Insurgents in the Pakistani province of Balochistan attacked two military bases overnight, killing four soldiers while losing 15 of their own men, a top official said on Thursday, in the latest violence in the resource-rich region where China is investing. The attacks came hours before Prime Minister Imran Khan set off for the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in […]

The Afghan embassy in Moscow says it is functioning normally and does not need more employees, a media report said on Wednesday. “Currently, the embassy in Moscow is operating as usual. All its divisions operate on the full staff of experienced diplomats and specialists, like before,” Speaking to TASS news agency, the embassy press service claimed the Taliban, who did […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has discussed the situation in Afghanistan with his Dutch and Kyrgyz counterparts. Qureshi received a telephone call from Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra on Tuesday, reported the state-run news agency APP. He highlighted Pakistan’s facilitative role in the evacuation of foreign nationals from Afghanistan. The minister also spoke of Pakistan’s efforts to sensitize the international […]

Four thousands irrelevant people have been removed from security forces ranks, Daesh is not a future threat in Afghanistan and adequate number of female will be part of security forces in the future, a top government official said on Wednesday. Mufti LutfullahHakimi, Chief auditor at the Ministry of Defence and head of the Taliban Security Forces Contingent Inspection, during an […]

It’s approaching six months since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15. And in the months since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, neighboring China has taken a keen interest in the fate of the Central Asian country. The interest, in fact, predated the Taliban takeover. In late July, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and a nine-member […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Council of Ministers has issued a decree banning military personnel from entering amusement parks when in uniform, and carrying weapons. A spokesman for the IEA, Zabihullah Mujahid, said on Twitter: “Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are not allowed to enter amusement parks with weapons, military uniforms and vehicles.” “The Mujahideen are obliged to abide […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Wednesday said in a statement there was no truth in allegations that Afghanistan was in any way involved in the recent unrest in Kazakhstan. Some media outlets have quoted Russian officials as saying that some individuals from Afghanistan also took part in the protests in Kazakhstan, read the statement. “We strongly reject the […]

Zabihullah Mujahid, an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) spokesman and deputy minister of Information and Culture, said the IEA has studied the mass media law drafted under the previous government and have found no problem. Mujahid made the remarks on Wednesday at a meeting in Kabul of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and said that the IEA did not see […]

This is a series of three articles in which we aim to communicate our opinions on why it is a dire need for Pakistan to establish a cyber command and what strategic challenges such a command will need to tackle to be effective. In the first article, we sought to explain how cyberspace has now become a strategic competitive space. […]

On January 5, 2022, a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed in an encounter that took place between the Security Forces (SFs) and Maoists in the Pachrukhia Hill area under the Madanpur Block of Aurangabad District. Superintendent of Police (SP) Kantesh Kumar Mishra disclosed that the Maoists triggered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and opened fire, targeting SFs […]