Afghanistan

India facilitating, coordinating humanitarian assistance endeavors in Afghanistan since June 2022: MEA

The Indian technical mission in Kabul has been facilitating and coordinating the ongoing humanitarian assistance endeavors since June 2022, according…

8 months ago

Islamic State in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India– will its influence decline in 2024?

With the two years of Taliban reign, experts deliberate whether Afghanistan would remain a state providing safe havens to terror…

12 months ago

Is disgruntled Pakistan targeting Afghan Taliban with a demographic bomb?

In an unprecedented move, the Caretaker Government in Pakistan, led by former lawmaker Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, had announced 1.7 million Afghan refugees…

1 year ago

Taliban slams ‘abusive’ crackdown on Afghan refugees, asks Pak to show ‘magnanimity, Islamic brotherhood’

Pakistan is using “threats, abuse, detention and coercion” to throw out Afghan refugees as the deadline for them to voluntarily…

1 year ago

Pakistan Army has retreated from Marri and other tribal areas: Baloch leader Hyrbyair Marri

Hyrbyair Marri is the leader of the Free Baloch Movement (FBM) that advocates for an independent homeland for the Baloch…

1 year ago

Over 2,000 killed in Afghanistan earthquake

The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Herat province in Afghanistan has risen to 2,025, Pajhwok News reported…

1 year ago

Afghan refugees could face serious human rights violations as Pakistan threatens to use force to evict them

Afghans are facing yet another crisis in Pakistan. Irked over Afghan Taliban’s refusal to rein in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) cadres operating…

1 year ago

Overriding tensions, can Central Asia, Iran sustain working relations with Taliban ruled Afghanistan?

Ever since the eventful return of Taliban in Afghanistan, their relations with neighbours like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Iran…

1 year ago

India joins Moscow format talks in Kazan as group focuses on rising ISIS threat, return of ‘extra-regional players’ in Afghanistan

A miffed Russia has expressed its concerns about "attempts by extra-regional players to become more active in the Afghan direction"…

1 year ago

Afghan embassy in India suspends operations, staff left

The Afghan embassy in India has suspended all operations after the ambassador and other senior diplomats left the country for…

1 year ago

India steps up humanitarian aid to Afghanistan with 1,000 new scholarships amid Chinese inroads

As China eyes to dig deep into Afghanistan, India has to revisit its role in Afghanistan and strengthen “channels” with…

1 year ago

Pakistan to repatriate Afghan refugees en masse as ties with Taliban turn toxic

Escalating tension with the neighbouring Taliban government, Pakistan has decided to evict all of Afghan refugees – numbering 1.1 million.…

1 year ago

Is China wooing Afghanistan, Iran instead of Pakistan as Plan-B to CPEC?

By briskly appointing an ambassador to Kabul, China has emitted that it is planning to reconfigure its ambitious Belt and…

1 year ago

Central Asian leaders see their future linked to Afghan transport corridors

With the Central Asian countries vying to resume their historic role as a Eurasian transport hub, the agreement on strengthening…

1 year ago

From Islamic State to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinient, radical groups fail to sway India’s youth

When the Islamic State Hind Province (ISHP) launched a magazine called Sawt Al Hind, or Voice of Hind, just after Delhi riots…

1 year ago

PM Modi and Iran’s Raisi give renewed push to new trade routes, Chabahar port and North-South corridor in arc lights

India and Iran on Thursday agreed upon fast-tracking infrastructure cooperation, focusing especially on Chabahar project and the International North-South Transport…

1 year ago

How Pakistan is now using fatwas to counter Jihadis along the Afghan border

With the rise in militant attacks targeting military, civilian and clerics, the Pakistani establishment is rushing to the base from…

1 year ago

Is defining an inclusive model in post-Taliban Afghanistan futile?

The recently concluded 22nd summit of the SCO Council of Heads of States, though held in a virtual format, gushed…

1 year ago

Afghanistan, Pakistan relations slide downhill as war of words erupts over TTP terror

The verbal war between Pakistan and Afghanistan over terrorism and the implementation of the Doha Agreement intensified over the weekend.…

1 year ago

Afghanistan bans Swedish NGOs from charitable work over Quran burning incident

Annoyed by the burning of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden on the Muslim festival of Eid,…

1 year ago

Afghanistan to Argentina, foreign mercenaries from 84 countries fighting on Ukraine’s side: Russia

Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of stepping up recruitment drives in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to attract…

1 year ago