Pakistan has paid a huge price of the US-led war on terror that saw over 80,000 Pakistanis martyred After the US withdrawal, Afghanistan has become a hub of terrorist organisations capable of attacking Europe, Asia and the US, thereby threating regional and international peace. Afghanistan has a history of creating problems for Pakistan since 1947 by raising the so-called issue […]

Following the concerns over terrorist threats from Afghanistan, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says in a report that terrorist threats against US interests from Afghanistan and Pakistan are steadily rising. The report stated that “Afghanistan presents growing space for terrorist groups compared to the period before the U.S. withdrawal.” “ISIS-K [Daesh] presents a rising threat with reach beyond […]

Business cannot be the economy’s savior, but it can help stabilize the situation with support from donors and the Taliban. Three years after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the country’s economy remains in a dismal state marked by depression-level price deflation, high unemployment and a collapse of GDP. Still, while the bad news for Afghans is well known, less […]

The Islamic Emirate’s Miynister of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, says there is no gap between the current system and the people and that cooperation with the Islamic system is the people’s Sharia duty, the ministry said in a statement. At a gathering in Kabul, Hanafi said: “This Islamic system is the people’s system, the […]

Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani has said in a meeting with a delegation from Malaysia in Kabul that Malaysia is an advanced country and that Afghanistan should use is experiences. According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, Haqqani, in the meeting on Thursday, emphasized that security is ensured in Afghanistan and unity among Afghans has been […]

Acting Minister of National Defense Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid has said that no destructive groups including Daesh have physical presence in Afghanistan, adding the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will not allow anyone to pose threat to any country in the region from the Afghan soil. Mujahid made the remarks in a meeting with a delegation from Malaysia in Kabul on […]

A new U.S. military review identified the bomber for the first time and found that the 2021 deadly attack was not preventable. The man who detonated a bomb outside the Kabul airport in August 2021, killing 170 Afghans and 13 American service members, was an Islamic State operative who had been held in a coalition detention facility in Afghanistan but […]

A supplemental review of the original investigation into the 2021 suicide bombing attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians at Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate has reaffirmed the military’s findings of the initial investigation and identifies the attacker. Ordered by U.S. Army Central Command in September 2023, the results of the two-year supplemental review […]

Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, the political deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), met with a number of representatives and elders of the Union of Afghans living in Europe who are in Kabul at the moment. The group, representing the Union of Afghans living in Germany, UK, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Turkey, Norway as well as the United Arab […]

Former Jihadi leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has criticized the United States for patrolling Afghanistan’s airspace with drones. Hekmatyar said in a speech Tuesday that any form of American presence in Afghanistan is unacceptable. “Afghanistan’s airspace is under occupation. Expressing this issue is our religious responsibility. We have sacrificed the most for freedom. We do not accept any presence of America. We […]