Bodies of four men hanged by Taliban in Herat By: AFP on September 25, 2021The Taliban hung the bodies of four kidnappers from cranes after killing them during a shootout in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat on Saturday, a senior official said. Herat province’s deputy governor Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Muhajir said the men’s corpses were displayed in various public areas on the same day as the killings to teach a “lesson” that […]
US denounces Taliban’s plan to reimpose amputations, executions By: Web Desk on September 25, 2021On Friday, Ned Price, the US State Department spokesperson said that Washington harshly denounces reported comments by a Taliban official who said the group would bring back the use of amputations and executions as punishment in Afghanistan. While answering to Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi’s, Price said that the acts would be massive abuses of […]
US lifts two sanctions to allow aid in Afghanistan By: Web Desk on September 25, 2021WASHINGTON: On Friday, amidst the political chaos in Afghanistan, the United States has decided to give relief to its sanctions levied on Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country. The US government, aid groups and international organizations are allowed because of the provisions “to engage in the provision of humanitarian assistance to […]
Unilateral sanctions on Afghanistan must come to an end: Wang Yi on September 23, 2021BEIJING: Wang Yi, China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister, said that the world must lift various unilateral sanctions on war-torn Afghanistan in the shortest possible time. It’s the right time to end sanctions on Afghanistan to boost the economy, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement, citing Wang at the virtual G20 foreign ministers […]
Taliban detain guards for taking off Pak’s flag from aid trucks in Afghanistan By: Web Desk on September 22, 2021KABUL: On Wednesday, the Taliban asserted that they have arrested four border guards for taking off Pakistan’s flag from aid trucks along the Torkham border in Afghanistan, according to sources. The incident of guards removing a Pakistan flag affixing to the side of an aid truck happened on Sunday and later the video went viral […]
Two Taliban among three killed in Jalalabad attack By: AFP/ Web Desk on September 22, 2021The gunmen attacked a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, killed two taliban fighters and a civilian, security sources and witnesses said. The attack in Jalalabad city is the latest on Taliban targets in Nangarhar province, which for years was the main operating base of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan chapter. A security source and witnesses said […]
Qureshi praises the Taliban govt for moving towards inclusivity By: Web Desk on September 22, 2021 UNITED NATIONS: On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi praised the Taliban government for moving towards inclusivity and adding various spokesperson of ethnicities in Afghanistan, asking the world not to leave war-torn Afghanistan alone at this climacteric. Earlier, the international community had asked the Taliban that they would be judged according to their actions and […]
Taliban ask to address UN General Assembly, names new envoy By: AFP/Web Desk on September 22, 2021 The Taliban’s new foreign minister has asked to address world leaders. He wants to address at UNGA meeting in New York, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. The ambassador of the Afghan government ousted by the Taliban last month has also requested to speak with the UN yet to decide who will represent the country […]
Girls will return to school ‘as soon as possible’: Taliban By: AFP/ Web Desk on September 21, 2021Kabul: The Taliban said on Tuesday Afghan girls will be allowed to return to school “as soon as possible”. They said this after their movement faced shock and fury over their effective exclusion of women and girls from public life. The hardliners’ spokesman meanwhile announced the remaining members of Afghanistan’s new all-male government. He revealed […]
Imran Khan praised for ‘putting humanity before politics’ By: APP on September 20, 2021ISLAMABAD: American broadcaster Glenn Beck has said that no other global leader but Prime Minister Imran Khan took an initiative to leverage his position in saving the innocent in Afghanistan and “putting humanity before politics”. “His leadership of placing humanity before politics is a great example of inter-faith cooperation, bridged by the shared value of […]