By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 8, 2023The United Nations Coordination Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) has reported that over 20,000 Afghan migrants have returned to Afghanistan from the Turkham and Spin Boldak borders within just three days. According to OCHA, more than 60% of these returnees are children. This organization, which is associated with the United Nations, has characterized the condition of the migrants expelled from Pakistan as “heartbreaking” according to…
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report in Dawn online, Nov 8, 2023Expressing condolences on the recent wave of terror attacks in Pakistan, including the Mianwali air base assault, the US State Department has affirmed that “no equipment was left behind by American forces during the Afghanistan withdrawal” that could be utilised by terrorists to target Pakistan. The US State Department’s principal deputy spokesperson, Vedant Patel, made this statement during a press briefing on Tuesday, in response to a query regarding…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Oct 6, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan foreign ministers met in Tibet on Thursday amid tensions as the Foreign Office clarified that the crackdown against illegal immigrants was not against a particular nationality. As tensions deepened between the two neighbours, caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani met his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in China’s Tibet Autonomous region. Both were there to attend an international conference. A brief statement…
By Rasheed Khalid in The News, August 17, 2023Islamabad:Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb, Charge d’Affaires, Afghanistan, has claimed a substantial 90% reduction in poppy production and work on drug addicts rehabilitation which included a vocational programme for drug addiction recovery. Sardar Shakeeb was addressing a webinar on “Interim Afghan government in power – two years on” organised here by the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS). …. The Afghan envoy said that the economic achievements include combating food…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, July 25th, 2023QUETTA: Two members of Levies force were gunned down by unknown armed men in two different incidents at Chaman, a town near the border with Afghanistan, on Monday. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for one of the shootings. In the first incident, assailants riding motorcycles shot at Rehmatullah while he was on his way home after work. He died instantly. Police rushed to the scene and shifted…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, June 26, 2023The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that Afghanistan produced the majority of global illicit opium production in 2022, which makes 80%, despite the Taliban’s ban on opium cultivation in April last year. The report released a day before the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, said that the supply and trafficking of illegal drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamine, have increased…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, April 28, 2023 at 8:49 PMThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Washington D.C., where they discussed various matters including Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters, Blinken said that the US and UN are “working closely together when it comes to Afghanistan – the deep concerns that so many countries share about the steps the Taliban has taken when it comes to denying the rights…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, April 14, 2023 at 10:06 PMParticipants at the Samarkand summit for countries neighbouring Afghanistan discussed the international community’s demands for an inclusive government and rights for women and minorities, as well as about countering terrorism and the drug trade, according to a statement of Uzbekistan’s foreign ministry. The statement said that the parties in the 4th meeting of neighboring countries of Afghanistan “discussed the existing condition in Afghanistan, the…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 11, 2023Two children were killed when the unexploded device from the past war exploded in the eastern province of Ghazni, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, local sources said. On Monday afternoon, a group of children found the explosive device in the eastern province of Afghanistan, Ghazni, Nahoor district; while playing with the device, it exploded and killed two of the children, according to local sources. On Sunday, a…
By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews, April 11, 2023 at 8:18 PMWhile welcoming the release of women’s rights activist Nargis Sadat and university instructor Zakaria Osuli, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called for the “immediate release of all those arbitrarily detained. “UNAMA also said that “no Afghan should be detained for exercising their freedom of expression.” Nargas Sadat was detained nearly two months ago by the Islamic Emirate. Late Monday, UNAMA welcomed the release…