A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO-RATS) started in New Delhi on Monday. Delegates from China, Pakistan and Russia are attending the event, which would continue until May 19, said a media report ANI reported the agenda for the SCO summit included the formation of a broad-based government in Afghanistan and humanitarian crisis there. In November […]

Tashkent will host a high-level international conference on Afghanistan at the end of July, Uzbekistan’s interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Norov announced. Norov said the key focus would be on security, political stability and the socio-economic development of the region. “As for Afghanistan, unfortunately, we are seeing a decrease in the attention of the international community to the situation […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has shown interest in buying oil and gas from Russia and continuing work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. Pakistan’s Business Standard reported that this comes after Russian energy giants like Gazprom have been hit by sanctions from the Western countries. However, Jamal Nasir Garwal, the IEA’s charge d’affaires in Moscow, has reaffirmed Afghanistan’s […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has urged the country’s neighbors to engage in bilateral talks with them in order to resolve common problems in a more coordinated way. A spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that domestic issues concern Afghans but countries concerned with Afghanistan’s political structure can advise the IEA, which will consider suggestions. However, he […]

Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan followed the disintegration of Earlier USSR in early 1990s and on account of its internal dissension, conflict and rivalry China remained in inactive position for a long time. On the other hand, Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan witnessed large-scale chaos, anarchy and instability in the country and Taliban, a terror militia group, taking benefit of the prevailing […]

The situation in Afghanistan was the focus of a telephone conversation between Tajik and Russian Presidents, Emomali Rakhmon and Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the telephone conversation between Putin and Rahmon was at the request of the Tajik president. “The presidents exchanged views on developments in Afghanistan, primarily in terms of […]

The international community could recognize the new government in Afghanistan once it has been recognized domestically, the European Union’s special envoy said on Thursday. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ariana News, Tomas Niklasson said the EU wants Afghanistan to develop in a positive way where it is not a threat to other countries and where the rights of its […]

At least three people were wounded in a blast inside a mosque in the Qambar Square locality of capital Kabul on Friday afternoon, an official said. The blast happened during Friday prayer inside Ayub Sabir Mosque in the Fifth Police District, Police Spokesperson Khalid Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan News. According to initial information three people were wounded in the blast, […]

Embers of resistance against the Taliban’s brutality are flaring up in Afghanistan, with clashes reported across the north and west of the country this week as armed resistance groups frontally take on the Islamists. Fighting has been reported in a number of provinces, including Panjshir, Ghazni, Herat, and others, as anti-Taliban groups make good on pledges of a “spring offensive” […]

Milad is packing his rucksack for the first time since his school in the west of Kabul was attacked by extremists last month. The 15-year-old pupil wasn’t hurt when the first bomb went off, but his father raced to the scene to try to find him, only to be killed in a second explosion. A poster commemorating Mir Hossein hangs […]