Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan’s Central Bank, has announced that the 17th cash delivery from the United Nations to Afghanistan, of $32 million, arrived in Kabul on Sunday. This brings the total amount of cash to $540 million that has been delivered to the country and handed over to Afghanistan’s International Bank (AIB). Da Afghanistan Bank has welcomed the cash delivery […]

Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has met with Tariq Ali Bakheet, special envoy of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Afghanistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. During their meeting held on Sunday, Muttaqi and Bakheet discussed the efforts made by the OIC concerning the implementation of a resolution by an OIC extraordinary session […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials said on Monday that the US wants to impose its political demands on the new government of Afghanistan. Suhail Shaheen, IEA’s designated envoy to the UN, told Ariana News that the West wants “their people” to be included in the IEA government. “First their consideration is political and they want to impose their political […]

Taking a page out of the Afghan Taliban playbook, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Movement of Pakistani Taliban, TTP) has urged America not to support Pakistan against the TTP, saying the TTP’s sole target is Pakistan, and it has nothing to do with other countries, according to a TTP statement released in Urdu, English, and Pashtu. The Afghan Taliban used this […]

Inspired by the Afghan Taliban, the resurgent Pakistani jihadi organization Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Movement of Pakistani Taliban, TTP) has, for the first time, announced appointments in their organizational structure, virtually creating a parallel system of government. The TTP’s new moves include creating Wilayats (“provinces”) on the lines of the Islamic Emirate (Afghan Taliban) and appointing governors. The appointment of the […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will speak to Vladimir Putin by phone on Sunday to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine, spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said, adding Turkey was ready to help resolve the crisis, Reuters reported. NATO member Turkey shares a maritime border with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea and has good ties to both, but opposes sanctions on Moscow. […]

More than 410,000 Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter by China’s Global Times newspaper urging the United States to return assets in full to Afghans immediately and unconditionally. This comes after US President Joe Biden moved to divert $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets for humanitarian assistance and to the families of 9/11 victims. China has repeatedly slammed US […]

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and a longtime leader of the so-called Haqqani network with a US bounty on his head, has appeared in front of the media for the first time. Haqqani, nicknamed Khalifa, made the rare public appearance during a ceremony that saw the graduation of hundreds of police officers […]

At least 30 worshipers were in killed more than 50 have been injured in a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at a mosque in Qissa Khwani bazaar in the Kocha Risaldar area, Peshawar, Dawn News reported that teams have rushed the injured to Lady Reading Hospital, while residents and people of the then neighbourhood also helped in transporting the injured […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Thursday called on the nation to voluntarily hand over weapons and government assets to security forces. This comes amid the IEA’s operation in Kabul and other nearby provinces to clamp down on criminals, kidnappers and other lawbreakers. In a statement on Thursday, the IEA said: “The Islamic Emirate urges all citizens who possess […]