report in The News, Jan 03, 2023KABUL: Reacting to Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah’s statement about targeting the TTP hideouts inside Afghanistan, the interim Taliban government Sunday said it would not allow anyone to attack the Islamic Emirate and asked Pakistan to share its reservations with Kabul. The interior minister, in an interview with a local news channel had hinted that Islamabad might target the TTP in Afghanistan if Kabul did not take action to dismantle…
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report in Dawn, December 30th, 2022ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has said that Pakistan has pursued continuous and practical engagement with the interim Afghan government since the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on Aug 15, 2021. Addressing a weekly briefing on Thursday, FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch said that during the outgoing year Pakistan was involved in multilateral diplomacy, both in an individual capacity and as a member of international groupings. Regarding Afghanistan, she expressed disappointment over…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Dec 27, 2022Authorities of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan closed two educational centers in Kabul and Herat accommodating more than 1200 female students. Roya Mahboob, the Founder of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team tweeted on Monday that the Taliban authorities forcibly shut the education centers in Herat and Kabul. More than a thousand female students were taking pieces training in business, Robotics, coding, and Information Communications Technology. Following the…
By Pamela Constable inn The Washington Post, Dec 22, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. ESTKABUL — The spacious ballroom glittered with lights. Young women in chiffon and satin gowns sashayed among the tables or twirled slowly on the dance floor to tapes of rhythmic music. Amid “oohs” and “aahs,” the bride and groom were lowered from the ceiling in a golden cable car and escorted to a lotus-shaped throne. Tiny drones whirred in the air, recording…
AFP report, Dec 23, 2022KABUL: A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. In the latest move to restrict human rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s minister for higher education on Tuesday ordered all public and private universities to bar women from attending. “They expelled women from universities. Oh, the respected people, support, support.…
by Baqir Sajjad Syed in Dawn, Dec 23rd, 2022ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday said Afghanistan’s de facto government has renewed its commitment to rein in cross-border terrorism and hoped that the Taliban administration would live up to its pledge. “We have received some assurances and have held some important consultations with the Afghan authorities. We hope that the Afghan interim government will fulfil the commitments that it has made to Pakistan in terms of…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 16th, 2022• One killed, 15 injured as Afghan forces attack another team repairing border fence• Both sides blame each other for instigating deadly exchange of fireQUETTA: Four days after Afghan authorities “apologised” to Islamabad over cross-border shelling that claimed the lives of eight people, armed clashes erupted between security forces from Pakistan and Afghanistan at the border in Chaman on Thursday, leaving at least one dead and 15 others…
AP report in Pakistan Today, Dec 14, 2022ISLAMABAD: China on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible,” following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul. The Chinese advisory appeared to be a setback for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers who seek foreign investments in hopes of halting the downward spiral of the Afghan economy since their takeover of…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 12, 2022A blast rattled central Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw area on Monday afternoon, the latest violence to strike the country. Local sources reported hearing occasional gunfire close to a hotel that is apparently popular with Chinese business travelers. People were advised to stay away from the windows in a conversation that Khaama Press obtained. According to the sources, Chinese diplomats and residents frequently travel through the location where the incident occurred.…
By Saqalain Eqbal in Khaama Press onlines, Dec 12, 2022Three assailants were killed in the hotel attack in the Shahr-e-Naw neighborhood of Kabul, the Afghan capital, according to Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Afghan government. Several explosions and gunshot bursts were heard by sources as the unidentified gunmen attacked the multi-story Kabul Longan Hotel on Monday, December 12. According to Mujahid, all guests have been moved and no foreigners were killed in the attack.…
AFP report, Dec 13, 2022KABUL: Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals in an attack that ended when at least three gunmen were killed by security forces, the Taliban-run administration said. Two foreigners were injured while trying to escape by jumping from the hotel balcony, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on Twitter. Kabul’s Emergency Hospital, run by an Italian non-profit near the attacked hotel in the…