By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 17, 2023Islamabad has reached an agreement with the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior to relocate Tehreek-t-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members from the border of the two countries to western Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani official on conditions of anonymity told Anadolu news agency. The Pakistani government will bear the financial costs of relocating TTP members to the western parts of Afghanistan, the source said. “The Pakistani government and Taliban administration have…
Posts tagged as “Taliban”
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 13, 2023 at 8:45 PMNorway’s foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced the ministry “invited three people from the civil service in Kabul to participate in this year’s Oslo Forum,” adding “they are not from the political leadership of the Taliban.” At the forum, which is ongoing now, these representatives are meeting “Afghan civil society and representatives from other countries to talk about the major challenges in Afghanistan,” Huitfeldt said. Islamic…
Report in TOLOnews, June 07, 2023 at 8:01 PMIllicit drugs expert David Mansfield, in a report citing satellite imagery, said that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been reduced to levels not seen since 2001 with cultivation in the south of the country down by at least 80% compared with last year, when the Taliban banned the growing of poppies for opium. “In fact, high resolution imagery shows that in the province of Helmand poppy cultivation…
report in Dawn, May 28th, 2023 & Khaama Press, May 27, 2023KABUL: Three people were killed and many others suffered injuries after shooting broke out between Taliban fighters and Iranian border guards near a border post between Iran and Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman said on Saturday. Both sides blamed the other for shooting first. It was not immediately clear what had provoked the incident but it comes amid tensions between the two countries over water…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, May 24, 2023 at 9:04 PMThe US Department of State’s spokesman Matthew Miller said that Washington understands that the “Taliban continues to seek international recognition, but to get international recognition they have to earn legitimacy.” Miller made the remarks at a press conference in Washington D.C. “So I will say with respect to tensions between Iran and Afghanistan, I don’t have any specific comment other than that, obviously, we…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, May 20, 2023Zamir Kabulov, the Russian Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan, said that the Taliban’s participation in the Kazan Forum “absolutely did not mean” its recognition from Russia. The Russian envoy also said that the UN Security Council does not sanction the Taliban delegation that participated in the Russia-Islamic World Kazan forum event. The Taliban delegation, prohibited in Russia, is represented at the Kazan Forum by participants not sanctioned by…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, May 16, 2023Taliban’s Acting Deputy Prime Minister Mawlavi Mohammed Abdul Kabir met with the United Nations’ special representative for Afghanistan Roza Otunbaeva, and said the international community should engage with the group. Abdul Kabir, the Political Deputy Prime Minister and Khairullah Khaikhwa, the Minister of Information and Culture of Taliban on Monday met with Roza Otunbaeva at Sapedar Palace and discussed Afghanistan issues. During the visit, the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, May 17, 2023Taliban’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in a special decree has appointed Mawlawi Abdul Kabir as the acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan. It is reported that Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund the acting Prime Minister is ill and until he recovers, Mawlawi Abdul Kabir will serve as the head of the Taliban government, TOLOnews reported. Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund has served as the Prime Minister of the Taliban government…
Agencies Report in Dawn, May 3rd, 2023DOHA: UN chief Antonio Guterres made a new attack on the Taliban government’s “unprecedented” curbs on Afghan women’s rights on Tuesday as he highlighted international fears over stability in the crisis-stricken state. Meanwhile, Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi will visit Islamabad at the end of the week for talks with Pakistani and Chinese officials, his ministry said. The United Nations is reviewing its Afghan operations after the Taliban…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, May 02, 2023 at 8:36 PMUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the UN meeting in Doha “was about developing a common international approach, not about recognition of the de facto Taliban authorities.” Speaking at a press conference after the Doha meeting on Afghanistan’s situation, in which envoys of more than 20 countries and organizations participated, Guterres said that “we all understand each other’s concerns and limitations but agreed…
AFP Report in The News, May 01, 2023DOHA: UN chief Antonio Guterres will gather international envoys at a secret location in Doha on Monday in an increasingly desperate bid to find ways to influence Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Considered the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, Guterres’s quandary has been deepened by the Taliban administration’s move to stop girls from going to school and most women from working, even for UN agencies. The Taliban…