Britain’s shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, arrived in Kabul on Wednesday to highlight the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Lammy is the first senior British politician to visit the country since the west’s chaotic withdrawal last August. He is being accompanied by Preet Gill, the shadow minister for international development. “The UK’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan […]

The Indian government is close to a decision on resuming a diplomatic presence in Afghanistan though the move will not amount to a recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regime in Kabul, Indian media reported Wednesday. The issue of India reopening its embassy in Kabul was discussed at meetings last week during JP Singh, the special envoy to Afghanistan’s […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Ministry of Interior announced Wednesday it would distribute new police uniforms to 20,000 officers in Kabul and Kandahar provinces, and that the remaining police departments around the country would receive their new uniforms in the near future. The new police uniform is dark blue, instead of the grey-blue uniform worn by police under the […]

On June 4, 2022, two non-local labourers were injured when militants lobbed a grenade at Aglar Zainapora in Shopian District. The religious identities of the injured are not available. On June 2, a Bank Manager of Ellaquai Dehati Bank, Branch Kulgam and a labourer, both non-locals, were killed in two separate militant attacks Kulgam and Budgam Districts respectively. While Bank […]

On May 30, 2022, two soldiers and as many children sustained injuries when a suicide bomber struck a vehicle of the Security Forces (SFs) parked at a checkpost in the Dosali area of the Razmak subdivision in the North Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Officials said that the vehicle was parked near a checkpost in the Dosali area when […]

Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal reportedly made remarks against Prophet Muhammad. Indian Muslims are outraged. Islamic nations Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and Iran, have taken serious diplomatic objection, and Qatar has reportedly demanded “public apology” from India. In some of these countries, there are “… protests being lodged with the Indian missions, Indian […]

The outrage in the Muslim world over the transgression of the red line in anti-Muslim politics in India is understandable, although the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party acted swiftly for damage control. The point is, the world has taken note that anti-Muslim politics has reached a crescendo in India and is undermining the country’s democratic foundations. The US state department last […]

Cambodia once again dismissed concerns China is secretly building a naval facility in the Southeast Asian nation following a report published Monday that the two sides are set to break ground on the military project this week. Western officials are concerned the countries are concealing moves to establish a Chinese military presence at the Ream Naval Base on the Gulf […]

Unspecified millions of dollars remain unaccounted for some 10 months after the Afghan government disintegrated during the frantic withdrawal of U.S. personnel last summer, a government watchdog report issued Tuesday said. It remains unclear whether any stolen money was provided by the United States, John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said in the interim report. Some high-ranking […]

Senior Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) leader Anas Haqqani said once the country’s economic challenges have been resolved, the authorities will look at stamping out the problem of illiteracy. He said illiterate nations face poverty and other challenges. Addressing a meeting to assess the challenges in the country, Haqqani said: “Afghanistan’s current problems are the result of a 20-year war, […]