Qureshi calls for rebooting Afghan banking system
Afghan delegation, US special rep both to attend OIC moot News Desk December 17, 2021 PHOTO: RADIO PAKISTAN ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday stressed the rebooting of […]
Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is preventable if we have the will
Nearly 22.8 million Afghans face acute food insecurity https://cdn.vuukle.com/widgets/powerbar.html?version=2.10.13 People sit with their belongings in the Pakistan side of the border after the authorities of Pakistan and Afghanistan close the […]
Ex-Afghan President Karzai ‘invited’ Taliban into Kabul to prevent chaos
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS PROVIDENCE, R.I. DEC 15, 2021 – 9:28 AM GMT+3Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press (AP) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 10, […]
Afghan Drone Strike Survivors Angry U.S. Troops Won’t Be Punished, Still Await Relocation
BY ERIN BRADY ON 12/14/21 Pentagon: U.S. Drone Attack That Killed 10 In Kabul Was A ‘Mistake’ The survivors of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan are upset that the troops involved […]
Looming crisis in Afghanistan directly affecting Pakistan and Iran, PM Khan says
Politics December 11, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has criticized a continued freezing of Afghanistan’s assets by the United States as the war-hit country […]
A genuine resistance that offers hope for all Afghans
LUKE COFFEY December 10, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/723vq It has been four months since the Taliban took over most of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal precipitated the collapse of the […]
US commander: Al-Qaeda numbers in Afghanistan up ‘slightly’
Afghan people sit inside a US military aircraft to leave Afghanistan, at the military airport in Kabul on August 19, 2021 after the Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan. (AFP) Short […]
Will Pakistan Be the Next Country to Fall to a Taliban-Style Takeover?
The military’s role in politics has emboldened the religious far right. By Hasan Ali Twitter TODAY 5:30 AM Saad Rizvi, leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, speaks to supporters in Lahore on the anniversary of the death of his father, Khadim Hussain Rizvi. (Arif Ali / AFP via Getty Images) ISLAMABAD—Last week—in […]
Iran announces readiness to help alleviate humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
Shamkhani says Iran is concerned about Daesh activities in Afghanistan Politics November 10, 2021 – TEHRAN — The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) on Wednesday stressed the […]
Perspectives | Islamic State using China to vilify Taliban
CHINA, AFGHANISTAN Since the Taliban took Kabul, Islamic State sympathizers across South Asia have increased attacks on the movement over its ties to China. Lucas Webber Nov 4, 2021Islamic State’s Amaq News […]
After 20 years of drone strikes, it’s time to admit they’ve failed
OPINION The very first drone attack missed its target, and two decades on civilians are still being killed. Why can’t we accept that the technology doesn’t work? By Emran Ferozarchive […]
U.S. trained Afghan military elites “defect” to Daesh
U.S. trained Afghan military elites “defect” to Daesh International November 2, 2021 – Tehran Times TEHRAN – In what might be one of the most disastrous outcomes of the anarchic […]
Taliban bans foreign currencies in Afghanistan
Published7 hours ago bbc.com The Taliban has banned the use of foreign currencies in Afghanistan, a move that could further disrupt an economy on the brink of collapse. “The economic […]
Afghanistan: What is the Taliban’s religious ideology?
Despite the Taliban’s military victory, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to impose their extremely conservative religious view of society on the Afghan people in the […]
‘Just give us our money’: Taliban push to unlock Afghan billions abroad
‘Just give us our money’: Taliban push to unlock Afghan billions abroad Reuters Published October 30, 2021 – FRANKFURT: Afghanistan’s Taliban government is pressing for the release of billions of dollars of […]
The Taliban’s secretive war against IS
By Secunder KermaniBBC News, Jalalabad bbc.com Every few days, bodies are dumped on the outskirts of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Some have been shot or hanged, some beheaded. […]
State Dept, Pentagon are concealing Afghanistan data, says U.S. watchdog
This content was published on October 30, 2021 – 00:19October 30, 2021 – 00:19 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. government watchdog on Friday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse of Afghanistan’s former government and military and the […]
Why the Hazara people fear genocide in Afghanistan
OPINIONOpinions|Human Rights With a long history of persecution, the Hazaras fear the worst under Taliban rule. Sitarah MohammadiSitarah Mohammadi is a former Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, who spent 2019 as […]
Traders losing 854k $ a day while Afghan-Pakistan border crossing stays shut
Trucks loaded with supplies wait in line after a road was closed by traders in protest against the closing of a crossing point at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. (Reuters) Border closed […]
Afghanistan heading towards collapse faster than expected, Swedish minister warns
This content was published on October 23, 2021 By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – Afghanistan is heading towards economic collapse that risks spiralling the country into a new political crisis, […]