Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 30, 2023 at 9:58 PMUN Special Coordinator for Afghanistan, Feridun Sinirlioğlu, on Tuesday presented his report of an assessment of Afghanistan to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Switzerland at the United Nations wrote on X that the UN Security Council held a private meeting on the independent assessment on Afghanistan. “Special Coordinator Feridun Sinirlioğlu briefed the UNSC.” “The inclusion and active participation of women and girls in all aspects…
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Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 28, 2023 at 8:59 PMThe participants of the Herat Security Dialogue (HSD) in their second day of meeting stressed the importance of a regional agreement and the role of the regional countries to solve the issue of Afghanistan. The 11th session of the Herat Security Dialogue was held on Monday and Tuesday in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. The session was attended by Afghan opposition figures and envoys of more than…
By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Nov 25, 2023 at 8:08 PMSuhail Shaheen, the head of the Islamic Emirate’s Qatar-based Political Office, said the UN acted without neutrality in determining the seat of Afghanistan. In an interview with RTA, Shaheen said that the UN uses Afghanistan’s seat in the organization as pressure on the Islamic Emirate, urging the organization to handover the seat to the current Afghan government. “This [UN] is a big organization and they…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 21, 2023Russian media have reported the detention of a student affiliated with one of the active terrorist groups in Afghanistan, alleging that he had been propagating for extremist terrorist organizations. According to the TASS news agency, the detained individual is a student who had been actively involved in calling upon people to engage in “jihad” against the “infidels.” Details about the identity of the detained individual…
report in TOLOnews, Nov 18, 2023 at 8:26 PMThe US Institute of Peace (USIP), after reviewing the recent reports of the World Bank on the economic situation of Afghanistan, said that Afghanistan’s economy once again is near “the precipice.” Senior economic experts of USIP noted that “more than two years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world with some of the highest humanitarian needs.” “Two recent World Bank reports…
By Fidel Rahmati in THe Khaama Press Online, November 12, 2023In the last 20 days, 3,090 Afghan people were flown from Turkey to Kabul due to deportation, as reported by the head of the Legal Support Directorate of the Ministry of Refugees’ Affairs. According to the source, among these 3,090 individuals who were deported by air, there were 7 families and 7 children. Assistance in the form of cash has been provided to 3,083 of…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews Online, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:42 PMThe UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in an assessment of the situation of Afghanistan to the UN Security Council, recommended a roadmap for reintegration of the country into the international system. On 16 March 2023, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2679 requesting the Secretary-General to provide the Security Council an independent assessment on Afghanistan, no later than 17 November 2023. In…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press Online, November 7, 2023The Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan has appointed a diplomat for the Afghan embassy in Tajikistan. The Ministry has recently issued a letter, and Afghanistan International has reported that it designates Faizullah as the First Secretary of the embassy. Based on this written communication, the Taliban has promised to also pay the unpaid salaries of Afghan embassy staff in Tajikistan for the past six months. Tajikistan has…
AFP report, Nov 6, 2023KABUL: Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged 95 per cent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop, according to a UN report published on Sunday.Since returning to power in 2021, Taliban authorities have vowed to end illegal drug production in Afghanistan and in April 2022 banned the cultivation of the poppy plant, from which opium and heroin are made. The report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and…