Afghanistan
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Former Pakistani Diplomat: Islamabad’s Security-First Afghanistan Policy Has Failed
DID Press: Former Pakistani ambassador and Georgetown University adjunct professor Touqir Hussain has criticized Islamabad’s decades-long approach toward Afghanistan, arguing that treating the country primarily as a security challenge has failed and contributed to deeper instability and increasingly complex relations…
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Aisha Wahab Sworn In as First Afghan American in US Congress
DID Press: Aisha Wahab was sworn in on Wednesday as the first Afghan American to serve in the U.S. Congress, formally taking her seat in the House of Representatives for California’s 14th Congressional District. Wahab, 39, won a special election…
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Pakistan Says Ties With Kabul Depend on Action Against TTP
DID Press: Pakistan has said meaningful progress in relations with Afghanistan will depend on the Taliban taking “concrete and verifiable” action against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and other militant groups Islamabad says are operating from…
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Taliban Leader Orders Arrest and Prosecution of Traffic Accident Offenders
DID Press: Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s leader, has ordered the Interior Ministry to arrest those responsible for traffic accidents on Afghanistan’s highways and refer them to the relevant courts without exception. According to a five-article decree reportedly published by the…
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Taliban: No Political Prisoners Held in Afghanistan’s Prisons
DID Press: Taliban says more than 15,000 people are currently imprisoned in its detention facilities across Afghanistan, but none of them are political prisoners. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, said there are no political prisoners in the group’s prisons and…
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Qatar Envoy Reaffirms Continued Cooperation with Bamyan
DID Press: Qatar’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Murdaf Al-Ghashouti, visited Bamyan province and met with Qari Gul Haider Shafaq, the Taliban-appointed governor, to discuss economic and development cooperation. According to the Bamyan governor’s media office, the Qatari envoy reaffirmed his country’s…
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500-Kilogram Bomb Left From War Defused in Kabul
DID Press: Technical teams from Afghanistan’s Disaster Management Preparedness Authority have discovered and safely neutralized three pieces of unexploded ordnance in Farza and Mir Bacha Kot districts of Kabul province, including a 500-kilogram bomb. The authority said in a statement…
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Taliban Minister Blames Afghanistan’s Ethnic Divisions on Foreign Interference
DID Press: Noorullah Noori, the Taliban’s acting minister for Borders, Ethnicities and Tribal Affairs, has claimed that ethnic divisions in Afghanistan were largely the result of interference by foreign intelligence networks and what he described as “occupiers.” Noori said there…
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Austria Deports Convicted Afghan Asylum Seeker to Kabul
DID Press: Austria has deported a 26-year-old Afghan national to Kabul via Istanbul after he was convicted of serious property and drug-related offences, the Austrian Interior Ministry said. The man was deported from Vienna on August 31 and was accompanied…
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Afghanistan’s Bank Deposits Climb to Nearly $3 Billion
DID Press: Public savings held in Afghanistan’s banking system have risen to nearly $3 billion, the Afghanistan Banks Association said, pointing to growing public confidence in the country’s financial sector. Najibullah Amiri, head of the Afghanistan Banks Association, said the…
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