Despite close political relations and geographical proximity, sanctions by United States on the Islamic Republic have prevented Iran-Pakistan economic ties from realizing their full potential, solely because the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot access international banking. To resolve the mentioned problem, the two countries inked a barter trade agreement during the meeting of their Joint Economic Committee in Tehran in […]

Imran Khan on Sunday became the first Pakistani Prime Minister to lose a no-confidence vote, after failing in a last-ditch effort to block a vote that the country’s Supreme Court had said must be held on Saturday. Pakistan’s parliament began voting late on Saturday night on a no-confidence motion against Khan, after a 13-hour impasse in which parliament was adjourned […]

Every seminar on global peace and harmonious coexistence invariably has two things in common. One, all speakers wax eloquent in projecting their own countries as unconditional champions of peace, while portraying an unfriendly state as the fountainhead of evil, and responsible for the existing sorry state of affairs. Two, every speaker displays remarkable magnanimity, making reconciliatory offers to mend fences […]

Amid reports of internal divisions, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban organization) held a televised meeting of the Taliban government cabinet in Kandahar, not in Kabul where the government is based. Kandahar is considered the spiritual capital of the Taliban movement. The cabinet meeting was reportedly presided over by Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Afghan Taliban leader who is viewed […]

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Afghan Taliban jihadi organization that seized power in August 2021) – has launched Ramadan Operations in the Pakistani tribal region starting on April 2, the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Afghanistan. As the TTP follows the Islamic Emirate, which announced the first […]

Pakistan’s lower house of parliament on Sunday (April 9) voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from office, following a nearly 14-hour standoff between the opposition and Khan’s ruling party that started on Saturday morning (April 8). Opposition parties were able to secure 174 votes in the 342-member house in support of the no-confidence motion, the house speaker […]

Deborah Lyons, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) in Afghanistan said in a meeting with acting minister of culture and information Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa that she was concerned over restrictions against the local media. Lyons called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to engage with journalists. “Concerned by threats & restrictions against media”, she said adding that […]