Out of the blue on June 1 the news broke that secret talks had taken place in mid-May between the head of the Taliban and the prime minister of Qatar. A cloak of secrecy had been cast over this first known meeting of Haibatullah Akhunzada, leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, with any foreign statesman. News of the talks was […]

After a series of renewed talks between the U.S. and China leading up to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s expected visit to Beijing in coming weeks, experts said the two rivals need to come up with a plan to avoid conflict. The talks had been stalled since February over a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying across the U.S. The two […]

An alleged terrorist was killed in crossfire with a police team in Mattani area of Peshawar early on Tuesday, police said. Four miscreants attacked a police team headed by the Saddar circle SP duing a ‘targeted’ operation. All officals including the officer remained unhurt. Three suspects managed to escape. Police said one of the runaway suspects suffered gunshot wound and […]

The acting governor of an Afghan province was killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday, officials said, months after the region’s police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Security has improved dramatically since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, ousting the US-backed government and ending their two-decade insurgency, but IS remains […]

Three days after India announced that it had sent a technical team back to its embassy in Kabul, a delegation of Indian Islamic scholars travelled to Iran and met with the acting ambassador of Afghanistan in Tehran. The delegation led by Salman Husaini Nadwi, a prominent Indian scholar, spoke with Ambassador Fazl Mohammad Haqqani about the issues related to Afghanistan […]

Sweden’s government has appointed Johan Ndisi as its Special Representative for Afghanistan and the new head of the Swedish embassy for the country, a statement said on Saturday. Ndisi will assume his position in August, Sweden’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement, adding that the embassy’s operations had temporarily been relocated to Stockholm. “The government has appointed Johan […]

Addressing a gathering of religious scholars, tribal elders and local officials, the Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani said that the “poison” of the enemies still remains in Afghanistan and a lot of work is needed to build public trust. Sirajuddin Haqqani’s trip to the north of the country is at the request of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate. […]

The world of the 21st century is changing unstoppably, dramatically and dynamically from day to day in every aspect, especially in geopolitics. The previous 20th century in terms of geopolitics, apart from the two world wars, was mostly marked by the process of decolonization in which European powers such as Great Britain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain and others definitively […]

Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world at the heart of Eurasia, is holding the Astana International Forum this week with the aim to amplify the voices of countries seeking a less polarised international order and greater collaboration in addressing humanity’s biggest challenges. Looking at the state of our planet today, it is clear why there is a need […]

Malaysia, its power structure with only itself to blame, starts to confront a Green Wave If Malaysia, long thought of as a moderate, modern, multi ethnic state of 33.5 million people, becomes the first Southeast to fall under the thrall of an Arabist Islamic party that wants to implement Shariah law, it won’t be so much a victory for religious […]