The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) wrote on its X handle (formerly twitter) that: “A delegation of Muslim Ummah scholars and thinkers, arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul on Thursday morning August, 31, 2023 for meetings with Afghan scholars, along with ministers and officials in the government of the de facto authority in Afghanistan.” The […]
On July 3rd, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced its 2023-2025 Strategic Framework for Afghanistan that prioritizes issues related to Health, Nutrition, Education, Employment, Economic Opportunities, Social Cohesion, Inclusion, Gender Equality, Human Rights, and Rule of Law. Comment: The United Nations – despite having a pleasant while misleading name – is in […]
[فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ * وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ] “So don’t obey the deniers * They wish you would compromise so they would yield to you” [Al-Qalam: 8-9]
[وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ قَالُوا سَمِعْنَا وَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ] “Don’t be like those who say, “We hear,” but in fact they are not listening!” On 3rd April, Russia and Tajikistan militaries kicked off joint drills across the borders of Afghanistan that will last through April 7, Russia’s TASS news agency reported Monday. The drills are taking […]
Since the US occupation left Afghanistan and the Taliban government took power, Western decisions began to rise, especially after the Taliban took decisions that the West considers incompatible with its civilization and lifestyle, such as imposing the veil on women and segregating classes between males and females, in addition to other decisions. The Western media […]
Thomas West, State Department’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, in his recent remarks in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has stated: “I really do fear – and I think this is a consensus – that what we see now is a pause in 44 years of conflict and that we could see a […]
The members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) pointing to the recent attack on Gazargah Masjid of Herat province has stated that ‘Terrorism’ is still one of the serious threats to the international peace and prosperity, urging the need to fighting it. Such a stance is taken against the explosion that took place on […]
The Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a group of diplomats have travelled to Kabul to meet with officials of the Islamic Emirate and review the humanitarian aid. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesman for the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry, also tweeted that the meeting between J.P. Singh, Joint Secretary of the Indian Foreign Ministry, […]
The supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, Sheikh Hebatullah Akhundzadah, issued a decree on April 3, which will ban the cultivation, production, sale and purchase, export and import of any kind of narcotics in Afghanistan as well as treat the violators in accordance with Islamic Sharia. Besides, the decree further reads that the usage, transportation, […]
The Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations recently tweeted that: “The UN Credentials Committee met today and decided to defer its decision on Afghanistan seat at the UN. Thus, the current Mission representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan will continue its work at the UN. The Committee will present its report to the […]
The Pentagon has recently declared that the US drone strike in Kabul on August 29th that killed 10 innocent civilians, including women and children, was a regrettable mistake but was not a misconduct nor violation of rule. The attack took place near a residential area near Kabul Airport. A car suspected to be belonging to […]
The Taliban have declared that they are trying to form a new government in Afghanistan – a government that shall seek for friendly diplomatic relations based on ‘mutual respect’ with the US and the rest of the world. “The Islamic Emirate wants to have good diplomatic, economic and trade relations with the US based on […]
History has proven that any arrogant occupation has faced a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. Only in the past 42 years, two world powers (USSR, US and its NATO allies) have been forced to taste the bitter flavor of defeat in this land.
On Tuesday, August 3, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, over a phone conversation with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, reiterated the United States’ strong and enduring commitment to Afghanistan. The statement of the US State Department declared that both sides in addition to condemning the Taliban attacks (as a result of which the people’s life […]
On July 2, Joe Biden, the US president was pressed with series of questions during a press conference by reporters on US troops’ withdrawal from Bagram Airbase. Biden seemed to be extremely irritated by these questions and told them: “I’m not going to answer any more questions about Afghanistan. I want to talk about happy […]
Joe Biden recently announced his $715 billion defense budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which also included $3.3 billion in aid to Afghan forces. The new offer is $300 million more than the US provided last year to Afghanistan. In addition to military aid, Afghanistan will also receive further assistance from the US Department of […]
In his first speech to a joint session of Congress, US President Joe Biden addressed that: “War in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking of nation-building. We went to Afghanistan to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. We delivered justice to Osama bin Laden and degraded the terrorist threat of […]
In his recent address to the Congress, US President Joe Biden has remarked that: “It’s time to end America’s longest war.” “We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result. We can’t justify keeping our military presence […]
During his recent trip, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has handed a draft of the interim government plan in Afghanistan with the Afghan government and a number of Afghan political leaders. This ten-page draft plan envisions several possible scenarios concerning the formation of ‘interim government of peace’. Based on the plan, […]
During the first Bonn Conference in 2001, where four major Afghan parties were invited to shape the political future of Afghanistan, two main political fronts, i.e. the Hizb e Islami of Afghanistan and the Taliban Movement, were secluded from the event by the US. Such a scenario had explicitly meant to provoke a potentially robust […]
