The month of May-June 2022 has been the global calendar of important global multilateral interactions. Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States gathered for the first-ever Special Summit held in Washington, D.C., on 12-13 May 2022. The Quad Security Dialogue a group made of four nations, India, Japan, the US, and Australia held […]

The acting government delegation headed by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and US delegation headed by Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West held in-depth discussion on key issues of mutual interest in Doha. Acting government spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi on his Twitter handle wrote: “Senior IEA delegation led by Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi held two-day meeting in Doha […]

The Indian government delivered a consignment of six tons of essential medicines to Afghanistan on Thursday, as part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance, New Delhi said. The consignment was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul, Indian foreign ministry said in a statement. The assistance follows urgent appeals made by the United Nations to assist the Afghan people. […]

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey had offered to operate Kabul airport in Afghanistan with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and was awaiting the response of the Islamic Emirate to the proposal. He was speaking at a news conference at the end of a NATO summit in Madrid. Turkey and Qatar have been negotiating with Islamic Emirate […]

The reclusive supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Haibatullah Akhundzada, hailed the IEA’s takeover of Afghanistan during a meeting in Kabul on Friday. The meeting of religious leaders from around the country was called to forge national unity. IEA spokesmen confirmed that Akhundzada, who is based in the southern city of Kandahar, had come to Kabul for […]

Rebuilding an International System That Works There they were, meeting in Beijing on February 4: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Shortly before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics, the two leaders released a remarkable 5,300-word joint statement about how the partnership between China and Russia would have “no limits.” The document went on at length […]

Prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir has approved 100 million rupees ($484,000) for last week’s earthquake victims in Afghanistan, it was reported Thursday. Kashmir’s cabinet and top bureaucracy also donated one month’s salary for the relief of the people of Afghanistan, Pakistani newspaper The News reported. Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, the prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said that the people of Pakistan […]

Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs has called for an easing of Western sanctions against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), saying the basic functioning of the Afghan economy must not be endangered. The IEA takeover last year prompted foreign governments, led by the United States, to cut development and security aid, and the strict enforcement of sanctions has […]