Qatar’s National Security Adviser Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Misnad reaffirmed Doha’s commitment to cooperate with Afghanistan in political, economic and social areas as he visited Kabul on Thursday. In his meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Al-Misnad expressed his satisfaction over the rule of IEA in Afghanistan, according to an IEA […]

Taliban, famously known for their brutalities and social restrictions on women (among other things) have once again emerged as a strong threat to Afghan women’s rights in the wake of the United States (US) withdrawal from Afghanistan. The establishment of the Taliban interim government on September 7, 2021, is deemed as a visible threat to women in Afghanistan. The group […]

The administration has no viable alternative to the arrangement as it tries to help Afghans who are seeking to resettle in the U.S. The U.S. government indirectly pays an airline controlled by the Taliban regime to ferry Afghan refugees out of Kabul, four people familiar with the matter told NBC News. Without U.S. troops or diplomats on the ground, the […]

Taliban forces have been locked for months in a shadowy on-again, off-again battle with opposition fighters based in the Panjshir Valley. Just a few hours’ drive north of Kabul, the province has long been an anti-Taliban stronghold and remains the only significant pocket of resistance to the group since the fall of Kabul last August. The Washington Post secured a […]

Germany will not recognise the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan as long as “dire” conditions under the Islamists persist, Germany’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, calling for a united international call on the Taliban for change. No foreign government has formally recognised the Taliban since they took over Afghanistan last August as U.S.-backed foreign forces withdrew after two […]

India’s security agencies are on alert after Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) issued a letter warning of suicide bombings in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to ‘fight for the honour of the Prophet’. The outfit established in 2014 has been increasing activities in the country The controversial remarks over Prophet Muhammad, which have earned the ire of the Islamic […]

Britain’s shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, arrived in Kabul on Wednesday to highlight the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Lammy is the first senior British politician to visit the country since the west’s chaotic withdrawal last August. He is being accompanied by Preet Gill, the shadow minister for international development. “The UK’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan […]

The Indian government is close to a decision on resuming a diplomatic presence in Afghanistan though the move will not amount to a recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regime in Kabul, Indian media reported Wednesday. The issue of India reopening its embassy in Kabul was discussed at meetings last week during JP Singh, the special envoy to Afghanistan’s […]

Unspecified millions of dollars remain unaccounted for some 10 months after the Afghan government disintegrated during the frantic withdrawal of U.S. personnel last summer, a government watchdog report issued Tuesday said. It remains unclear whether any stolen money was provided by the United States, John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said in the interim report. Some high-ranking […]

Every single child born and raised in Afghanistan had only known life in a country affected by war. Imagine, you turned 18 and all you know is conflict and war because this what you have witnessed since years. The fifth report of the UN Secretary-General on “Children and Armed Conflict in Afghanistan” released in 2021 against the backdrop of the […]