Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has underlined the need for the delivery of urgent humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. At the end of a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday, Sharif issued the call at a meeting with Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha in Makkah. The Prime Minister’s Office in Islamabad said Sharif affirmed […]

The Afghan embassy in India has informed the Punjab University administration about the Afghan students still stuck in their country due to the non-issuance of visas. The embassy spotlighted the problem in an email addressed to the dean of international students, an Indian newspaper reported on Sunday. The Afghans were informed earlier in the month that the end-semester examination for […]

Uzbekistan has provided 4,000 tonnes of food and medicine aid to Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday. The aid included wheat, cooking oil, garments, medicine, vaccine and other essential items, Zabihullah Mujahid, the government acting spokesperson wrote on his twitter handle. Mujahid thanked Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev for his generous assistance to the people of Afghanistan on the eve of […]

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned in the strongest terms the powerful explosion on Friday 29 April 2022, targeting the Khalifa Sahib mosque in Western Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. In a statement the Muslim block said, the despicable attack marks yet another carnage in a string of attacks on Afghan civilians in the holy month of Ramadan, and […]

Afghanistan Railway Authority (ARA), said Friday they are working to expand economic ties with neighboring countries through railway projects. The director general of the Afghan Railways, Bakht-u-Rehman Sharafat, says they are working on plans to develop the railway system in Afghanistan and to use this form of transport for exports. He said that Russia and Kazakhstan have also shown interest […]

Afghans celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday, across all provinces of Afghanistan, including Kabul, after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government declared the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday night. The Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said after Eid prayers at the Palace mosque in Kabul, that this Eid has come with peace […]

Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief said. The blasts targeted two separate vehicles in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, according to Mohammad Asif Waziri, the spokesman. The source of the blasts was not immediately clear and the spokesman […]

The world is littered with wreckage of many countries that fell prey to colonialism’s and imperialism’s ruthless march. All superpowers have hegemonic goals. One can only hope that such goals are achieved with minimum damage to vulnerable targeted countries and with minimum blowback that may make such policies and actions a spectacular failure. The U.S. way of colonizing other nations […]

In January, as his relations with the powerful army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa frayed and the opposition began to coalesce against him, then-Prime Minister Imran Khan issued a warning to those plotting his ouster: Indeed, since Khan was removed from office earlier this month after losing a vote of no confidence, his supporters have taken to the streets in […]