Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court has removed the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) from the list of banned groups, IEA’s foreign ministry announced on Friday citing Kazakh envoy. Kazakh Ambassador to Afghanistan Alim Khan Yasin Galdiev met with Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and the sides discussed bilateral issues, the foreign ministry said in a statement. During the meeting, Muttaqi appreciated […]

Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry has announced that the country will open an embassy in Afghan capital Kabul next year, Azerbaijan’s Report news agency said on Friday. According to the decree signed by President Ilham Aliyev on July 28, 2021, Ilham Mammadov was appointed as Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Afghanistan, the agency said.

While almost all of Plato’s erudite observations have withstood the test of time, “iron clad brothers”– opulent China and impoverished Islamabad, appear to disprove the ancient Greek philosopher’s view that “true friendship can exist only between equals.” In March this year, when debt-ridden Pakistan was staring at a possible default in the face, Saudi Arabia, with whom Islamabad boasts of […]

The Tatmadaw usurped power in Myanmar through a coup in February 2021. In the two and a half years since, India has been tolerant of the junta and hasn’t yet interacted with the pro-democracy National Unity Government (NUG). Further, in taking a “business as usual” approach in the interest of certain geostrategic calculations, India has effectively also offered support to […]

The outbreak of Israel-Hamas hostilities, following the latter’s deadly raid on 7 October 2023, has sparked never-before-seen violence in the Gaza Strip. The involvement of external powers, coupled with the regional powers’ pursuit of geopolitical ambitions through proxies, threatens the fragile stability of West Asia. However, beyond the geopolitical implications lurks the threat of terrorist violence and radicalisation as a […]

“Those at particular risk are civil society activists, journalists, human rights defenders, former government officials and security force members, and of course women and girls as a whole, who, as a result of the abhorrent policies currently in place in Afghanistan, are banned from secondary and tertiary education, working in many sectors and other aspects of daily and public life.” […]

Since their return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have managed to reach an understanding with most of the Central Asian governments to preserve a relative calm along the areas of the Afghan-Central Asian frontier. Disputes over water use have suddenly become an issue that could derail ties between Afghanistan and Central Asian states. Specifically, the construction […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko met in Beijing on Monday, December 4. Lukashenko described the visit to Beijing as “working”, and Xi received him at the Diaoyutai state residence in the western suburbs of the capital. The “working lunch” lasted for three hours of talks between the two leaders. The great importance of the meeting […]

Henry Kissinger, the best-known American diplomat of modern times, is deeply associated in the Indian mind with the tumultuous events of 1971 – Pakistan Army’s brutal crackdown on the people of East Pakistan, the intensification of the secessionist movement there and India’s military intervention that helped create Bangladesh. Kissinger’s tilt to Pakistan and his insensitivity to the suffering of the […]

The Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani met with the special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan on Wednesday where a range of issues were discussed. According to the ministry, both parties discussed relations between the two countries, security issues, the development of trade relations, and Russia’s support for Afghanistan in regional and international forums. Haqqani in turn […]