Khalid Payenda told the BBC that utmost of the colors and police on the government’s books didn’t live. He said phantom help were added to sanctioned lists so that generals could pocket their stipend. The Taliban fleetly seized control of Afghanistan in August, as US forces withdrew after 20 times in the country. Mr Payenda, […]
Continue ReadingWhen the Taliban Are in Your Bedroom
As fortified Taliban audited the New York Times office in Kabul, they were attended by a intelligencer who used to be aU.S. Marine. The print of him in livery was plain for all to see, and consider. KABUL, Afghanistan — When the Taliban are in your bedroom and there’s a snap of you on the wall holding an American flag, a rifle and dressed like a recruiting commercial for the Marines, you have to keep it together. Also there’s the kitschy mug on your office that you picked up from a shop just as Bagram Air Base closed in July. It reads, […]
Continue ReadingBiden administration invites Taiwan to its Summit for Democracy
The Biden administration has invited Taiwan to its”Summit for Democracy” coming month, according to a list of actors published on November 23, a move probably to rankle China, which views the democratically governed islet as its home. The first-of-its- kind gathering is a test of President Joe Biden’s assertion, blazoned in his first foreign policy […]
Continue ReadingUS special envoy for Afghanistan to travel to Doha next week for talks with Taliban
US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West is set to visit Qatar coming week to hold addresses with the Taliban. I can confirm that coming week Special Representative for Afghanistan Tom West will return to Doha for two weeks of meetings with Taliban leaders there,”State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said in a press briefing on […]
Continue ReadingTaliban express their intention to build their own Air Force in Afghanistan
The Taliban in Afghanistan have now expressed their intention to make their own Air Force two months after landing the country in a lightning blitz, reported news agency ANI, citing a news piece published in knewz. The Taliban also reportedly want to bolster force and skillset among its species, said the report further. “We’re trying […]
Continue ReadingNow silent in the Taliban’s Afghanistan, a Kabul cinema awaits its fate
The cool 1960s- style lines of the Ariana Cinema’s marquee stand out over a business- congested cloverleaf in town Kabul. For decades, the major cinema has entertained Afghans and borne substantiation to Afghanistan’s wars, expedients and artistic shifts. Now the pergola is stripped of the bills of Bollywood pictures and American action films that used […]
Continue ReadingTaliban rule sparks hopes of peace in rural Afghanistan
In the townlets that formerly bore the mass of Afghanistan’s front- line fighting, the Taliban palm has broken a cycle of air attacks, gun battles and sepultures. The group’s preemption of Kabul and the unforeseen collapse in August of the United States- backed government shocked the world and reared the freedoms of Afghans, which were […]
Continue ReadingIn Washington, the last employees at the Afghan Embassy work until the lights go off
For further than 70 times, the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington,D.C., has held down the corner lot in a neighborhood of grand delegacies. With its giant black, red and green flag, lush landscaping and stately slipup and gravestone, it’s hard to tell the democracy has fallen. Inside however, it’s clear Afghanistan is now a country […]
Continue ReadingRussian S-400 air defence systems begin arriving in India, US threat of CAATSA sanctions looms
New Delhi: Delivery of the Russian Triumf S-400 Air Defense System to India has begun, with an agreement of $ 5.2 billion inwaking by the Government of Narendra Modi. Some parts of the system have reached the country, printers have learned. However, delivery brought them US threats that impose sanctions under American enemies against Actions […]
Continue ReadingKim Jong Un visits ‘model’ city, first public outing in more than a month
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a new megacity being erected near the border with China, which he said epitomises his country’s “ iron will” to achieve substance in the face of transnational insulation and pressure, in his first public appearance in further than a month. Korean Central News Agency said on Tuesday that […]
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