Tens of thousands of supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party rallied in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza and what it said is the world’s failure to protect Gazans. Amid anti-Israeli and anti-American slogans the emotionally charged crowd also called for jihad, or holy war. Earlier this month, Jamaat-e-Islami held massive […]

The Taliban’s acting commerce minister said he had asked Pakistan to help return the assets of expelled Afghans and discussed ways to overcome Afghanistan’s stalled banking sector transactions during a four-day visit to Islamabad this week. Acting minister Nooruddin Azizi’s arrival in the Pakistani capital marked the first public visit by a senior Taliban official since Pakistan announced its policy […]

Pakistan security forces killed four militants in a shootout during an overnight raid in the country’s northwest near the border with Afghanistan, the military said Sunday. A military statement said security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Khaisoor area of North Waziristan district, where they exchanged fire with militants. It said troops seized weapons and ammunition from the militants’ […]

A roadside bomb exploded in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, killing three people, police said. Police officer Mohammad Rahim said the bomb was planted on a dirt road in the Balgatar area of Kech district and was detonated remotely. Three men, two of whom were brothers, were killed while on their way to a family gathering, and a privately owned car […]

The Islamic Emirate’s deputy prime minister Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi and other officials visited Spin Boldak in Kandahar on Sunday where they met with refugees who had returned from Pakistan. Hanafi, who is also head of a commission tasked to deal with problems of returning refugees, visited a number of people in their homes and held a meeting with officials […]

In a strong message to the government in Kabul, Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar has asked the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to decide whether they will take action against terrorists using Afghanistan’s soil to carry out attacks in Pakistan or hand them over to Islamabad. In an exclusive interview with Pakistan’s Geo News on Sunday, Kakar said the […]

Abdulbari Omar, head of Afghanistan Food and Drug Authority (AFDA) said on Monday his trip to Europe was legitimate and apolitical. Omar’s visit to Europe stirred controversy after he appeared at a mosque in Cologne in Germany, addressing an audience largely made up of Afghan expatriates. Germany launched an investigation into the trip. Omar said at a press conference in […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, in response to Donald Trump’s statement that the United States will regain control of Bagram Airfield, says Trump holds no political power and his words cannot be discussed. IEA’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said they will not allow Afghanistan to once again become a field of competition between regional and world powers. “Trump is now an […]

Those two’s North-South Transport Corridor through Iran will now become the lifeline for the Afghan people and their war-torn economy. Iran and the Taliban became embroiled in a bitter dispute over water rights earlier this spring that was analyzed here at the time, which warned that these continued tensions dangerously risked dividing-and-ruling the broader region to the US’ hegemonic benefit. […]

Tensions over anti-Pakistan TTP terrorist group, expulsion of Afghan refugees will have implications for U.S. interests. On November 8, in an unprecedented press conference, Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul-Haq Kakar offered a blistering critique of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He announced that the Taliban leadership was supporting the anti-Pakistan insurgency of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and that had […]