Afghan women speak up against new Taliban media guidelines
November 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Women journalists work in the newsroom of the Kabul Weekly in the early 2000s [File: Ahmad Masood/Reuters]
Afghan journalists and...
Afghan Hazara elders promise support for Taliban rulers
November 26 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Several bomb attacks in recent years have killed and wounded scores of Hazaras in Kabul and other cities. (Reuters)
More than 1,00...
Taliban teetering on verge of economic collapse
November 26 ,2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Ever since the Taliban’s military takeover of Kabul, the Afghan economy has gone from bad to worse and could now be headed for a...
'Business as usual': Afghan drug trade continues under Tal...
November 25 ,2021
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By: Rupert Stone
Afghan police stand guard in a poppy field about to be destroyed outside Kandahar in 2004. (David Guttenfelder/AP)
After...
Red Cross says Afghanistan sanctions behind 'infuriating'...
November 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan men wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organised by the World Food Programme, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturd...
UN urges action to avoid 'colossal' collapse of Afghan ban...
November 23 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The United Nations has repeatedly warned since the Taliban took over that Afghanistan's economy is on the brink of a collapse. (HECTO...
China continues to offer aid, agricultural trade with Afgh...
November 22 ,2021
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By: Liu Xin
Live streamer Li Jiaqi (right) works with CCTV reporter Wang Bingbing (center) to sell 120,000 cans of pine nuts from Afghanistan on...
Afghan Taliban begin paying salaries to govt employees
November 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Saturday they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck sin...
Taliban government is steadily consolidating
November 21 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Visiting high-level Iranian officials (L) and Taliban authorities chaired by Deputy Acting Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Barada...
Afghan black market for visas thrives as embassies stay sh...
November 13 ,2021
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By: Kanika Gupta
Afghans gather outside the passport office in Kabul on Oct. 6 after Taliban officials announced they would start issuing passports&...
Pakistan hosts US, China, Russia to discuss Afghanistan
November 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, centre, poses for a photograph with the special envoys from the United States, Russia and Chin...
Taliban replace statue of Hazara leader with Quran
November 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Taliban have replaced the statue of a Hazara leader declared a national martyr by the former government with a replica of the Koran...
China looks to Tajiks to spy Afghan terror risks
November 12 ,2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A Tajik frontier guard soldier patrols the border Pyandj river at the Afghan border not far from the town of Pyandj some 220 kilomete...
The Politics of Taliban Recognition
November 12 ,2021
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By: Michael Kugelman
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with the Taliban Negotiation Team, in Doha, Qatar, on November 21, 2020.
Nearly three m...
Taliban to enforce Islamic law in Afghanistan
November 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Following the Taliban's return to power in August, the legal system remains paralysed and members are said to enforce law and order....
India hosts talks on Afghanistan, but no Afghan official i...
November 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
This photo provided by India's foreign ministry shows, from left, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhst...
Major win as Pakistan set to host US & Taliban for talks o...
November 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan is set to host the US and the Taliban to discuss the Afghan crisis currently unfolding. China and Russia will also attend the...
Justice denied for the victims of Afghanistan’s Mai Lai ma...
November 11 ,2021
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By: Andrey Kortunov
Aimal, brother of Zemari Ahmadi, stands next to the wreckage of a vehicle hit by a US drone attack in Kabul on September 18, 2021 [Fi...
US recognition of Taliban Government will be a game change...
November 11 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Pakistan extended a special invitation to Acting Interim Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi to attend the “Troik...
India bids to regain relevance in Afghanistan
November 10 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will lead the upcoming conference in Delhi on Afghanistan. Photo: Screengrab
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Afghan economy on verge of collapse
November 9 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan's economy is on the brink of collapse. And as the harsh Afghan winter sets in, many people are worried not only about how t...
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