On again, off again: A timeline of govt-TTP talks
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The government's announcement that it is holding negotiations with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has left both analysts...
Why are Afghan refugees in Indonesia stitching their lips...
December 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Several Afghan refugees have sewn their lips shut and a 22-year-old attempted self immolation across Indonesia over the past few weeks...
Isis-K escalates terror attacks in Afghanistan and Pakista...
December 9 ,2021
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By: Tom Hussain
Members of the Taliban stand guard at the scene of an operation against Isis-K in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in November 2021.The Taliban...
Why China, Russia and US won’t save the Taliban
December 9 ,2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Afghan refugees trying to make their way to Europe. Photo: AFP
With nearly half of the Afghan population facing famine as the war-...
Russia keeps Taliban waiting as Afghanistan crumbles
December 8 ,2021
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By: Nikola Mikoic
A Taliban delegation in Doha on August 12, 2021. The regime is still struggling to gain international recognition. Photo: AFP / Karim...
Afghan women entrepreneurs defy Taliban curbs on women's e...
December 8 ,2021
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By: Shereena Qazi
As an education advocate, Pashtana Durrani has worked through her charity LEARNAfg to provide education to children in rural areas, esp...
Afghanistan: Legal challenges
December 6 ,2021
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By: Muhammad Shahzad Khan
Mpre than three months have passed since the Taliban captured Kabul. They now control the whole of Afghanistan. However, they are still...
‘Afghanistan should not become a playground of major power...
December 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Maj Gen ANM Muniruzzaman (L) makes a point at the Dhaka-Tribune-BIPSS roundtable on the impact of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan...
Afghanistan food crisis prods India, Pakistan to cooperate...
December 6 ,2021
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By: Kanika Gupta
Millions of Afghans are facing food insecurity or worse as winter approaches. (Photo by Kanika Gupta)
NEW DELHI -- The deepening h...
The Taliban’s unconvincing war on ISIS-K
December 6 ,2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A Taliban fighter watches the Twenty20 cricket trial match being played between two Afghan teams 'Peace Defenders' and 'Peace Heroes'...
West condemns Taliban over ‘summary killings’ of ex-soldie...
December 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The US has led a group of western nations and allies in condemnation of the Taliban over the “summary killings” of former m...
How a private collector saved Afghanistan’s Expo 2020 pavi...
December 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan pavilion fate was hanging in the balance after the Taliban takeover of the country in August [Faras Ghani/Al Jazeera]...
Afghan Military Pilots, on the Run, Feel Abandoned by U.S.
December 2 ,2021
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By: David Zucchino
An Afghan Air Force training exercise in Logar Province in 2018. The United States spent billions of dollars training and equipping...
UN says Afghan banking system on verge of collapse
December 2 ,2021
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By: FM Shakil
A report has warned that Afghanistan's banks could soon cease to function. Photo: WikiCommons
PESHAWAR – A United Nations ag...
America must admit more Afghan refugees
December 1 ,2021
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By: Anne C. Richard
Photo: Reuters.
The Biden administration is reviving America’s historic practice of encouraging legal immigration and wants...
PAKISTAN OFFERS TO HOST OIC FMS ON AFGHANISTAN
November 30 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan has offered to host the extraordinary meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the...
Can the Taliban keep the lights on through the winter?
November 30 ,2021
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By: Modeser Islami
It is getting dark and Zabihullah Bawar, a 34-year-old former construction worker, seems anxious as he rushes towards his old mud house...
Taliban asks EU for help with Afghanistan's airports
November 30 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Chief spokesman for the Taliban Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a gathering in which Afghan Hazara elders pledged their supp...
Afghanistan: One hundred days of solitude
November 29 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (L) met Qatari officials before talks with US/EU representatives, Doha, Nov. 27,...
Afghan economy nears collapse as pressure builds to ease U...
November 29 ,2021
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By: Christina Goldbaum
At a World Food Program health facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan, last month.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
MAZAR-...
Taliban PM: We won't interfere in other countries' affairs
November 29 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Taliban co-founder and now Prime Minister of Afghanistan Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund has pledged that his government will "not in...
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