UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the UN body that supports peace efforts in conflict-affected countries, to expand its coverage to include Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir. “Peacebuilding is a growth industry,” Ambassador Munir Akram told the UN General Assembly which debated the
UNITED NATIONS: The multiple restrictions placed on women and girls by the Taliban authorities are costing them “both domestic and international legitimacy” and are highly unpopular across Afghanistan, the top UN official based there said Thursday. UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council
WASHINGTON: Recent border tensions between Iran and the Taliban government in Afghanistan have resulted in the death of several military personnel from both sides and exposed deep historic and recent fissures between the two nations. Though both governments have taken measures to quickly de-escalate tensions, the
Sydney: An Australian court has found that Ben Roberts-Smith, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, probably killed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan as three newspapers reported in 2018. Roberts-Smith, a former soldier with the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SASR), sued the Sydney Morning Herald,
Kabul: Two top rights groups on Friday slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan as gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity. In a new report, Amnesty International and the International Commission for Jurists, or ICJ, underscored how
Sofia: Bulgarian authorities discovered the bodies in a secret compartment below a load of lumber in the back of a truck left on a highway. The bodies of 18 Afghan migrants who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria were returned to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Wednesday,
United Nations: Roughly 90 per cent of the population in Afghanistan is on the brink of poverty “and children bear the brunt of it,” the Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the country, Fran Equiza, told reporters in New York. “Because, in what is
Beijing: China on Wednesday called on Afghanistan to reform its radical policies excluding women from education and public life and “adopt a more resolute attitude in combating terrorism.” The comments from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin came on the heels of a Pakistan-hosted mini-summit of China,
Beijing: The foreign ministers of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan reaffirmed their resolve to harness Afghanistan’s potential as a hub for regional connectivity and their commitment to trilateral cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and jointly expand China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson,
Beijing: State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Pakistan from May 5 to 6 and attend the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue in Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Mao Ning announced on Thursday. Sharing the relevant arrangements for the visit, she said that this is