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Pakistan shifts stance on Afghan Taliban

by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Nov 9, 20223ISLAMABAD: In a major policy shift, Pakistan has decided not to advocate the Afghan Taliban’s case at the international level or extend any other assistance following failure of the Kabul authorities to neutralise the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). At the same time, Islamabad will no longer extend any “special privileges” to the interim Afghan Taliban government in a move that suggests deterioration in relations between the…

Kabul’s Isolation Undermining Aid, Development Efforts: ICG Report

By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Feb 24, 2023 at 8:31 PMThe International Crisis Group said in a new report that the latest restrictions imposed by the Islamic Emirate have dealt women’s freedoms a “grievous blow” in Afghanistan and that they are also impeding delivery of life-saving assistance, disrupting the world’s largest aid operation even as half the population suffers from acute hunger. “The unrecognized regime’s isolation undermines humanitarian and development efforts,” the report said. “It…