Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Pakistan next week for discussions on a wide range of issues, including bilateral security cooperation and the situation in Afghanistan. The two-day trip, beginning on April 22, will be his first foreign visit following Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone onslaught on Israel late on Saturday. Raisi is the first More
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says a possible ban on Facebook in Afghanistan will further impede the free flow of information in the country, but the Taliban says FB has itself restricted freedom of expression and does not allow issues related to the Taliban to be published. The Committee to Protect Journalists said it More
Result-oriented discussions have been suggested between Afghanistan and Pakistan to check the poliovirus. Coordinator to Prime Minister on National Health Services (NHS) Dr. Malik Mukhtar Ahmed floated the suggestion on Tuesday. He called for Kabul-Islamabad talks on the issue during a meeting with Michael Galway and Hamid Jafri of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation More
Nine children have been killed as a result of an old mine explosion in the Giro district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Monday. Information and Culture Director Maulvi Mansour Afghan said the war-era mine exploded as children played in the Zadran village of the district on Sunday afternoon. He said the nine More
A senior American diplomat has once again taken exception to the restrictions the interim government in Kabul has imposed on Afghan girls and women. “By our count, the Taliban have issued over 50 decrees restricting what Afghan women do, where they go, what they wear, when they can be seen,” says the US chargé d’affaires More
Six Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) personnel have been wounded during a squabble with Pakistani security guards at Torkham, a media report said on Monday. Sunday’s ugly incident also led to the closure of the crossing for more than four hours, as immigration officials stopped work in protest. According to Dawn, each side blamed the other More
Pakistan reopened the Torkham gate on Sunday to passengers after closing it for three hours, officials in eastern Nangarhar province said. Torkham commissioner Mullah Abdul Jabbar Hikmat said Pakistan closed the Torkham gate for three hours. Earlier, Nangarhar Information and Culture Department’s spokesman Siddiqullah Qureshi said that the Pakistani side had once again closed the More
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has highlighted Afghanistan’s severe water crisis, noting nearly 80 percent of the population lacks sufficient access to drinking water. On the World Water Day, the UN agency emphasised almost 79 percent of Afghans faced inadequate access to water resources. The organisation attributed the crisis to severe drought conditions, economic More
Incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan has condemned Pakistan’s recent airstrikes inside Afghanistan’s soil, seeing Islamabad’s foreign policy failure behind the deterioration of relations between the two countries. The leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf political party told journalists in prison that terrorist incidents could increase in Pakistan if relations with Afghanistan deteriorated He also claimed the More
US special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West has discussed Afghanistan with Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials. West wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that he had a discussion on the future of Afghanistan with Indian Foreign Ministry Assistant Secretary G.P. Singh and another official in New Delhi. He added that India was playing More
