For more than two decades, Pakistan has conducted repeated counterterrorism campaigns against Taliban militants and Baloch insurgents in its western regions bordering Afghanistan and Iran. Yet the country remains caught in a
Once being one of the world’s biggest opium producer, the war-torn Afghanistan has been gradually getting out of the mire of such illicit drugs, as the farmers have been encouraged to replace
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About 79 percent of Afghanistan’s population lacks access to potable water, according to a report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Afghanistan. The report released Friday pointed out that the severe
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Puncturing the euphoria created a by section of experts that Taliban 2.0 would be strikingly different from the Taliban regime of 1996-2001, and that things would change for the better in war-ravaged
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More than 7.5 million children under five would receive anti-polio vaccines in 21 out of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a statement of the country’s Ministry of Public Health said. A total of 7,580,085
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On October 31, 2023, Taliban cadres detained and assaulted three civilians – Wasi, Idris, and Danish – during a seven-hour captivity in the Dara District of Panjsher Province. On October 27, 2023,
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The opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has dropped by an estimated 95 percent since the country’s caretaker government imposed a drug ban in April 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and
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The following article is based on a speech by the author in their capacity as the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. At the beginning of my address, I will quote the
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by Abdul Haleem Thousands of people have been left homeless in west Afghanistan’s Herat province in the wake of devastating earthquakes that struck Herat and its neighboring Farah and Badghis provinces on
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The death toll from a series of powerful earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan has climbed to over 2,000, according to a spokesperson from the Taliban government. This seismic catastrophe ranks among the
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From the euphoria of former ISI Chief Lt Gen Faiz Hamid landing at Serena Hotel in Kabul in August 2021 to a dire warning to unregistered Afghan refugees in the country, Pakistan-Afghan
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Since the Taliban’s ‘takeover’ of Afghanistan in August, 2021, the female population of the country, comprising 49.5 per cent of the total, is experiencing severe distress, torture, and violence. Their personal freedom
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Nazar Gul, an Afghan doctor respected by households far and near his village, was killed during a bombing by U.S. forces in 2019. Until now, one of his patients still keeps the
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On July 31, 2023, the Taliban detained three journalists – Najib Faryad from Ariana News, and two local journalists, Hatef Aryan and Sebghatullah Turan – in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh Province. Till the
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The picturesque Bamyan province has been striving to retain its status as Afghanistan’s tourist hub, as hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Band-e-Amir in the province, a chain of six natural lakes
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Stepping out of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility onto the road to freedom, Haji Ghalib couldn’t feel relieved. He had been jailed for four years without legal trials or charges at Guantanamo
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