A large explosion caused by a suicide bomber in Kabul’s diplomatic district left at least 13 people dead and others injured Wednesday in the latest attack targeting Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, according to a CBS News source. The blast happened at the main entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just as employees were leaving for the day, and images shared […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, and discussed bilateral relations, regional issues, economic cooperation and the current situation, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, said. Takal said Muttaqi emphasized the need for the extension of diplomatic presence in Moscow. He quoted the […]

Afghanistan and Pakistan have had a tortuous shared history that has left a complicated legacy of divided ethnicity across a Pak-Afghan border. Despite having some serious concerns regarding TTP’s sanctuaries inside Afghanistan, Pakistan has been extending all possible political and economic assistance to Kabul over humanitarian grounds.  Since the fall of Kabul, chaos has engulfed Kabul, with Islamic Emirate of […]

Turkmenistan’s president opened 2023 with a tribute mission to China. As Serdar Berdymukhamedov noted before his departure from Ashgabat, his state visit carried important symbolic value since it fell on the exact 31st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and China.  After a six-and-a-half-hour flight to Beijing on January 5, Berdymukhamedov was driven in a motorcade to the Diaoyutai State […]

Asia’s strong economic rebound from the pandemic is losing steam as tightening financial conditions, reduced export demand, and China’s sharp and uncharacteristic slowdown dim the outlook. More broadly, deep economic scars from the pandemic and the lackluster productivity growth that preceded it are weighing on the region’s longer-term growth prospects. But despite these challenges, we see a promising path for boosting Asia’s […]

Backtracking on its commitments, the Ministry of Higher Education of the self-declared Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has banned women from attending universities ‘until further notice’. Following this, another order was issued barring women from working with NGOs and humanitarian organisations, expediting their erasure from public life in Afghanistan. The decision, criticised by the international community as well as common […]