The United States military is accountable for killing innocent Afghan civilians through indiscriminate drone strike, and the U.S. government should compensate the families of the victims, said a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [IEA] on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The statement came following the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision on Monday that no military personnel involved in a drone […]

On November 29, Sedra, the daughter of a physician, Mohammad Dawod Rateb, was abducted in an area close to Balhika private school in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital city of Balkh Province. As reported on December 3, she was subsequently rescued by Taliban forces. On November 18, Psychiatrist Mohamed Nader Alemi’s dead body, bearing marks of torture, was found by the side […]

The takeover of Kabul by Taliban 2.0 has got Indian development cooperation circles worried. This was evident from the urgency with which India helmed the Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan. Another relevant example would be the meeting between the Indian delegation and the Taliban’s representatives on the sidelines of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan. Although New Delhi’s imprint […]

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and they seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview. Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also told The Associated […]

At least one person was killed and two others wounded in an explosion in Kabul on Tuesday. The ministry of interior has confirmed that a civilian was killed in the explosion. The incident took place at around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in the Tank-e-Logar area of Kabul’s PD8, a spokesman for the ministry of interior confirmed. He said two other civilians […]

Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has called on the United States to lift its sanctions against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and said they seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of desperate Afghans. Muttaqi also told the Associated Press that his government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials on Tuesday banned the use of foreign currencies for commercial transactions in the country in a bid to stabilize the plummeting national currency, the Afghani (AFN). Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister, who is heading up a commission to curb the currency’s freefall, said at a press conference that the AFN would stabilize […]

Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health in Afghanistan, the World Bank said as it seeks to help a country facing famine and economic collapse. The World Bank-administered Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund will this year give $180 million to WFP to […]

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has pledged $100 million of UK emergency aid to support 1.8 million Afghans. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Truss announced the move at the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting in Liverpool on Saturday during a G7 ministers meeting on the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Sunday welcomed Washington’s decision to allow the transfer of personal remittances to Afghanistan. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs, tweeted that the US Treasury Department had issued a public authorization allowing Afghans living in the United States to send money to their families through legal money transferring and […]