Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), reassured neighboring countries on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s soil will not be used against any country and in turn asked the international community to not interfere in the country’s internal affairs. In a statement to mark Eid-ul-Adha, Akhundaza said: “We fully assure the neighboring countries and the world […]

The Awami National Party (ANP) asked the government to raise the issue of revival of Pak-Afghan trade at a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI). ANP’s parliamentary leader in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Sardar Hussain Babak issued the call in a statement on Monday. Babak said KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, being a member of CCI, should raise the […]

The United States and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban concluded a two-day meeting in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, the first in-person talks between the two sides in more than three months. Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi led their respective delegations at the negotiating table.

The Taliban’s supreme leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has once again warned foreigners not to interfere in Afghanistan during a rare speech at a gathering of Islamic clerics in Kabul on Friday, according to state media. The reclusive leader told the conference that Afghanistan “cannot develop without being independent,” according to state-run Bakhtar News Agency. “Thank God, we are now an […]

The Taliban has declared the Islamic State affiliate ISIS-K a corrupt “sect” and forbidden Afghans from contact with it. “We call out to the nation that the seditious phenomenon called ISIS-K is void of today’s age and a false sect that spreads corruption in our Islamic country. It is forbidden to have any kind of help or relationship with them,” […]

Three days ago, a joint government and private sector delegation led by Nooruddin Azizi, acting minister of commerce and industry, arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, for talks with Uzbek officials on expanding trade, facilitating transit and solving problems of Afghan businessmen. The Afghan delegation said that in their meetings with the Uzbek authorities, detailed discussions were held on […]

A senior official of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has said that the financial crisis is the main reason for girls’ schools being closed. “I think the main issue is the economic problem… all our funds are frozen outside the country,” Qalandar Ebad, the acting health minister, said in an interview with the BBC. He said that funds are […]

Barter is the oldest form of commerce between the two parties without using money in the transaction. This system has been practiced for centuries and long before money was introduced. After the fall of Kabul and US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is worsening. Pakistan in not only providing humanitarian and economic assistance to Afghanistan […]

Dozens of Afghan students met with the acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday in Kabul and shared their concerns with him, the foreign ministry said. Hafiz Zia Ahmad, Deputy Spokesman and Assistant Director of Public Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said dozens of students attended the meeting and asked […]

The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has received earthquake relief supplies donated by the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC). A handover ceremony was held on Sunday at the ARCS complex in Kabul and was attended by Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu and Mawlavi Matiul Haq Khalis, president of the ARCS. Wang said China has done its best to […]