With the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rapid victory of the Taliban, some observers have pronounced the commencement of a new Chinese-led regional order. China, they say, will sweep in and develop road and rail infrastructure to extract Afghanistan’s vast mineral and rare earth wealth and thereby emerge as the ultimate winner of America’s longest war. Such projections belie […]

Is India Bangladesh’s true friend and well wisher? It is a question of the century. How India and Bangladesh can become a real friend in South Asia? India and Bangladesh can show the world how neighbouring countries can become all-weather friends. Bangladesh-India bilateral relations are a role model in the world in terms of relations among neighboring countries. They are […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials said on Sunday that investment opportunities have been provided for all foreign investors, especially for Chinese companies. Balil Karimi, the deputy spokesman for the IEA, said the role China can play in Afghanistan is important. “China is an important and strong country. China’s role in Afghanistan is very important. IEA needs all countries’ economic […]

Observers saw the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last year as a strategic victory for neighboring Pakistan after years of frosty relations between Islamabad and the Western-backed government in Kabul that collapsed last August. Security concerns along the two nations’ border have since complicated the picture. Many Pakistanis celebrated the Taliban’s return to power, including Prime Minister Imran Khan, who declared […]

German security services are bracing themselves for the possibility of extremists in Europe travelling to Afghanistan to fight or train with Al Qaeda. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, said the Taliban’s return to power had made Afghanistan a potential focal point for extremists around the world. In a speech in London, he also raised the concern […]

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, acting defense minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), has called on the Ulema to help reform and organize a national army. Yaqoob, in a meeting with the Ulema, urged clerics to support the current political system and help organize IEA forces. “Now the Islamic political system is in place we need your cooperation to organize […]

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on the international community to help the people of Afghanistan and warned that the ongoing humanitarian crisis could affect half of the country’s population. In an interview with China’s state-owned CGTN media outlet, Khan warned that the ongoing humanitarian crisis is getting worse and that it is threatening about half of all Afghans. […]

Assailants threw a hand grenade at a bus station in volatile southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing a passerby and wounding two others, police said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region. The attack happened in Dera Murad Jamali, a town in Baluchistan province, said Aziz Baloch, an area police official. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. It […]

Militants firing from inside Afghanistan killed at least five Pakistani soldiers at a border post in northwestern Kurram district on Sunday, the Pakistan military said, the second such attack since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) came into power in August. The Pakistan army said it retaliated, causing heavy casualties, but independent confirmation was not immediately possible because the districts […]

The former head of the UK’s armed forces, General Sir David Richards, has called on Western countries to formally recognise the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). Richards, the UK Chief of Defence Staff from 2010 to 2013, said it was time to accept that the war in Afghanistan had been lost and work with the IEA, BBC reported on Monday. […]