Google locks Afghan gov’t emails to keep from Taliban: Rep...
September 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the m...
'Afghanistan has right to be recognised': Taliban spokesma...
September 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul on September 6, 2021. — AFP
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Will the Taliban regime survive?
September 6 ,2021
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By: Vanda Felbab-Brown
Afghan refugees transfer to the United States after evacuation from Kabul at an Air Base in Germany — Photo: Airman Edgar...
What will be America’s new strategy for Afghanistan?
September 6 ,2021
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By: Taha Ejaz
If you don’t like how the tables are set, simply turn over the tables. It is an old saying which appropriately defines the curren...
Afghanistan: Panjshir revolt becomes footnote
September 6 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghanistan: Panjshir revolt becomes footnote
At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing on Friday, Russian corresponde...
Using Afghanistan against China dead-end for India
September 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Illustration: Tang Tengfei/GT
India's concern over the US' debacle in Afghanistan is drawing renewed attention with growing pessim...
Women march in Kabul to demand role in Taliban government
September 6 ,2021
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By: Ali M Latifi
Recent weeks have seen the Taliban send mixed signals about the place of women in Afghan society [Hoshang Hashimi/AFP]
Dozens of w...
Pakistan yet again thrust into the eye of the refugee stor...
September 6 ,2021
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By: Arif Azad
People wait to cross into Pakistan, at Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, on Sept 2, 2021. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
In the aftermath of the fall...
Western Union to resume money-transfer services to Afghani...
September 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghans line up outside a bank to withdraw their money after the Taliban takeover in Kabul, Afghanistan, where banks are now reopenin...
Biden says era of major wars has ended
September 4 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
The US President, Joe Biden, said in his speech after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan on August 31, that the US will...
Afghanistan: To recognise, or not to recognise, that’s the...
September 4 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban takes control of Kabul Airport, August 31, 2021
At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spoke...
Have right to raise voice for Muslims living in Kashmir, s...
September 4 ,2021
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By: Sajjad Hussain
Suhail Shaheen, Taliban spokesman for its political office in Doha (file photo) | Twitter/@suhailshaheen1
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Taliban to ‘actively support’ belt and road plan of ‘trust...
September 4 ,2021
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By: Shi Jiangtao
Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in the capital Kabul on August 15. Photo: AP
Afghanistan will cont...
Will US recognize the Taliban regime ?
September 4 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
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The main question vis-à-vis Afghanistan now is: “Will the US recognize the Taliban government, now th...
India must rethink ‘wait and watch’ Afghan policy
September 3 ,2021
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By: Vivek Katju
Taliban fighters stand guard inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Talib...
‘Is Taliban a terrorist organisation or not?’: Omar Abdull...
September 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah. Photo: PTI
A day after India officially talked to the Taliban, former Jammu and...
Biden's Afghanistan pullout divides America
September 3 ,2021
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By: Wajahat S Khan
U.S. President Joe Biden walks away after delivering remarks on Afghanistan from the White House on Aug. 31. © Reuters...
Taliban says formation of new Afghan gov’t in its final st...
September 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The final US military flight has left the Afghan capital, officially ending the United States’s 20-year war in Afghanistan with...
3 reasons Afghanistan withdrawal could ruin US influence i...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Richard Heydarian
Illustration: Craig Stephens
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Gunfire fills the air in Kabul as Taliban celebrate airpor...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
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Afghanistan’s neighbours offered millions in aid to harbou...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Patrick Wintour
Afghans fleeing the Taliban enter Pakistan through the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman. Photograph: AFP/Getty Im...
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