A senior leader of Pakistani Tehreek-e-Taliban (Pakistan Taliban or TTP) has been killed in the East Afghanistan, said Pakistani security officials, as a process of peace talks between armed groups and the government remained stalled. Khalid Balti, also known by Nom de Guerre Muhammad Khorasani when he served as a group spokesman, was killed in […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan: Taliban leaders appeal for help as migrant crisis looms
Senior Taliban officials appealed on Saturday to help internationally fight the increasingly deep economic crisis that has triggered fears of other refugees from Afghanistan. Comments, at a special meeting to mark the United Nations International Migrant Day, underlined the urge of the new Islamic Taliban government to engage with the world community, four months after […]
Continue ReadingAustralia must admit its involvement in Afghanistan has been an abject failure
Twenty times agone, Australian forces followed the US into Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks with a simple charge to hunt down Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership and remove the Taliban government that had sheltered them. That charge has ended in menial failure. Its costs have been significant 41 combat- […]
Continue ReadingUK rules out returning troops to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
British and NATO forces won’t return to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, the United Kingdom’s defence clerk said, after the group took control of Kabul following a blistering civil descent. Ben Wallace told Sky News on Monday that it was “ not on the cards that we ’re going to go back” as reports of […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan: How press freedom crumbled since Taliban takeover
Selma (the name changed) is a journalist and live activist and works in Panjshir Province in East Afghanistan. He lost his job after a Taliban takeover from a war hit by a war in August. After being threatened, he had since left the area and now in hiding, selling Bolani, local flat bread, on the […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan: Citizens Acquire Passports With Fake Illness Documents Under Taliban’s Policy
People in Afghanistan are copping fake illness documents to apply for the passport, in agreement with the unpremeditated policy drafted by the Taliban that makes the bad Afghan citizens eligible to acquire a passport using the attestation as evidence. All sick people, government workers, and huntsmen are eligible to get their passports issued under the […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan ‘spinning out of control’ amid Taliban offensive: UN
The Taliban armed group has captured the provincial capitals, Qalat, Terenkot, Pul-e-Alam, Feruz Koh, Qal-e-Naw and Lashkar Gah, hours after capturing Herat and Kandahar cities. It so far has control over 18 provincial capitals across Afghanistan. In his first appeal to the group, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the Taliban to immediately halt its […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan: Political affairs chief has ‘frank and useful exchanges’ with the Taliban
“ I had foursquare and useful exchanges about what demanded to be done to bring about an Afghanistan that’s inclusive, abides by its mortal rights scores and is a bent mate in suppressing terrorism,” she said. During her conversations, the Under-Secretary-General stressed the significance of icing that all Afghans – men, women, youth and religious […]
Continue ReadingAfghanistan ‘on the brink of catastrophe’: UN envoy
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 ReadingAl-Qaeda has grown ‘slightly’ inside Afghanistan since Taliban takeover: U.S. commander
The al-Qaeda extremist group has grown slightly inside Afghanistan since U.S. forces left in late August, and the country’s new Taliban leaders are divided over whether to fulfill their 2020 pledge to break ties with the group, the top U.S. commander in the region said Thursday. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said in an interview with The […]
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