The Islamic Emirate deployed a group of quick reaction forces to the northeastern province of Badakhshan to maintain security for the people and to protect the borders, local officials said. The new quick reaction forces are reportedly equipped with modern light and heavy weapons. Local officials in Badakhshan province said that the quick reaction forces have been trained for two months and are ready to provide security along the borders and beside local residents. “Afghanistan…
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A bomb ripped through a vehicle carrying a Taliban police chief in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing him and wounding 11 others, officials said. The blast happened in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, targeting the Taliban police chief for Shigal district, said an official from the militant group. “The police chief has died and eleven people have been wounded,” he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. A doctor in Kunar central hospital confirmed…
WASHINGTON DC (The Soufan Center): Jihadist veterans from Central Asian maintain connections to Afghanistan, and there is a possibility that Central Asian fighters in the Levant will migrate to Afghanistan if the conditions are conducive. Central Asian countries remain wary of the Taliban, given that it hosted or cooperated with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Jund al-Khilafah, and Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) over the past two decades. Any Taliban pledge to disallow terrorist groups…
Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Administration in a statement said that Pakistan’s PIA and Afghanistan’s Kam Air will be banned to conduct flights from Kabul to Islamabad if they do not charge the same price as they did prior to their takeover. The statement reads that the Airlines will be fined and punished if they violate the rules. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan warns the Airlines after PIA started charging up to $2,500 for each ticket from…
As the sun sets over a dusty ravine on the outskirts of Van city in eastern Turkey, Muhammdullah Sangeen and dozens of other Afghans are preparing for another night sleeping rough. The 22-year-old, who has a bruised left eye and fresh cuts all over his arms, arrived from Iran a few days earlier with the help of smugglers. “I am not OK,” said Sangeen, his legs trembling. “I’m not feeling human.” Sangeen, who fought the…
The delegation of the Islamic Emirate in a meeting with US and European envoys urged the world to lift sanctions on the Islamic Emirate and “let banks operate normally.” The foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday evening that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate, led by acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, held talks with the representatives of the US and European countries in Doha. Muttaqi said the payment of civil servants’ salaries…
KABUL: Afghanistan´s new Taliban government has warned US and European envoys that continued attempts to pressure them through sanctions will undermine security and could trigger a wave of economic refugees. Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi told Western diplomats at talks in Doha that “weakening the Afghan government is not in the interest of anyone because its negative effects will directly affect the world in (the) security sector and economic migration from the country”, according…
DUBAI: Qatar’s foreign minister said isolating Afghanistan and its new Taliban rulers will never be an answer and argued on Wednesday that engaging with the former insurgents could empower the more moderate voices among them. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani spoke amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings taking place in Qatar, where the Taliban have maintained a political office for years in the lead-up to their takeover of Afghanistan in August. The world has…
Qatar believes that recognizing the Taliban government in Afghanistan is not a priority now, and that the focus should be on engaging with the new administration and addressing humanitarian issues, a senior Qatari official said on Tuesday. Mutlaq Al-Qahtani, special envoy of the Qatari foreign minister, urged other countries to engage more deeply with the Taliban as Afghanistan’s de facto authority, while urging the Islamic Emirate to act as a “responsible” administration and respect the…
US president Joe Biden has said that the former civil servants who worked for the Taliban during 1996-2001 will be exempt from the terror-related bans and will be allowed to travel to the United States. The memorandum for the administration was obtained by Fox News on Thursday, October 14. As per the memorandum, the civil servants were employed under duress or other situation of hardships and adds that some did so that they mitigate repressive…
The writer is a retired major general and has an interest in International Relations and Political Sociology.The co-joined twins, Pakistan and Afghanistan, are on another tryst with history and common destiny. The ‘isolationists’ among us do not realise the inseparability, indispensability and interdependence of Pak-Afghan ties. One had commented in this space on the traditionally hostile attitude of the Afghan Ruling Clique (ARC) towards Pakistan, as against the common Afghans, who look towards Torkham, Chaman…