In late January, the IMF released its update on the outlook for the world economy. It downgraded its estimate for global growth in 2022 to 4.4 per cent from 4.9 per cent last October. Against this background, India was a striking outlier. It was not just the country with the highest anticipated growth in 2022, 9.0 per cent for India’s […]

People In US Must Recognize The Suffering Their Country Continues Inflicting In Afghanistan During visits to Kabul, Afghanistan, over the past decade, I particularly relished lingering over breakfasts on chilly winter mornings with my young hosts who were on their winter break from school. Seated on the floor, wearing coats and hats and draped with blankets, we’d sip piping hot […]

India has been a valuable partner of Afghanistan and its people over the decades, says an Afghan diplomat. Ambassador Farid Mamundzay hailed Indo-Afghan friendship while addressing an event in New Delhi on Wednesday. Supported by the India-Afghanistan Foundation, the Gandhi-Bacha Khan week is currently being celebrated. ANI news agency quoted the envoy as commending robust people-to-people contacts between the two […]

Four security personnel were injured when their pick up vehicle overturned in the Badpakh district of eastern Laghman province on Thursday, officials said. A spokesman for the Laghman governor, Salahuddin Zahid, confirmed the incident to Pajhwok Afghan News, saying four security personnel were injured when their vehicle overturned at around 10am. But he did not give further details. Abdul Wali, […]

Observers saw the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last year as a strategic victory for neighboring Pakistan after years of frosty relations between Islamabad and the Western-backed government in Kabul that collapsed last August. Security concerns along the two nations’ border have since complicated the picture. Many Pakistanis celebrated the Taliban’s return to power, including Prime Minister Imran Khan, who declared […]

German security services are bracing themselves for the possibility of extremists in Europe travelling to Afghanistan to fight or train with Al Qaeda. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, said the Taliban’s return to power had made Afghanistan a potential focal point for extremists around the world. In a speech in London, he also raised the concern […]

A special charity train carrying 750 tons of emergency goods from Turkey to Afghanistan reached its destination on Monday. The train was received in a ceremony by Turkey’s Ambassador Cihad Erginay and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials in the northwestern Herat province, according to the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, Reuters reported. The aid will be distributed in all […]

The United States said on Monday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million each for information leading to the identification or location of ISIS-K (Daesh) leader Sanaullah Ghafari and for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for a deadly attack at Kabul airport in August last year. The Islamic State-Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K (Daesh), is […]

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, acting defense minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), has called on the Ulema to help reform and organize a national army. Yaqoob, in a meeting with the Ulema, urged clerics to support the current political system and help organize IEA forces. “Now the Islamic political system is in place we need your cooperation to organize […]

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on the international community to help the people of Afghanistan and warned that the ongoing humanitarian crisis could affect half of the country’s population. In an interview with China’s state-owned CGTN media outlet, Khan warned that the ongoing humanitarian crisis is getting worse and that it is threatening about half of all Afghans. […]