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Jamaat calls for talks with protesting Chaman traders

Report in Dawn, Dec 04, 2023PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief Prof Mohammad Ibrahim Khan has stressed the need for holding negotiations with the protesting traders in Chaman, Balochistan. He said the government should reconsider ‘conditioning’ passport for movement between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a statement issued from the Jamaat’s Markaz-i-Islami here on Sunday. Prof Ibrahim said people living along the border had family relations in each country, and moved freely across the border for…

Jilani Says Refugee Policy Applies to “All Illegal People” Not Just Afghans:

Report in TOLOnews Online, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:49 PMPakistan’s Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has once again stressed that the new policy for refugees applies to “all illegal people” not only Afghan refugees. Speaking at a press conference, Jilani said: “this is certainly not an Afghanistan-specific decision that the government has taken, this decision applies to all illegal people residing in Pakistan and I think this is a firm decision that has been made…

Mujahid Says There is No ‘General Restriction’ on Karzai

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Sept 8, 2023 at 9:35 PMThe Islamic Emirate’s Spokesman denied restrictions on the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai but stressed that Karzai’s meetings should be through addresses of the Islamic Emirate. Zabiullah Mujahid said that Karzai currently doesn’t have any political position and that he is a normal citizen of the country. Mujahid’s remarks come one day after a TOLOnews report that said the former president has been restricted from…

Mujahid Says There is No ‘General Restriction’ on Karzai

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Sept 8, 2023 at 9:35 PMThe Islamic Emirate’s Spokesman denied restrictions on the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai but stressed that Karzai’s meetings should be through addresses of the Islamic Emirate. Zabiullah Mujahid said that Karzai currently doesn’t have any political position and that he is a normal citizen of the country. Mujahid’s remarks come one day after a TOLOnews report that said the former president has been restricted from…

Muttaqi Calls for Removal of Sanctions in Meeting with US: Mujahid

By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, July 31, 2023 at 8:48 PMThe acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in the meeting with US officials in Doha stressed the need for the removal of sanctions, according to the Islamic Emirate’s spokesman. The spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told TOLOnews that Muttaqi also urged the US to not create obstacles for the economic development of Afghanistan. “The obstacles should not be created ahead of Afghanistan’s development. The sanctions on the…

Iran, Uzbek Foreign Ministers Discuss Afghanistan

By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Mar 12, 2023 at 7:28 PMThe foreign ministers of Iran and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan and stressed the need to cooperate as neighbors to strengthen the country. The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Baxtiyor Saidov, traveled to Iran to meet with the country’s officials, including his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. A statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran said that the two sides called for cooperation for…

Protecting Women: Editorial in Dawn, Feb 8th, 2023

The rape of a young woman at gunpoint at the Fatima Jinnah Park in F-9, Islamabad, shook the nation. Public backlash forced the government to re-evaluate its approach towards security and has brought the police force under fire for failing to protect citizens—partic­ularly women. Fortunately, the case has made its way to the National As­sembly which has stressed the need for justice and demanded a compre­hensive review of the security situation of Islamabad but what…

Haqqani Seeks Unity among Muslim Nations in Meeting with CLERICS

report in ToloNews, Jan 6, 2023 at 10.16 pmThe acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, stressed the need for unity among Muslim nations as he met with religious scholars from Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine in Kabul on Friday. Abdul Nafay Takor, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that in this meeting, Haqqani asked the clerics to convey the voice of the Afghan people to the world. “Khalifa Sahib welcomed the scholars and underlined the…