Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’” says that Turkey has stepped up […]

Afghanistan’s finance ministry has collected 197 billion afghanis in revenue since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) took over the country in August last year, an official said this week. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ariana News, Mohammad Meraj Meraj, head of the Revenue Department of Finance Ministry, said that the ministry’s revenues are more than the government’s ordinary […]

China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release this week of a statement by the world’s leading economies that strongly criticizes Moscow. Could this, at last, signal a bold new policy change by Beijing and New Delhi to align themselves with what the United States and […]

Pakistan said Friday it would not formally recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) without global consensus. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari told reporters in Islamabad his government continues to advocate sustained international engagement with IEA to help prevent a humanitarian disaster in the war-torn neighboring country. “As far as their official recognition is concerned, Pakistan would not want to […]

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 […]