Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday arrived in Kabul, his first visit to Afghanistan’s capital since the Taliban’s takeover of the country in mid-August. Qureshi during his stay in Kabul would hold talks with senior Taliban officials, the TOLO news reported. The two sides are likely to go over bilateral issues, crossing-points management and […]
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Afghanistan stabilised now, no country will be threatened from it: Taliban at Moscow meeting
The Taliban’s interim government’s Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi has said that Afghanistan is stabilised now and no country will be threatened by it, a media report said. Speaking at the Moscow Format Dialogue on Afghanistan on Tuesday, Hanafi said that the Taliban will ensure that there will no threat, according to TOLOnews. Calling on the international […]
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Taliban needs legitimacy at home in order to gain international recognition, says former President Karzai
Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai said that the Taliban needs legitimacy nationally in order to gain recognition by the international community. In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), he advised the Taliban to gain national legitimacy through elections or by holding a Loya Jirga (a national grand assembly), […]
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Joe Biden exempts former Taliban civil servants from terror-related bans on visiting US
US President Joe Biden on Thursday exempted the former Taliban (1996-2001) regime, civil servants, from the terror-related bans and said that they will be allowed to travel to the US. It further added that those civil-servants did humanitarian actions and continued to do so with the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and with the new […]
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Countries should seek cooperation, not make demands by putting pressure: Taliban
Referring to matters such as women’s rights, the Taliban said that the world should not make demands by putting pressure, but should seek cooperation. The Taliban appointed Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi made these remarks at an event organised by the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate […]
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Nothing changed between Taliban of 1990s and 2021: Report
More than a month has passed since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan but the state of affairs in the troubled country doesn’t appear to be any different from what was witnessed in the 1990s. In an interview with Washington-based outlet NPR, veteran Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi has refuted the claims that […]
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ISIS is a ‘headache’ not ‘threat’: Taliban
Downplaying the threat posed by ISIS in Afghanistan, the Taliban stated that saying that the group would soon be suppressed. “We don’t call Daesh a threat, but we call it a headache,” the Taliban’s Minister of Information and Culture Zabiullah Mujahid was quoted by TOLO News as saying. “It creates headaches in some places but is […]
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Afghan drug menace might worsen as Taliban indicate legalising poppy
When the Taliban overran Kabul in August, concerns were raised that the drug menace in the country could get worse. However, the group then promised to eradicate the poppy cultivation will be stopped. Cut to October, Taliban leaders have hinted that they are mulling legalisation of farming of poppy, according to a report. Afghanistan, which exports more than 90 percent […]
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Taliban representative meets Uzbek Foreign Minister, discuss energy and trade in Afghanistan
The acting Foreign Minister of Taliban Amir Khan Muttaqi on Thursday met Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov to discuss issues associated with transit, energy and trade. The meeting took place in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, Tolo News reported. “Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov on Thursday in Kabul, foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said, […]
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UK officials hold talks with Taliban on humanitarian crisis, terrorism, and rights of women
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s High Representative, Simon Gass, and Charge d’Affaires of the UK Mission to Afghanistan in Doha, Dr Martin Longden met with senior members of the Taliban and held discussions on several issues including the humanitarian crisis, terrorism, and rights of women and girls. The talks took place in […]
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Taliban resumes passport services for Afghans
The Taliban on Tuesday resumed passport services for Afghans. The interior ministry said that for the time being, the new passports will be issued with the title of “the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,” reported Tolo News. Saeed Khosti, head of the media department of the interior ministry, at a news conference said that for the […]
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Afghanistan: Taliban to begin issuing national IDs, passports soon
The council of ministers of the Taliban-led Afghanistan government on Monday announced that the issuance of national IDs and passports will start soon. The Taliban directed the Ministry of Interior Affairs to start the process of issuing national IDs and passports, TOLOnews reported. It has not been disclosed when the process will begin. This comes as thousands of people […]
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3 ISIS-K terrorists killed in security operations by Taliban in Kabul: Report
The Taliban have reportedly conducted operations in Kabul’s northern suburb, killing three terrorists of the ISIS-Khorasan branch. According to a report in Khamma Press, local residents have confirmed the shooting of lights and heavy weapons in the area. Sources of the Taliban have said that the operation was conducted to bust the hideout of […]
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Kabul faces blackout as Taliban falters on electricity bills payment
Ahead of the harsh winter season in Afghanistan, the country’s capital city Kabul could dive into darkness due to non-payment of dues of Central Asian electricity suppliers by new Taliban rulers. Daud Noorzai, who resigned as chief executive of the country’s state power authority, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), warned that the situation could cause a humanitarian disaster, The Wall Street […]
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Female instructors, students fear Taliban will never let them go back to universities
As the Taliban restrict the entry of women at Kabul University, female instructors and students at Afghanistan’s public universities increasingly fear that they will never be able get back to their classes. Cora Engelbrecht and Sharif Hassan, writing in The New York Times said that setbacks at public universities have posed another major […]