Pakistan on Wednesday said sustained engagement with the Interim Afghan government remained imperative as Islamabad believed a ‘new balance’ was needed to be devised with the Taliban. Addressing the fourth Moscow format meeting that began on Wednesday in Moscow, Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq said Pakistan was a firm adherent to the primacy of a regional approach […]

Armed militants on Wednesday ambushed a routine police patrol in northwestern Pakistan, killing all six policemen in the vehicle, while a shootout with gunmen elsewhere in the volatile region killed two soldiers, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ambush in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and has seen frequent attacks on security forces. The militant […]

The Trump administration’s exclusion of the U.S.-backed Afghan government in peace talks with the Taliban proved to be a key factor in its rapid collapse last year, according to a withering new report by a federal watchdog issued Thursday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction report came in response to a call from Congress for analysis of why the […]

The US Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has assessed the underlying factors behind the collapse of the former Afghan government and listed nine factors that led to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s take over. SIGAR found the single most important factor in the former ANDSF’s collapse in August 2021 was the US decision to withdraw military forces and contractors […]

The Chinese Ambassador to Kabul Wang Yu said in a meeting with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi that China will continue to support the new Afghan government, MoFA said. According to Muttaqi, several issues of mutual interest were discussed between the two on Wednesday. The Chinese ambassador announced Beijing would provide aid ahead of […]

The Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said at a meeting on Wednesday with officials from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that the Islamic Emirate has been able to eliminate war and administrative corruption in the country and pave the ground for progress and development. He said that the Organization of Islamic […]