India and the EU need to speak up together about human rights in Afghanistan says the European Union’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson, who visited Delhi for consultations on the way forward. In an interview to The Hindu, Mr. Niklasson said the Taliban’s increased restrictions on women and the ban on girl’s education is …
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin and agreed to continue working towards implementing the India-Russia strategic partnership. According to the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Doval, who is currently in Moscow for the fifth multilateral meeting of Secretaries of the Security Councils and National Security Advisors on Afghanistan, also …
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, decided to highlight President Biden’s failures in Afghanistan since his return to the US by inviting former Afghan ambassador Roya Rahmani as his guest at the State of the Union address took. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., a Marine veteran, invoked Shamsrahman “Shams” Rahmani, an Afghan civilian who …
America return from afghanistan August 2021 paves the way for China to move forward and deepen its influence in the country and the wider region. While most of the international community has shied away Taliban China has little to say about the Taliban’s bleak human rights record for its antiquated policies, especially towards women. Chinese …
Najam Sethi, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s management committee, on Sunday confirmed that Pakistan will play a three-match bilateral T20I series against Afghanistan by the end of March. Sethi said the T20I series would help Afghanistan make up for the loss caused by Cricket Australia’s withdrawal from the scheduled ODI series in the United …
Thirty years ago, Imran Khan led the Pakistani national team to victory in the Cricket World Cup, cementing his place as one of the greatest athletes in the history of the sport and a hero to his country. He retired at the age of forty-nine. Four years later, in 1996, he founded a political party …
CNN , US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the US is imposing new visa restrictions on some current and former members of the Taliban, members of non-state security groups and others believed to be fighting women and children in Afghanistan. Involved in suppressing the rights of girls. , The announcement comes …
Parents of Amrullah, who died of cold, pray at his grave on January 31, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reuters Kabul: Shamila has no picture of her son who died in her arms in the bitter cold at their home in Kabul this month, but she remembers his face clearly. “He had a white and shiny …
Islamabad, Pakistan CNN , death toll from a suspect suicide bomb Monday’s attack on a police compound at a police compound in northwest Pakistan brought the toll to at least 88, as the Pakistani Taliban made conflicting claims of responsibility in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in years. Mohammad Asim Khan, a …
comment on this story Comment KABUL, Afghanistan – Malnourishment rates are at a record high in Afghanistan, with half the country suffering from severe year-round hunger, a spokesman for the World Food Program said Thursday. The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and starvation when foreign aid stopped almost overnight. Restrictions on …