PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan on Saturday partially reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow thousands of stranded Afghan refugees to return home, officials said. Restrictions remain on all other cross-border movement, including trade. Pakistan closed all border crossings with Afghanistan on Oct. 12 following deadly clashes in which both sides claimed to have killed […]
Read MoreBy Khushboo Razdan in Washington US President Donald Trump’s bid to regain control of the strategic Bagram airbase in Afghanistan has achieved an unlikely feat – bringing India, Pakistan and China onto the same side in opposition. At the 7th Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan in Moscow on Tuesday, the three Asian powers – often […]
Read MoreAfghanistan’s Taliban foreign minister will visit India this month after the UN Security Council Committee temporarily lifted a travel ban, Kabul’s foreign ministry confirmed to AFP today (4 September). Amir Khan Muttaqi will become the first senior Taliban leader to visit India since they returned to power in 2021 following the withdrawal of the US […]
Read MoreBy Aisyah Llewellyn It was a day Bibi Rahima Farhangdost feared might never come. After 11 years living in limbo in Indonesia as an Afghan refugee, she was finally on her way to a new life in Australia, boarding a flight to Tasmania at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on July 23. “Finally, it happened. I […]
Read MoreKABUL: The Taliban government has severed consular ties with swathes of Afghan embassies in Western countries, Kabul said Tuesday, cutting off diplomats loyal to the former foreign-backed administration. The 2021 Taliban takeover left diplomats staffing Afghanistan’s foreign missions in limbo, having pledged to serve a government which collapsed in chaos after the withdrawal of US […]
Read MoreKabul: Nooruddin Azizi, the acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, held meetings with the president of Mordovia, and senior officials of the Russian Federation and Tatarstan on the sidelines of the Kazan Summit. Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, said that the discussions focused on increasing and balancing bilateral […]
Read MoreIn a recent report, UNESCO sheds light on the educational barriers faced by Afghan girls, highlighting the alarming statistic that 75% of them are denied access to education. Afghanistan finds itself among the top ten countries where girls encounter significant obstacles to schooling, with nine African nations sharing this unfortunate distinction. The UNESCO report emphasizes […]
Read MoreMawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, the acting Minister of Defense for the Islamic Emirate, embarked on an official visit to Qatar, participating in significant discussions with the Qatari Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff of the Defense Ministry. The meeting, attended by defense ministers from various nations, reflects the evolving diplomatic landscape in the region. […]
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