The UN envoy for Afghanistan says the country is “ on the point of a philanthropic catastrophe”, prompting the transnational community to find ways to give fiscal support to the Afghan people, who “ feel abandoned”. Deborah Lyons said an estimated 60 percent of Afghanistan’s 38 million people are facing extremity situations of hunger in […]
Continue ReadingAfghan FM confirms Kabul ‘mediating’ talks between Pakistan, TTP
The Taliban is acting as a middleman between the Pakistani government and the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister has said. In an interview to the BBC’s Urdu service on Sunday, Amir Khan Muttaqi said the Afghan Taliban had stepped in at the “ request” of both parties. No final […]
Continue ReadingTaliban’s growing proximity with China is an opportunity ISKP trying to leverage
Still, they’ve a host of challenges gaping at them, If the Taliban allowed their coming to power was going to be as smooth as it was during the first time. The world has changed a lot since 1996. For starters, there wasn’t important technology back also. Now, the Taliban must deal with the saturation of […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan dispatches: major Afghan bank faces failure as banking system wobbles under Taliban
Law scholars and attorneys in Afghanistan are filing reports with Magistrate on the situation there after the Taliban preemption. Then, a Staff Pressman for Magistrate in Kabul commentary on reports of a pending bank failure that would be the first since the Taliban took power in August. For sequestration and security reasons, we’re withholding our […]
Continue ReadingHow an Afghan reporter was left to the Taliban by the Foreign Office
Told he was cleared to travel with his family to the UK, he was also one of the numerous left behind as the promised help from the FCDO failed to materialise. A Panjshiri intelligencer, Fahim (not his real name) has not slept in the same house for further two nights in a row since the […]
Continue ReadingDead or alive? On the trail of Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada
When the Taliban overran Kabul inmid-August, seizing power for the alternate time, the times-old riddle over the whereabouts of the movement’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada strengthened further. Whether the senior clergyperson is alive or dead is commodity numerous Afghans are uncertain about, and indeed the most devoted judges have dubieties about who’s really leading the […]
Continue ReadingWeapons Looted By Taliban Can Be Smuggled Into India, Border Force Warns
Munitions pillaged by the Taliban in Afghanistan can get smuggled into India and used in terror- related conditioning, Director General of Border Security Force said moment, admitting pitfalls expiring from Afghanistan for the first time. “It’s a cause of solicitude since the Taliban skeleton is now free and they’ve munitions. We’re alert and are in […]
Continue ReadingSupporting Afghan Taliban may be counterproductive, seminar told
Speakers stated this without mincing words at a session, titled “Chaos in Afghanistan and Talking to Banned Organisations”, at the Asma Jahangir Conference on Saturday. The context of the ongoing talks between Islamabad and the TTP and a deal Former senator Afrasiab Khattak, MNA Mohsin Dawar and Samina Ahmed (project director for South Asia and senior Asia adviser […]
Continue ReadingTaliban bans the use of foreign currency across Afghanistan
The Taliban has blazoned a complete ban on the use of foreign currency in Afghanistan, a move certain to beget farther dislocation to an frugality pushed to the point of collapse by the abrupt pullout of transnational support in the wake of the group’s preemption of the country. The surprise advertisement on Tuesday came hours […]
Continue ReadingLife after Afghanistan: The soccer player
As a teen, Mohammad Tamim Solhadost was obsessed with soccer. His family could n’t go assignments, so he turned to YouTube. “ It was just me and the wall,” said the 23 time old, ignoring about hours upon hours he’d spend at his nonage home in Kabul, Afghanistan, rehearsing his soccer chops and likely driving […]
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