Afghanistan sinks into poverty as nations haggle over reco...
October 15 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Afghanistan is one country in the world which seems destined not to savor independence, peace and prosperity. Currently, it is sinking...
Afghanistan: Russia draws red lines for US
October 15 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov (left) escorted by Acting Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (R) and Deput...
US to give humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Taliban say
October 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen says his group has assured the US it was committed to Afghanistan not being used by extremists to at...
Afghan embassies don’t recognise the Taliban
October 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The taliban prevent girls from going to secondary school in Afghanistan. Yet the country’s ambassador to America is a woman....
Don’t isolate the Taliban: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah...
September 28 ,2021
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By: Edith M. Lederer
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in...
Mapping Afghanistan’s untapped natural resources
September 28 ,2021
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By: Niala Mohammad & Rikar Hussein
Deep beneath the ground in one of the world’s poorest countries sits at least $1 trillion of untapped mineral resources, accordin...
Afghanistan: Pakistani diplomacy is on a roll
September 27 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Acting Prime Minister of Taliban Interim Government Mohammad Hasan Akhund and senior ministers met the special envoy...
Afghan newspapers stop printing, go online
September 25 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Afghanistan National Journalists’ Union on Wednesday reported that due to the financial crisis, around 150 print media outlet...
Why a shift in militants’ strategy could shine a positive...
September 24 ,2021
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By: Dr. James Dorsey
A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the US invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more than many counterter...
Taliban ask to participate in UNGA, nominate Suhail Shahee...
September 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Taliban have written to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres nominating their spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan’s new amb...
UK data breach puts hundreds of Afghan interpreters ‘at ri...
September 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The UK has acknowledged it left behind hundreds of Afghans eligible for relocation amid rushed mass evacuation efforts following the...
Recent decisions raise doubts about America’s reliability...
September 21 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Two recent decisions of the United States, one on Afghanistan and the other on the supply of nuclear submarines to Australia, have rais...
Putin and Imran Khan: Speaking with one voice on Afghanist...
September 20 ,2021
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By: Moeed Pirzada
Russian President, Putin, and Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan surprised the world when they spoke with one voice on Afghanistan during...
BJP plays politics on Taliban, Afghanistan & Pakistan issu...
September 20 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
File photo of PDP chief Mehooba Mufti | ANI
Accusing the BJP of playing politics over the issues of Taliban, Afghanistan and Pakis...
‘We don’t want people to be in a panic,’ says chief of Tal...
A Taliban police officer slaps a boy for loitering. Force is now supposed to be a last resort, according to Kandahar’s new vice...
Dialogues with Taliban over inclusive Afghan government st...
September 20 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Dialogues with Taliban over inclusive government underway claimed Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday. He added that he had initiated...
China’s Xi: SCO states should help drive smooth Afghan tra...
September 18 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Chinese President Xi Jinping Xi has promised to provide more help to war-torn Afghanistan [File: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]
Ch...
Dutch foreign minister quits over Afghanistan evacuation c...
September 18 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag has resigned after the lower house of parliament passed a motion of censure against the government o...
Zalmay Khalilzad: ‘I will reflect’ on what U.S. could have...
September 18 ,2021
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By: Elise Labott
Zalmay Khalilzad, special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation at the State Department, testifies in a Senate Foreign Relati...
World should incentivise Taliban instead of trying to cont...
September 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Prime Minister Imran Khan in conversation with Becky Anderson on CNN. — PTI Twitter
Prime Minister Imran Khan says there is...
Is China the reason behind US withdrawal from Afghanistan?
September 17 ,2021
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By: Umar Khalid
It is a cliché to believe that the USA has left Afghanistan as it was defeated by the Taliban and that another tomb has been add...
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