By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press Online,March 16, 2023Afghanistan’s acting public health minister Dr Qalandar Ebad departed Kabul on Thursday for a six-day visit to Qatar. According to the Ministry, Dr Ebad leading a high-ranking delegation, will meet with Qatari authorities to discuss cooperation and investment in the country’s healthcare sector, capacity building for Afghan doctors, and coordinating health services with Qatar. In a recent interview with Aryana News, the minister of public health said…
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By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, March 10, 2023The Kabul police’s spokesman, Khalid Zadran, acknowledged an explosion in the city’s fifth district of Kabul on Friday evening. The blast occurred at the intersection of Spin Kelly in the Khushal Khan Mina area, fifth district of Kabul, where two people were injured. The police forces have gone to the place for investigation, Zadran said.During the last week, security has deteriorated, and Islamic State Khorasan has…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:35 PMWomen held a protest in Kabul on International Women’s Day, calling for women’s access to education and work. The protestors called for the removal of restrictions imposed women in Afghanistan. “It is March 8 but women in Afghanistan have no rights to celebrate this day. We are the women who are imprisoned in the country. The restrictions are worsened day-by-day,” said Jolia Parsa, a member…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews’, Mar 3, 2023 at 11:00 PMThe US special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, said Washington has not seen significant steps towards normalization with the Islamic Emirate. In a special interview with TOLOnews, West stated that the current Afghan government lacks a permanent representative at the UN and official ties with international financial institutions. “We have not seen significant steps towards normalization with the Taliban, They do not have a…
report in TOLOnews, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:44 PMThree years have passed since the signing of the Doha agreement between the US and the Islamic Emirate, and neither Kabul nor Washington is pleased with the way the agreement has been implemented. Kabul said that the parts of this agreement that refer to the Islamic Emirate have been fully implemented, but Washington has not been bound by its obligations in this regard. “Their troops did not…
Edit in The Express Tribune, Mar 1, 2023.A major success in counterterrorism has come the Kabul’s way. In what seems to be a well-choreographed operation, the Afghan Taliban took out IS-K’s top leader, who was also its military and intelligence chief. This will surely act as a deterrent and will go a long way in further consolidating the Afghan interim government’s grip over power, enabling them to tackle the terror fissures in a more comprehensive…
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…
Report in Dawn, February 19th, 2023• Urges world to help Afghan authorities build capacity to counter terrorism• Calls for opening Kabul’s banking channels, unfreezing its funds• Top Chinese official says Beijing firmly supports Islamabad in maintaining security ISLAMABAD: Even if the Afghan rulers demonstrate the will to counter terrorism, they certainly don’t have the capacity to do so, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Saturday, warning that the threat will soon spill over outside the…
Editorialin Dawn, February 17th, 2023IF the analysis of an American government think tank stating that the Afghan Taliban are unwilling to end their support for the banned TTP is accurate, it would put to rest the illusion harboured by some in our security establishment that a Taliban government in Kabul is good for Pakistan. If anything, the US Institute of Peace report paints an unsettling picture, which shows that not only are the Afghan rulers…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press online, Feb 14, 2023Taliban senior spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that Islamic Emirate security forces destroyed an important ISIS hideout in the capital Kabul late Monday night. According to Zabiullah Mujahid, Taliban security personnel stormed an important Daesh (ISIS) hideout during a special operation in provincial district 8th of Kabul late Monday night, which resulted in the death of some key members of Daesh, which included some foreign nationals…
By Imran Danish in TOLOnews, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:01 PMThe General Intelligence Department said that last night in an operation on Daesh sanctuaries in PD8 of Kabul three members of Daesh were killed and one other was arrested. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, said that the operation started in the evening and went until 10 o’clock at night. Be said these members were involved in some of the recent attacks in Kabul.…