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...
Afghanistan envoys marooned abroad after Taliban’s sudden...
September 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Taliban’s abrupt return to power has left hundreds of Afghan diplomats overseas in limbo: running out of money to keep missio...
Trump administration, not Pakistan, enabled Afghan Taliban...
September 17 ,2021
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By: Anwar Iqbal
US Representative Chris Van Hollen speaks during a session called "The New Congress" at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council meeting...
Afghan Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar among Time's 100...
September 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, has been named among the "100 Most Influentia...
US abandonment of Afghanistan could lead to Sino-Indian de...
September 17 ,2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Afghan’s trying to get into Kabul airport.
After America withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in a frightful hurry, call...
Many factors made the Afghan war calamitous
September 17 ,2021
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Although the Taliban had no hand in the barbarous 9/11 attacks (15 out of 19 attackers were Saudis), their connection was the presence...
Afghanistan: India’s ‘over-the-horizon’ dilemma
September 16 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Pentagon claimed its “righteous strike” by a Reaper drone on Aug. 28 in Kabul killed an ISIS terrorist who turned out to...
Afghan chaos mounts as ISIS-K tries to tarnish Taliban tri...
September 16 ,2021
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By: Zia Ur Rehman
Kabul street patrol: As the Taliban seeks accommodations with the West and China, it is being pilloried by remaining jihadis in...
Aid for Taliban-led Afghanistan poses dilemma for West
September 16 ,2021
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By: Moyuru Baba, Tsukasa Hadano and Momoko Kidera
The Taliban's actions have raised skepticism about its promises to respect women's rights. (West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
Uni...
The political role of Sufi mystics in Afghanistan
September 16 ,2021
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By: Fizza Batool
Since the Taliban swiftly took Kabul in August, Afghans and Afghanistan watchers have been grappling with what the shape and nature of...
Perilous situation for Afghan allies left behind shows a r...
September 15 ,2021
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By: Shelley Inglis
A commercial airplane is seen at the Hamid Karzai International Airport a day after US troops withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan August...
Afghanistan tops laundry list of challenges at U.N. debate
September 15 ,2021
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By: hiona shiraiwa
The United Nations Headquarters in New York: global leaders will be returning to the building after a mainly online General Assembl...
Girls of Afghan football team to get Pakistan’s protection
September 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
32 girls of Afghan football team urged Pakistan PM Imran Khan for protection as they feel threatened from perceived Taliban wrath. The...
Taliban probing bank accounts linked to Afghan ex-official...
September 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The investigation may lead to the freezing of assets and accounts of former civil servants, ministers and lawmakers.PHOTO: EPA-EFE...
Afghanistan: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
September 15 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The title of an unputdownable 1980 classic by Peter Hopkirk comes to mind even as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Colle...
Donors pledge $1bn in aid for Afghanistan as UN warns of c...
September 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Children pose for a photo as they play in a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]
Donors have pledg...
UNSC watch: Divided security council faces need for new ma...
September 14 ,2021
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By: Devirupa Mitra
A conference officer adjusts the microphone ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan. Photo: UN Photo/Ma...
S Jaishankar to participate in key meeting on Afghanistan...
September 14 ,2021
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By: Rezaul H Laskar
External affairs minister S Jaishankar will travel to Tajikistan this week to participate in a key meeting on Afghanistan and hold talk...
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