Category: South East Asia

IEA’s foreign ministry summons Pakistan’s charge d’affaires over airstrike

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires over Islamabad’s airstrike inside Afghanistan in the early hours of Monday morning. The ministry presented the charge d’affaires with a letter of protest and advised the new civilian government to curb anti-Afghanistan actions and to not ‘complicate’ relations between the two Muslim countries. […]

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Border forces target military posts along Durand Line in response to airstrikes

The Ministry of National Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said Monday morning that border forces targeted Pakistan “military centers” along the Durand Line in response to airstrikes against civilian homes in Paktika and Khost provinces. In the early hours of Monday morning, Pakistan carried out airstrikes inside Afghanistan, hitting residential houses in Spera district in Khost and […]

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Islamabad claims ‘terrorism’ being conducted mostly from Afghanistan

Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Sunday that “terrorism” in the South Asian country was being conducted mostly from Afghanistan. This comes a day after militants killed seven Pakistan Army soldiers in Waziristan in the northwest of the country. Pakistan has repeatedly accused the Islamic Emirate of not cracking down on militant groups in Afghanistan. However, the Islamic […]

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IEA warns Pakistan against repeating airstrikes which left 8 dead

The Islamic Emirate said Monday that Pakistan had carried out airstrikes in the early hours of the morning, which left eight people dead in Paktika and Khost provinces. According to a statement issued by the IEA, the airstrikes took place at about 3am in the Barmal district in Khost province and Sepira district in Paktika province. Six people were killed […]

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Pakistani Fighter Planes Bomb ‘Terrorist Sanctuaries’ in Afghanistan

Pakistan confirmed Monday that its military had carried out “intelligence-based” aerial strikes inside Afghanistan to punish “terrorists” responsible for killing hundreds of civilians and security forces in cross-border raids. A foreign ministry statement said the counterterrorism operation had targeted fugitive commanders allied with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a globally designated terrorist organization operating out of Afghan sanctuaries. Afghanistan’s Taliban government […]

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Taliban set sights on Iranian port for access to international markets

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk, began at sunrise Tuesday in much of Asia, a day after many Muslims in the Middle East began their fasts. In the Muslim lunar calendar, months begin only when the new moon is sighted, which can lead to variations of a day or two. Middle Eastern […]

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Afghanistan: Persistent Darkness – Analysis

Puncturing the euphoria created a by section of experts that Taliban 2.0 would be strikingly different from the Taliban regime of 1996-2001, and that things would change for the better in war-ravaged Afghanistan, since their return to power in Kabul in August 2021, the Taliban has kept civilians, especially women and its adversaries, in agony. On March 8, 2024, the […]

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Terror, Terrorism And The Search For Destructive Forms Of Reparative Justice – Analysis

The occurrence of a terror attack, whose toll of dead and injured represents an irreparable human loss and a gross human rights violation, should encourage everyone, from the media to government representatives, to refrain from an ideological reading of the facts, and to examine instead the circumstances, the reasons and the motives behind it, in order to understand the root […]

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Pakistani military, Afghan Taliban exchange fire along the border

The Afghan Taliban launched attacks across the border into Pakistan on Monday in response to Pakistani military airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan. The Pakistani military, which helped the Afghan Taliban seize control of the country, targeted members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which is sheltered and supported by the Afghan Taliban and is a a close ally of […]

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Pourquoi le yuan ne devient-il pas une véritable monnaie mondiale ?

La Chine voit les écueils sur lesquels l’Amérique a buté avec son dollar. Nous avons plusieurs fois abordé la question du Yuan par rapport au dollar mais cet article traduit par notre ami Xuan insiste sur l’aspect totalement original de la politique chinoise qui ne veut pas remplacer les États-Unis en tant que nouveau leader. La mondialisation impérialiste de «l’Occident […]

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