by Muhammad Amir Rana in Dawn, January 8th, 2023The writer is a security analyst.WITH the Taliban having banned their education, Pakistan can allow Afghan female students to complete their degrees in Pakistan. This would allow the country to embark on a new Afghan policy, which it direly needs after its recent disappointments with the Taliban regime. Pakistan’s Afghan policy has remained strategic-centric, which needs a radical transformation. A new Afghan policy should focus on a…
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By Pamela Constable in The Washington Post, Jan 7, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. ESTKABUL — Taliban authorities have embarked on an ambitious project to change the face of the Afghan capital, a crowded metropolis of 5 million that still displays the scars, monuments and fads of periods of civil conflict, foreign invasion and new-money opulence. The Kabul municipal government, which provides utility services to homes and businesses and then collects fees to support its budget,…
Report in Dawn, January 6th, 2023KARACHI: Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday the Islamic State (IS) militants involved in the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul have been killed in an operation, Dawn.com reported. Afghan security forces carried out operations in Kabul against a “dangerous network” of the militant Islamic State group who were involved in attacks on the Pakistan embassy and on a hotel where Chinese nationals were staying, Mr Mujahid said…
by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Jan 5th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would approach the interim Afghan government with a fresh demand to deny the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates any space on the Afghan soil, official sources told The Express Tribune here on Wednesday. While the civil and military leadership decided to deal with the TTP and other terror outfits with iron hands, the Afghan Taliban would be asked to cooperate in this…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in ToloNews, Jan 2,2023 at 10:19 PMThe Joint Chamber of Afghanistan-Pakistan Commerce on Monday said that Islamabad has imposed new restrictions on the transit of Afghan commodities, creating hurdles in the way of traders to transfer their products via Karachi port. “The problem is in invoice. The Pakistani government has increased the invoice of commodities such as tires, electric devices, medicines, oil and sugar,” said Najibullah Safi, head of the Joint…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 31, 2022Refugees from Afghanistan are facing unprecedented challenges in Pakistan, especially after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Their numbers have swelled in Pakistan in the last two years as Afghanistan is going through a difficult phase with acute food and medical shortages. With the increase of insecurity in different parts of Pakistan, Afghan men are regularly picked up for interrogations by the state security agencies. Even women…
report in Dawn, December 30th, 2022ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has said that Pakistan has pursued continuous and practical engagement with the interim Afghan government since the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on Aug 15, 2021. Addressing a weekly briefing on Thursday, FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch said that during the outgoing year Pakistan was involved in multilateral diplomacy, both in an individual capacity and as a member of international groupings. Regarding Afghanistan, she expressed disappointment over…
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Dec 28, 2022 at 9:04 PMFormer President Hamid Karzai urged the Islamic Emirate to begin a process of inclusivity by launching a grand Afghan dialogue, saying that it is for the good of the “Taliban themselves and for the good of the country.” The former president, who remained in power from 2001 to 2014, made the remarks in an interview with The Washington Post. When asked about the Islamic Emirate’s…
By Andleeb Abbas in Daily Times, Dec 24, 2022The writer is a columnist, consultant, coach, and analystArmed attack. Daylight terror. Hostages. Killings. Blasts in Quetta, Wana and Bannu. This is not 2012 but 2022. They are back. They are threatening. They are spreading. Islamabad-based institute PIPS (Pakistan institute of Peace studies) has published a paper that claims that a 51 per cent increase in terrorism has occurred in Pakistan since the Afghan Taliban took over…
AFP report, Dec 23, 2022KABUL: A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. In the latest move to restrict human rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s minister for higher education on Tuesday ordered all public and private universities to bar women from attending. “They expelled women from universities. Oh, the respected people, support, support.…