Another UN-mediated international meeting of special envoys on Afghanistan could take place in the foreseeable future, Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special envoy to Afghanistan, has said. “We are planning a range of broad international events on Afghanistan. We and our regional partners remember that UN Secretary General [Antonio] Guterres planned to gather special envoys, just as he did, you will remember, […]

Turkmenistan’s new consul general in Herat has submitted his letter of credentials to Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. Batyr Yolov, submitted his credentials on Tuesday to Muttaqi in Kabul. Foreign ministry of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), says that at the event, which was attended by the Ambassador of Turkmenistan Khawaja Awadov, Muttaqi welcomed the new consul general of […]

Naqibullah Dehqanzada, acting head of the Afghan consulate in Khorog of Tajikistan, stated that the consulate operates under the direct support and supervision of the Islamic Emirate’s foreign ministry. Dehqanzada issued a statement to confirm the Afghan consulate’s connection with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) after the ambassador of the previous government to Tajikistan tore up the appointment of […]

Pakistan will begin the process of returning “registered refugees” to their home countries once it completes the deportation of all illegal immigrants in the country, Balochistan’s acting Minister for Information Jan Achakzai said on Thursday, amid nationwide sweeps to round up foreigners staying illegally in the South Asian country. “So far, 80,000 immigrants from Balochistan have left Pakistan. After this, […]

On October 31, 2023, Taliban cadres detained and assaulted three civilians – Wasi, Idris, and Danish – during a seven-hour captivity in the Dara District of Panjsher Province. On October 27, 2023, an unnamed civilian was killed after being detained by the Taliban in one of its detention centres in Security Zone 14 of Kandahar Province. On October 25, 2023, […]

Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday sought to reassure thousands of Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United States that they won’t be deported as part of his government’s widely criticized crackdown on undocumented migrants in the country. Islamabad has launched a crackdown on illegal migration, saying any unregistered foreign national and migrant lacking proper documentation would face arrest […]

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital late on Tuesday that killed at least seven people. The Sunni militant group said its members detonated an explosive device on the bus carrying Shiite Muslims. Twenty others were wounded in the attack in Kabul’s western Shiite neighborhood of Dashti Barchi, according to police spokesman Khalid […]

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Economic Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), met with Iran’s Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian on Monday to discuss a number of issues including that relating to water management. In addition to this, the two officials also discussed the need for Iran’s technical cooperation in the field of electricity production in Afghanistan, […]

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) says that the expulsion of immigrants from Pakistan is Islamabad’s way of humiliating Kabul. Amir Khan Muttaqi said despite Kabul having shared its concerns about the forced deportation of migrants with military leaders and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, no action to suspend the […]

At least seven people were killed and 20 others wounded when an explosion happened in capital Kabul on Tuesday, police said. The blast happened in a commuter bus in Dasht-e-Barchi area of the city, Khalid Zadran, the city’s police spokesman, said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. It comes nearly two weeks after a blast hit […]