Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon has again expressed concern over security threats posed by Afghanistan to the region and has called for a “security belt” to be built around the country. Addressing delegates attending an International and Regional Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism conference on Tuesday in Dushanbe, Rahmon said “the transfer of terrorist fighters from the war-torn […]

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, first deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), on Wednesday admitted that the government has not done any fundamental economic work that would satisfy people. Baradar said this at the 27th autumn exhibition of agricultural products in Badam Bagh area of Kabul. He said that the environment is conducive to investment in Afghanistan, […]

On October 2, 2022, Shamshad News, the popular Pashtu-language television channel in Afghanistan, published a report quoting Afghan political experts as saying that the U.S. and other Western countries are planning to bring former Afghan warlords back into power in Kabul to serve their interests. Currently, Afghanistan is ruled by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban jihadi organization which […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) supreme leader, Mawlavi Hebatullah Akhundzada, says that all rules and regulations that were being implemented over the last two decades in the country will be reviewed by religious scholars. In a voice message published recently, the supreme leader of the IEA has emphasized that all regulations and rules that are in conflict with the […]

The Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Friday decided on joint measures by member countries to counter threats posed by international terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan, an Indian official said. The decision was taken at a meeting of the council of RATS that was hosted by India in New Delhi. The meeting was attended by […]

The US State Department’s spokesman said that gaining legitimacy and global support will depend on the conduct of the new authorities, including that regarding rights of girls and women. The US State Department said there is consensus on this issue among all members of the international community. “As long as the Taliban (Islamic Emirate) repress the women and girls of […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Afghanistan remains one of the most serious security challenges in the region. Speaking at the sixth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Astana in Kazakhstan on Thursday, he said despite two decades of US and NATO presence, Afghanistan has been unable to address terrorist threats. He mentioned the attack […]

The Taliban said Wednesday there is enough security across Afghanistan to restart major economic projects that stopped due to decades of war, despite a slew of attacks rocking the country since the group seized power more than a year ago. The Taliban have struggled in their transition from insurgency and warfare to governing amid an economic downturn and the international […]

Afghanistan, South Korea and Venezuela lost their bids on Tuesday to serve three-year terms on the UN Human Rights Council. With nearly all the 193-member states voting in the General Assembly, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania, South Africa, Sudan, and Vietnam were voted onto the 47-member Geneva-based rights body. Afghanistan lost its bid […]

The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Monday criticized the lack of international attention being paid to Afghanistan despite the suffering of the people. In a speech to EU ambassadors on Monday, Joseph Borrell told countries not to only look at the Ukrainian crisis. “Last year, everybody was talking about Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the big issue, remember in August [and] […]