The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold a meeting on the current situation in Afghanistan on Wednesday. UNSC in its Programme and World announced the meeting on Afghanistan would kick off at 10am (New York time). The session will include briefings from Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Sima More

Five Afghans, including two brothers, have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous gas in a coalmine in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province. The incident occurred in the Shahrag coal field in Harnai district on Saturday when six coalminers went deep into the private coalmine. As the Afghans started digging coal, methane gas accumulated inside the mine, More

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has removed its special envoy to Afghanistan Asif Durrani, says a media report. The Express Tribune reported Durrani was relieved of his diplomatic assignment with effect from 10 September, 2024. The ambass­ador has been removed from his position due to differences over the Afghanistan policy, Dawn quoted a diplomatic source More

Following a request from the host country, the embassy of Afghanistan in Oslo will be closed on September 12, officials said on Tuesday. Earlier, Afghan Ambassador in London Zalmai Rassoul, who was appointed by the previous government, wrote on X Britain had requested the closure of Afghanistan’s embassy by September 27. A statement from Afghanistan’s More

Following a request from the host country, Afghanistan will close its embassy in London on September 27, says a senior diplomat. Afghan Ambassador to the UK Zalmai Rassoul wrote on X the decision had been made on the basis of a request from the British government. Rassoul said the embassy of Afghanistan in London was More

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has expanded its investigation into America’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan, a media report said on Sunday. The powerful congressional panel had contacted three senior military officers involved in evacuating tens of thousands of individuals from Kabul in August 2021, when the IEA returned to power, an influential US newspaper reported. More

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has named Canadian diplomat Georgette Gagnon as UNAMA’s  new deputy special political representative. Ms. Gagnon brings to the position more than 28 years of experience in supporting peacebuilding processes and leading strategic initiatives on human rights, humanitarian action and development in conflict and post-conflict settings, the UN said in a More

UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett has travelled to Turkey and Qatar to assess the human rights situation in Afghanistan before 57th session Human Rights Council (HRC). HRC 57th session is scheduled to take place next week in Geneva, where Bennett will present his report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan. The rapporteur wrote on More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Afghanistan says the organization is responding to monkeypox as a high priority. WHO in Afghanistan wrote in its Facebook page what is #Mpox? Monkeypox is a viral disease that can be transmitted through close contact with an infected person or contaminated items. Symptoms include high fever, muscle pain, and skin More

The United States (US) and Uzbekistan have agreed on the fate of the military helicopters and airplanes hijacked by Afghan Air Force (AAF) pilots to the Central Asian country in 2021. US Ambassador in Tashkent Jonathan Henick told Uzbek Kun News Washington and Tashkent had reached an agreement on the status of fighter jets and More