Ajit Doval, India’s National Security Advisor (NSA), participated in the 5th Moscow Format Meeting on Afghanistan on Wednesday and said India would never abandon Afghanistan. Security chiefs from India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were invited by Russia to the Moscow Format Meeting to discuss various Afghanistan-related topics, including security and the humanitarian crisis. Doval said in […]
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UNHCR and Uzbekistan provide winter assistance for Afghanistan
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, with the support of the Government of Uzbekistan, has sent 12 trucks with over 48,000 blankets through the International Multifunctional Transport and Logistics Hub in Termez, Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan to provide life-saving assistance to forcibly displaced persons and other vulnerable people in Afghanistan during the harsh winter. The consignments were dispatched from UNHCR’s Regional Humanitarian […]
Read more ›IEA tightens currency controls after dollar smuggling report
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) imposed fresh restrictions on people carrying foreign currency out of Afghanistan, in a rare directive from the prime minister’s office. The restrictions were imposed after a report published in Bloomberg stated that millions of dollars were being smuggled into the country each day from Pakistan. Tuesday’s order from Mullah Mohammad Hassan’s office spelled out […]
Read more ›Dollars Smuggled From Pakistan Provide Lifeline for the Taliban
Millions of dollars are being smuggled into Afghanistan from Pakistan every day, providing some support for the squeezed economy after the US and Europe denied the Taliban regime access to billions in foreign reserves. For Islamabad, the outflows are exacerbating a rapidly developing economic crisis. Traders and smugglers are bringing as much as $5 million across the border daily, according […]
Read more ›Dr. Mohamed Al-Sagheer, Head Of Muslim Scholars’ Delegation To Afghanistan: The U.S. Sponsored Drug Cultivation And ISIS In Afghanistan; When Driven Out By The Taliban, It Left Millions Of Addicts, Stole $9 Billion From The Afghan People
On January 10, 2023, a video was posted to the RTA Pashto channel on YouTube in which the head of a Muslim scholars’ delegation visiting the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Egyptian Islamist scholar Dr. Mohamed Al-Sagheer said that after “defeating” the U.S., the Taliban has effectively prevented the cultivation of drugs in Afghanistan. He said that the American “occupation” had […]
Read more ›Ties to Kabul Bombing Put ISIS Leader in Somalia in U.S. Cross Hairs
Bilal al-Sudani’s financing of the ISIS branch in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. troops in 2021 elevated him on U.S. kill-or-capture lists. Bilal al-Sudani was no stranger to American counterterrorism officials. Before joining the Islamic State affiliate in Somalia, Mr. al-Sudani was subjected to punitive sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2012 for his involvement with Al Shabab, Al […]
Read more ›Afghanistan’s central bank to auction $17 million this week
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) has announced that it will auction $17 million on Wednesday as part of the efforts to stabilize the value of the Afghan currency against foreign currencies. In a series of tweets on Monday, the Central Bank of Afghanistan asked qualified private banks and exchange companies to participate in the auction. The winners of the auction are […]
Read more ›Russia has no plans to close its embassy in Afghanistan, says envoy
Russia has no plans to close its diplomatic mission in Kabul, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department Zamir Kabulov told TASS on Monday. Earlier, the Al-Arabiya TV channel reported that the authorities of several Arab and Western countries decided to close their diplomatic missions in Kabul because of security threats. “Such thoughts have not even occurred,” Kabulov […]
Read more ›Otunbayeva meets acting head of TVET in Kabul
The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) emphasized the need for the inclusion of women and girls in vocational education on Monday in a meeting with Ghulam Haider Shahamat, acting head of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). In this meeting, Roza Otunbayeva said that vocational training is necessary for the economic development of Afghanistan and […]
Read more ›Qatari envoy meets with Muttaqi, Haqqani and Agha in Kabul
Qatar’s Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counterterrorism and Mediation in Conflict Resolution Mutlaq bin Majed Al Qahtani met with a number of senior Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials on Sunday in Kabul for talks on the current situation in the country. The Qatari envoy met with IEA Foreign Affairs Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi; Minister of […]
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