GENEVA (AA) – The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has urged the international community to demand “progress” on the rights situation in the war-torn country still reeling from years of US-NATO occupation that ended with the Taliban taking power in August 2021. Responding to the question o...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s interior minister has rejected reports about the construction of a wall on the border with Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting in Tehran, Ahmad Vahidi said there is no plan to build a wall but to barricade the border. “There is no plan to build […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has been handed over to the Taliban administration, local media reported Sunday. Afghan envoy Ahmed Khalid Alemi, who was appointed during the period under the leadership of Ashraf Ghani, handed over his duties to Charge d’Affaires Maghfrullah Shahab, wh...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping has received ambassadorial credentials from the Afghan envoy to Beijing appointed by the interim Taliban administration. Mawlawi Asadullah Bilal Karimi was among at least 42 new ambassadors posted in Beijing who presented their letters of credentials to Xi, video footage by state-run CCTV show...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that no promise was made to grant visas and residence permits to Afghan migrants. Fidan’s comments came in response to a parliamentary question by Deniz Demir, Ankara deputy of Türkiye’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP). The question concerned allegatio...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Struggling with a broken economy, the interim Taliban administration in Kabul is seeking international aid to manage the Afghan refugee influx from neighboring Pakistan. “We call on the international community (including) Muslim countries to help,” Taliban’s nominee to the UN, Suhail Shaheen, told reporters, pointing to the rus...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Thousands of Afghan nationals are returning to their home country as Pakistan has launched a crackdown against illegal migrants. According to Pakistani officials, around 10,000 people crossed the borders on Wednesday and thousands more were waiting at checkpoints on Thursday. “Some 35,000 people have already left t...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has launched a crackdown on undocumented foreigners across the country, as the deadline for them to leave the country ended. The first group of foreigners who were arrested by Islamabad police during the last few days was deported Wednesday morning. “Today, we said goodbye to 64 Afghan nationals as they be...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday rejected Pakistan’s plan to expel “foreigners” from the country, asking Islamabad to reconsider its decision. The Taliban interim administration spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also rejected the allegations that Afghans are involved in terror activities in Pakistan. “The behavior ...
MOSCOW (AA) — Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, has said that US influence in the country was limited to manipulation, asset freezes and threats. Speaking at a news conference in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, Kabulov said the US “fled” Afghanistan and “stole, but this...
