Saudi Arabia has closed its embassy in Kabul over threats of possible attack and its 14 diplomats, including charge d’affaires Abdullah Fahd al-Kahlani, have moved to Islamabad. The shifting of the diplomats to Pakistan was confirmed by the highly-placed sources at the Foreign Office and Saudi mission on Tuesday. The Saudi embassy was closed on Friday last after threats of […]

The lines between the public and private have slowly become more and more blurred, with the hope being from the side of Right-Wing Ground activists that eventually it will be erased completely. We must take the mob activity that took place on January 21st, 2023 with the utmost seriousness as it displays to us the direction in which the nation […]

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said at a meeting with the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Afghanistan that the United Nations mission, and that of other aid agencies, was critical to the well being of the country. According to a statement released by Mawlavi Abdul Salam Hanafi’s office, […]

The Ministry of National Defense has announced that 20 military students who were sent to India for military training by the previous government have returned to the country. The ministry published a statement late Wednesday and said that based on the guidance of the leadership of the Ministry of National Defense and the coordination of the Department of Foreign Relations […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday described the situation in Afghanistan as “very difficult” but that Moscow remains in contact with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). Addressing a regional security meeting in Moscow, Putin said: “The situation is very difficult but we are doing everything for solutions to be found.” “We have established communication with the leadership of Afghanistan […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Just 20 days before [Russia’s invasion of Ukraine]…, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a statement that said their cooperation had “no limits… no forbidden zones.” “Russia and China are making common cause to better defend their respective interests and their authoritarian systems from Western pressure,” said Daniel Russel, a former Obama administration official handling Asia […]

Karachi police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two alleged terrorists of a banned outfit from the site Superhighway. As per police, two ‘terrorists’ associated with an outlawed outfit were arrested during an action at Superhighway in which officials also recovered four hand grenades and two Kalashnikovs The arrested were identified as Ahmedullah alias Bashir and Naeemtullah. The police after […]