by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: US President Joe Biden’s troubleshooter for Afghanistan on Friday held a series of meetings with Pakistan’s senior military and Foreign Office officials to discuss the current situation in the neighbouring country, particularly the renewed threat posed by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Tom West, the US special representative for Afghanistan, is in Islamabad as part of his regional tour that would also take him to…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 8, 2023Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, currently in jail, criticized the deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan on Thursday. “1.5 million refugees are not much of a burden for a nation of 250 million people. There is a fear of a permanent rift in the long-standing relationship between the two countries, considering the way Afghan refugees are being expelled,” Imran Khan wrote on his social media…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Dec 8th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The UK envoy on Thursday called on JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence and asked the latter to use his influence on the Afghan Taliban to remove a bar on women’s education in Afghanistan. Maulana Fazl, however, told High Commissioner Jane Marriott that the Western model of education was “not possible in Afghanistan due to its cultural and traditional norms”. He suggested the West…
AFP report, Dec 5, 2023 at 02.15 PM ISTBEIJING: China said on Tuesday Afghanistan’s Taliban government will need to introduce political reforms, improve security and mend relations with its neighbours before receiving full diplomatic recognition. Beijing does not formally recognise Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, although both countries host each others’ ambassadors and have maintained diplomatic engagement. “China has always believed that Afghanistan should not be excluded from the international community,” foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 4, 2023The human rights organization known as “Hengaw” has said that Iran has carried out the execution of at least 12 prisoners in its prisons over the past month, including three Afghan citizens. This organization, on Sunday, released a report stating that in the past month, executions of nine prisoners in Iran have been carried out every other day. According to “Hengaw,” those executed include at…
By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews Online, Dec 04, 2023 at 8:54 PMThe second day of a meeting of opposition leaders and foreign diplomats was held in Vienna, where participants discussed the extension of cooperation, diplomatic movements and a political roadmap for the future of Afghanistan. The diplomats were from the US, UK, Austria, Germany, Spain and Norway. “Today, there was a free discussion and suggestions were made for a roadmap to solve the crisis of…
AFP report, Dec 04, 2023HERAT, Afghanistan: Dozens of Shiite women demonstrated in western Afghanistan on Sunday against attacks on the Muslim minority at the funeral of several members of their community killed days before. The women shouted, “Death to the murderers” and “We need security” during the funeral in Herat city´s Jebrael area, Hussain Azimi, a member of the ulama, or council of religious scholars, told AFP. They were among several hundred people gathered to…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 2, 2023Heather Barr, the head of the Women’s Rights Watch, has stated that a society without the presence of women is “discouraging.” According to her, many women in Afghanistan are behind bars, while only a small number of them have been reported. The head of the Women’s Rights Watch, on Thursday, stated in a report published on her social media platform X that these women have been detained “arbitrarily.”…
AFP report, Dec 1, 2023ISLAMABAD: Abdullah was a well-known public figure in Afghanistan, a journalist and university lecturer respected by his readers and students. In Pakistan, however, he is laying low—worried about being caught in a deportation dragnet and after two years still waiting to be evacuated to the West. He fled Afghanistan when the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 on the advice of US officials and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), fearing retribution…
By Asif Mahmood Butt in The News, Dec 01, 2023LAHORE: Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman said Thursday the Afghan transit trade and smuggling caused loss of four billion dollars annually. Talking to The News, he said after an end to smuggling, the price of sugar has come down significantly and wheat is now in abundance. “Now we are in a position to export wheat,” he remarked. The chief secretary said 900 illegal Afghan refugees…
By Asim Yasin in The News, November 30, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti Wednesday disclosed that Afghan citizens were involved in most of the terrorist incidents that took place in Pakistan and said the recent suicide bombing on a security forces convoy in Bannu was carried out by an Afghan. “Afghan citizens were involved in 14 out of 26 terrorist incidents which took place in Pakistan”, he said while briefing the Senate Committee on…