 29 June – Afghanistan Ulema gathering
July 31 July - Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
August 5 August - 5 August 2022 Kabul bombing 5 August - Murder of Hamed Sabouri 17 August - August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
September 2 September - 2022 Herat mosque bombing 5 September Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake 23 September - September 2022 Kabul mosque bombing 30 September - September 2022 Kabul school bombing
November 10 November - Ministry of Virtue and Vice issues ban on women from entering parks and gyms throughout the country. 30 November - 2022 Aybak bombing
December 6 December - December 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif bombing 12 December - 2022 Kabul hotel attack 18 December - At least 20 people are killed when a tank truck overturns, explodes and catches fire in the Salang Tunnel. 20 December - Taliban bans Afghan women from attending universities cause of islamic shariyyah. Which gives them lots of opportunities.
See also Terrorist incidents in Afghanistan in 2022
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