By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Aug 11, 2023Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, during a meeting with outgoing Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu in Kabul, expressed appreciation for China’s constructive foreign policy towards Afghanistan over the past two years. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesperson for the foreign ministry, said on Friday that the discussion primarily revolved around the Afghanistan-China relations throughout the preceding two years. Meanwhile, the deliberations encompassed China’s investments in Afghanistan and…
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By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, Auf 11, 2023US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul criticized the intervention of the Islamic Emirate in the country’s aid to Afghanistan. McCaul said that there is an urgent need for transparency from the Biden administration on funding to Afghanistan. “It is despicable that US taxpayer money is lining the pockets of a terrorist group like the Taliban, which persecutes Afghan women and girls. For months, I have…
By Fidel Rahmati in the Khaama Press online, August 10, 2023A senior Iranian diplomat has accused the United States is deliberately fostering instability in Afghanistan to create crises for neighbouring countries. In an interview with Iran’s state news agency IRNA on Wednesday, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, asserted that after the complete withdrawal of US forces. Since the withdrawal of the foreign forces in 2021, the United States has supported what he…
By Fidel Rahmati in the Khaama Press online, August 9, 2023The de facto administration of Afghanistan once again has rejected the repeated allegations of the Pakistani officials and said that Afghanistan is not responsible for the “failure of any regional country’s security.” Zabihulla Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Taliban-led government, said that following recent attacks in Pakistan, Pakistani authorities once again blamed Afghans rather than strengthening their country’s security. “The government of Afghanistan reiterates its…
AFP report in The News, August 10, 2023KABUL: Dozens of Pakistani Islamic State (IS) group militants have been killed or captured in Afghanistan in the past year, Kabul’s Taliban authorities said on Wednesday, days after Islamabad blamed Afghans for involvement in suicide attacks on its territory. Tensions between the neighbours have mounted recently over an uptick in suicide attacks in Pakistan, with Islamabad claiming militants are frequently helped by Afghans. Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid…
Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023KABUL / PESHAWAR: Following a number of strongly-worded protests from Islamabad, calling on the Taliban regime to prevent militants and terrorists from using Afghan soil to attack Pakistan, Kabul has alleged — for the first time — that several militants from Pakistan have been killed or captured in Afghanistan over the past year. Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP on Wednesday that in the past year, 18 people “eliminated…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Aug 8, 2023Two children were killed, and three others were wounded when unidentified individuals tossed grenades into a house in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. The incident occurred late on Monday night in the Shiekh Mursi community of Surkhrod district when two unidentified men threw two grenades into a house, killing two children and injuring three others, including a woman, according to provincial…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Aug 8, 2023The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration to provide more details regarding the 25-year-old “terrorist” incident that claimed the lives of eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist in Mazar-i-Sharif. The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the “bitter and unforgettable” atrocity in a statement on its anniversary, honoured those who lost their lives and urged the Taliban administration to provide “clarity” on the incident.…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:27 PMThe deputy Minister of Economy, Abdul Latif Nazari, said that nearly 220 aid organizations have been closed within the last year. Nazari said that the operations of these organizations have been halted due to not obeying guidelines. “If they don’t follow our laws and rules, then their license is cancelled. So, within one year the licenses of 216 organizations with four of them foreign organizations…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Aug 7, 2023 at 10:18 PMOfficials at the Academy of Science of Afghanistan said that a plan for the reopening of schools for girls above grade six is being discussed by Islamic Emirate officials. Speaking at a press conference of the organization’s annual activities, the officials of the Academy of Science of Afghanistan, said that at least 46 projects of scientific research have been completed. “The issue to which you…
By Rohullah Sangar in ToloNews, Aug 7, 2023 at 10:27 PMAfghan refugees in Turkey complained of mistreatment by the Turkish government. They said that Turkish border forces have been beating and even shooting at Afghan refugees. “They detained us and beat us from dusk to dawn. I don’t think anyone would do such beating, neither a pagan nor a Muslim,” said Rahmatullah, an Afghan refugee returned from Turkey. “We leave Afghanistan to find work. We…