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Pakistan Financing Islamic State in Afghanistan, Attack on Embassy in Kabul A Drama: Former IS Leader

By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 17, 2023Sheikh Abdul Rahim Muslimdost, in a recent interview with al-Mersaad Media, claimed that Pakistan is financing the ISIS group in Afghanistan. Muslimdost was a former founding member of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) who surrendered to the Taliban in March 2022, according to the media reports. In his interview, he claimed that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba provided 50 Lakh Pakistani Rupee to the ISKP in 2015. He…

Afghanistan coffers swell as Taliban taxman collects

AFP report in Business Recorder, Mar 10,. 2023KABUL: A dusty logjam of trucks inches across a rut in the mountains splitting Pakistan and Afghanistan, teeming with a cargo of fruit and coal — and paying the Taliban authorities for the privilege of passage. In downtown Kabul, a patrol of accountants inspects a bazaar, billing shopkeepers for trading honey, hair conditioner and gas hobs under the snapping white flag of the country’s new rulers. Afghanistan is…

Taliban admin in oil extraction deal with Chinese company

Reuters report, Jan 6, 2023A screengrab shows a view of the CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation) plant near the Amu Darya basin in Sar-e Pul northern province of Afghanistan. Reuters file photoAfghanistan’s Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country’s north, the acting mining minister said on Thursday. The contract would be signed with Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co…

Karzai: Intra-Afghan Dialogue Important for Islamic Emirate, Afghanistan

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…