Imran Khan’s unceremonious fall from the prime minister’s office has only reinvigorated his devoted supporters. On Thursday, the Pakistan Teheek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, the recently ousted prime minister, Imran Khan addressed one of the biggest rallies of his career at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan. At the rally Khan reiterated his claim of a U.S.-led “global conspiracy” having led to his ouster on April […]

The election of neighborhood representatives in Kabul suggests that the Taliban are in some aspects pragmatic, but this experiment will likely remain limited. This spring, Afghans living in various neighborhoods in the capital Kabul elected their wakilon guzar, or neighborhood representatives, casting their votes in ballot boxes or by raising their hands in gatherings in mosques. While this might be […]

Police in Pakistan said Tuesday three Chinese nationals and their local driver were killed in a suicide bombing of a van in the southern city of Karachi. Senior police officers told reporters the victims had been traveling to the city’s Chinese-built Confucius Institute when the blast hit their van at the entrance.

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres has again expressed concern over the absence of cash in Afghanistan and urged the international community to create conditions so that cash is injected into the economy. Speaking at a joint press conference with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, Guterres said that the absence of cash and liquidity in the […]

Afghanistan’s ministry of interior said Tuesday night that it has largely suppressed Daesh (ISIS-K) in the country and “eliminated the terrorist organization by 98 percent”. The statement came on the heels of claims by Iran that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) was not safeguarding Afghans, especially the Shiite community, from attacks by the group. In response, the IEA said […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) is considering convening a grand assembly of elders, known as a Loya Jigra, Iran’s special envoy has said. “Loya Jirga is a traditional event where elders gather to resolve a crisis that cannot be resolved through ordinary means,” Hasan Kazemi Qumi, Iranian president’s special representative on Afghanistan, told Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency. “The […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Economic Commission, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, on Sunday gave orders for various ministries to prioritize projects to generate electricity by using coal. In a statement, the commission said after “extensive discussions on all issues that the private sector is prepared to invest in” it was decided that the generation […]

A delegation led by Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister, are in Doha to discuss various issues, including the plan for the management of Kabul airport. Mohammad Naeem Wardak, spokesman for the IEA’s Qatar office, tweeted that Muttaqi and Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani met in Doha […]

The acting interior minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Sirajuddin Haqqani, has called on former high-ranking government officials and security forces to return home. During a visit to Kabul police headquarters this week, Haqqani urged officials to return and assured them of their security. Haqqani said the Islamic Emirate defends the dignity, property and honor of all citizens […]

Iran has accredited three diplomats dispatched by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to the Afghan embassy in Tehran, BBC reported on Monday. One of them will serve as the third secretary of the embassy while the other two will be ordinary employees of the embassy. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that movement of diplomats between the capital […]