A key insurgent was killed during an operation by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Special Forces on a hideout in Bagrami district of Kabul on Sunday night. Zabiullah Mujahid, the IEA’s spokesman, said the militant commander was killed and another was arrested during the operation. Mujahid did not however say which group the insurgent belonged to. “A prominent enemy commander […]

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved a new on arrival visa policy for Afghan nationals going abroad via Pakistan, local media reported on Saturday. Salman Sufi, head of the Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Initiatives, said that under the new policy a transit visa of 30 days would be issued within 24 hours by the Pakistan government to Afghan nationals, […]

In a separate farewell meetings with Sirajuddin Haqqani and former chairman of the reconciliation council Abdullah Abdullah, the outgoing UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, emphasized the importance of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan. In a series of tweets Saturday night Lyons said that in a meeting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting minister of interior, she emphasized the need to […]

Local officials in Kunar province say an explosion in Asadabad, the provincial capital, has killed one person and injured four others. Malawi Abdulhaq Haqqani, the provincial police chief said the blast took place on Sunday at around 9:00 AM. The device used was an IED which was attended to a police Ranger vehicle. According to the police chief, the mine […]

Seven members of Daesh militant group were killed in an operation by security forces in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province on Saturday, police said. The militants were hiding in a house in Prozhay Sharqi, District 4 of the provincial capital Taluqan. Habibullah Shakir, the police chief of Takhar, said that security forces carried out the raid on Saturday afternoon based on […]

Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying airport workers in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Sunday, killing two of them and wounding six more, police said. The attack happened as the victims were travelling from Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport to the city center. Asif Waziri, a spokesman for Balkh police, said that the attack happened around 3:00p.m. in PD 10 of […]

Montesquieu was a sociologist and political scientist of the eighteen century who believes that geographical location of an area will have implications for its habitants. Pakistan is the country located in the geographical line with having security challenges and a chronic crisis in its neighbour. Newly independent countries at the end of World War II had no option but to […]

Areas Of Concern Economic The poverty rate rose from 43.7% in Autumn 2019 to 51% in Spring 2020.3 The poverty rate was expected to increase further during 2020, and the latest estimates from UNDP moreover suggest that as much as 97% of the population could be living in poverty by the middle of 2022. The increase in poverty also is […]

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met Friday with Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe to discuss U.S.- China defense relations. The two met on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. A senior defense official described the meeting as professional and focused. Wei requested the meeting earlier in the week. The meeting was scheduled for 30 minutes […]

India’s foreign policy cannot be operationalized independent of contemporary and unfolding global geopolitical environment which in 2022 resembles the intense global polarisation of Cold War 1.0 which was Europe-centric. In 2022, Cold War 2.0 has already unfolded with the polarisation now Indo Pacific-centric in terms of manifestation notwithstanding the distraction of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia and China figure in […]