By Murtaza Ali Shah in The News, December 27, 2023LONDON: Aleema Khan has revealed that legal proceedings will be initiated in the UK by Imran Khan’s sons and in the US against American diplomat Donald Lu, seeking justice for the PTI chief. However, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the UK appears to be unaware of these developments. In the United States, Atif Khan, a PTI Core Committee member and adviser to Imran Khan, has verified…
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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…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, Sept 15th, 2023WASHINGTON: A senior US diplomat has identified the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as the greatest threat to regional stability. Addressing a seminar at the Stimson Center on Tuesday, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Tom West, however, admitted that the Taliban rulers had “significantly degraded” the capabilities of the militant Islamic State (IS) group. Mr West said the Doha agreement that enabled the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan…
by Aleezeh Fatimah in Dawn, Sept 10, 2023• Jalil Abbas Jilani says ‘close-knitted’ conversation with Afghanistan has taken a ‘positive turn’KARACHI: Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Saturday confirmed that a demarche had been issued to the Afghan charge d’affaires following the terrorist attack on two military posts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lower Chitral district earlier this week. Responding to a question during a press conference on whether the matter was being discussed with the…
report in The News,August 30, 2023WASHINGTON: The United States (US) State Department said Tuesday that Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland underscored the importance of free, fair and timely general elections in Pakistan in a telephonic conversation with interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani. “Acting Deputy Secretary Nuland and Foreign Minister Jilani discussed the importance of timely, free and fair elections in a manner consistent with Pakistan’s laws and constitution,” according to State Department…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, Feb 27, 2023The Afghanistan embassy in Tehran was “formally” handed over to the Taliban on Sunday afternoon, according to an Afghan diplomat in Iran. The outgoing ambassador of Afghanistan gave over all documents and equipment of the Afghanistan embassy in Tehran to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to a source, the Taliban-led government has appointed Fazl Mohammad Haqqani, the first secretary of the former ambassador of Afghanistan…
report in The ToloNews, Feb, 16, 2023 at 10:19 PM At least 650 Afghan refugees are still in prisons in Pakistan, a senior diplomat of the Islamic Emirate said, calling on the Pakistan government to release them. The General Consulate of Afghanistan in Karachi, Abdul Jabar Takhari, said 1,200 Afghan refugees have been recently released from prisons in Pakistan. On Wednesday, at least 200 Afghan refugees were freed from prisons in Karachi. “There are 650…
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Feb 5, 2023 at 8:50 PMMoscow is set to host a meeting of senior regional security officials on the situation in Afghanistan next week, a Russian diplomat said. The Islamic Emirate said that the participants are expected to discuss the recognition of Afghanistan. Islamic Emirate’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid called on Moscow to invite a representative of the Afghanistan’s caretaker government. “The Islamic Emirate has not yet been invited but those…