A gunman shot and killed two intelligence officers in an attack outside a roadside restaurant in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday before fleeing, police and security officials said. Murtaza Bhatti, a senior police officer in the Punjab province district of Khanewal, said the attack happened when the two officers were parking their vehicle, local media reported. According to the reports no […]

The United States said on Tuesday Washington is discussing “very specific consequences” of the recent decisions of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) both internally and with its allies and partners. This comes in response to the IEA’s recent moves to stop women from attending university and barring them from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). “We have said repeatedly that […]

Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Tuesday called on Islamabad to stop issuing threats and to carry out a “deep review” of its policies related to Afghanistan, saying that prevailing “insecurity” in Pakistan is the result of its own policies. Karzai had been responding to a statement issued after Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) meeting early this week which stated […]

The Ministry of Information and Culture of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said a court decision will be made on Thursday regarding the validity of licenses of a number of media outlets. However, Abdulhaq Emad, head of the publication department of the Ministry of Information and Culture, rejected reports that the court decision will be made in the absence […]

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to take action against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants. Calling Afghanistan a “brotherly and Islamic country,” Sanaullah urged the government to prevent TTP attacks which he claimed were being carried out from Afghanistan soil, and handover militants. The official, who was speaking in an interview with Pakistan’s Express […]

China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) is interested in investing in the construction of water storage dams and energy production projects in Afghanistan. On Twitter, the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) said that the head of CRBC and a number of technical officials of this company met with Abdul Latif Mansoor in Tashkent and discussed investment in these projects in the country. […]

UN deputy envoy in Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, on Sunday met with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs, Abdul Salam Hanafi, and called on IEA to reconsider ban on women in universities and NGOs. Noting that 28 million Afghans need urgent international aid, Potzel said that continuation of the existing situation would force the international […]

The charge d’affaires of the Afghan embassy in Pakistan says that he has established official relations with the political offices of 27 countries in Islamabad. Sardar Ahmad Shakib, Chargé d’affaires of the Afghanistan Embassy in Pakistan, says that since starting at the embassy, he has held between 60 and 70 meetings with representatives of foreign countries in order to improve […]

The Ministry of National Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Sunday said Rana Sanaullah, the Minister of Interior Affairs of Pakistan’s comments about the presence of members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan and a possible attack on them inside Afghanistan was “provocative and baseless”. “Such claims by Pakistani authorities, even though there is evidence of […]

Iran’s interior ministry says it has approved residency permits for more than one million Afghan refugees currently in the country. Sadiq Rezadoost, Iran’s Director General of Foreign Nationals and Immigrant Affairs of the Ministry of Interior, said that all nationals who came to Iran after the political developments in Afghanistan last year, or who were given papers in the past […]