The Afghan embassy in New Delhi is being led by Farid Mamundzay, who was appointed the Ambassador by the Ashraf Ghani-led government. He has continued as envoy after the Taliban took over the power in 2021.
Pentagon’s Central Command has ordered interviews of nearly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked the US forces during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
The Taliban seized power in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew after two decades of war. Their leaders are under sanctions and no country recognizes them as Afghanistan’s legitimate rulers.
Dissatisfied with the prevailing situation in Afghanistan, the former Afghan commander blamed the Joe Biden administration for abruptly leaving the war-torn country and its citizens at the mercy of the Taliban.
The border close on allegations from Pakistan that Afghan authorities reportedly started building a checkpoint on its side in a prohibited area, which Kabul has refuted.
The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, have over the past months intensified attacks on Pakistan's security forces. The TTP is a separate militant group but an ally of the Afghan Taliban.
The visa programme was kicked off in 2009 to help Afghans who helped the Americans and confronted the risks of doing so. There is a similar programme for the Iraqis. However, both programmes have been criticised for their slow progress, thus leaving the applicants in dangerous limbo.
According to the National Center for Seismology, "Earthquake of Magnitude:4.8, Occurred on 28-08-2023, 10:05:08 IST, Lat: 36.41 & Long: 70.44, Depth: 173 Km."
A week ago, Taliban Minister Mohammad Khalid Hanafi old officials and religious officials that women have not been following the proper way of wearing the hijab. "Going sightseeing is not a must for women," he said.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Justice announced a complete ban on the activities of all political parties in the country, citing their "misalignment with the interests of the people".
Although this would be a beneficial step for those airlines that are targeting Indian as well as Southeast Asian travellers, none of them dared to fly over the region amid the fact America left lethal weapons when it pulled out its forces in August 2021.
No group has yet claimed responsibility behind the blast, even as the Taliban government in Afghanistan has blamed the Islamic State in Khorasan Province - a regional affiliate of the Islamic State (ISIS) group - for previous attacks.
The brief story of IC-814 is that it was hijacked by five terrorists on December 24, 1999, 40 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu at 4 PM.
Sher Mohammad Abad Stanekzai, the political deputy of the foreign ministry, said that Afghanistan can't develop without education.
It is worth mentioning explosion in Pakistan is very frequent in the country. According to the government, the "Afghani terror" organisations were responsible for the increase in terror activities especially in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as it shares an international border with Afghanistan.
This is the latest addition to a long list of curbs imposed by the Taliban government on the freedom of girls and women since coming back to power in 2021.
The Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue also instructed the Kabul municipality to implement the new Taliban leader's decree and revoke women's beauty salon licenses.
Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in August 2021.
The group has continued to carry out attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, especially against the country’s minority groups.
Taliban authorities have announced new curbs in two Afghanistan provinces barring women from Eid celebrations.
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