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On April 6, the White House released a short report defending its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The 12-page summary was released on the cusp of Easter weekend — presumably to minimize attention to it — but the substance of the document and the accompanying press briefing with National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby nevertheless generated immediate…
China’s foreign minister Qin Gang will visit Islamabad from May 5 to 6 to attend the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue in PakistanChina’s foreign minister Qin Gang will visit Islamabad from May 5 to 6 to attend the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue in Pakistan, his first visit to Beijing’s “ironclad” ally after taking over the ministry, Chinese foreign
A government has allowed a maximum of 380 principal applicants under the special program, which is expected to remain open until September.
Doha: The Taliban has not been invited to a United Nations-organised conference on Afghanistan in Doha.Envoys from the United States, China and Russia, as well as major European aid donors and key neighbours such as Pakistan, are among the representatives from about 25 countries and groups called to the two days of closed-door talks by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the Qatari capital
Tehran: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Monday held talks with his Iranian counterpart Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported Iran’s IRNA news agency.The two officials discussed economic, political and security issues concerning the two countries as well as the most important regional and international developments.Doval is scheduled to
Islamic State suicide attack that killed 180 including 13 US service members occurred during US withdrawal from AfghanistanThe Islamic State leader behind the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing that killed about 180 people including 13 US service membe…
Washington Post: Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals Less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State…
Josie Stewart, who highlighted failures in Afghan evacuation, is concerned by attempt to keep her legal challenge privateA whistleblower who was sacked for highlighting Britain’s chaotic response to the fall of Kabul has expressed frustration at govern…
Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, 40 million Afghans have been dealing with both a repressive regime and unprecedented economic hardship. Afghan citizens’ everyday lives have been upended by the country’s two concurrent crises: a human rights crisis as a result of the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s ability to work and its ban…
Kabul: Pakistani government and military do not seem to have a way out from facing persistent attacks from the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The demands of TTP have varied over time, and the group has been using violence as means to make Pakistan accept them. One of its major demands of withdrawal of troops from the tribal areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is a sore point with the