The UN secretary-general’s new deputy special representative (political) for Afghanistan has arrived in Kabul. On 17 June 2022, António Guterres, the UN chief, appointed Markus Potzel of Germany as his new DSR for Afghanistan. A statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAM) said Potzel arrived in Kabul on July 3. Potzel brings to the position more than […]

Afghan religious leader Khwaja Sayyad Chishti, also known as Sufi Baba, has been shot dead in India’s Maharashtra state, a media report said on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Muslim community leader from Afghanistan was shot dead by a group of four unidentified attackers in the Yeola town of Nashik district on Tuesday, NDTV quoted police as saying. Motive behind the murder […]

Mawlavi Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, Afghanistan’s acting minister of defense, arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for a two day visit. Mujahid is expected to discuss a number of issues with Qatari authorities. This is his first trip abroad after being appointed to the post following the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) takeover in August last year. Mohammad Naeem Wardak, the spokesman […]

Mawlavi Abdulsalam Hanafi, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) acting deputy prime minister, on Wednesday met with Markus Potzel, the new head of the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) in Kabul. At the meeting, Hanafi wished Potzel well in his new position and said: “Since you have enough experience in Afghanistan, you can be a good partner for the Afghan […]

Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), reassured neighboring countries on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s soil will not be used against any country and in turn asked the international community to not interfere in the country’s internal affairs. In a statement to mark Eid-ul-Adha, Akhundaza said: “We fully assure the neighboring countries and the world […]

The Awami National Party (ANP) asked the government to raise the issue of revival of Pak-Afghan trade at a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI). ANP’s parliamentary leader in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Sardar Hussain Babak issued the call in a statement on Monday. Babak said KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, being a member of CCI, should raise the […]

The United States and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban concluded a two-day meeting in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, the first in-person talks between the two sides in more than three months. Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi led their respective delegations at the negotiating table.

The Taliban’s supreme leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has once again warned foreigners not to interfere in Afghanistan during a rare speech at a gathering of Islamic clerics in Kabul on Friday, according to state media. The reclusive leader told the conference that Afghanistan “cannot develop without being independent,” according to state-run Bakhtar News Agency. “Thank God, we are now an […]

The Taliban has declared the Islamic State affiliate ISIS-K a corrupt “sect” and forbidden Afghans from contact with it. “We call out to the nation that the seditious phenomenon called ISIS-K is void of today’s age and a false sect that spreads corruption in our Islamic country. It is forbidden to have any kind of help or relationship with them,” […]

Three days ago, a joint government and private sector delegation led by Nooruddin Azizi, acting minister of commerce and industry, arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, for talks with Uzbek officials on expanding trade, facilitating transit and solving problems of Afghan businessmen. The Afghan delegation said that in their meetings with the Uzbek authorities, detailed discussions were held on […]