by Our Correspondent in Doha In a significant move, the Ministry of Information and Culture of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) has announced the ban of several books, including Kitab Al-Tawheed
On December 2, Taliban’s Supreme Court announced that, on the orders of Supreme Leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, a man, identified as Mangal, was publicly executed at a stadium in Khost city, the provincial
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The late-November 2025 incidents involving Afghan evacuees from Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) exposed deep structural weaknesses within the United States’ (US) security and immigration systems. The attack by Rahmanullah Lakanwal – an evacuee who
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A senior military officer has told an independent inquiry that a cover-up of potential war crimes committed by UK special forces in Afghanistan appeared to stem from a “conscious decision” by the
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For more than a decade, the CIA secretly waged an unconventional war on Afghanistan’s opium trade, using a highly classified program to airdrop billions of specially bred poppy seeds over fields in
More In Afghanistan today, the mere mention of the Taliban’s “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” — the so-called religious police — is enough to send women and girls trembling. Ostensibly tasked
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On Wednesday, a high-level delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led by intelligence chief Abdul Haq Wasiq, arrived in Istanbul for the third round of talks with Pakistan. The discussions, between
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The state cannot take Decisions abruptly overnight; it follows a series of processes to identify enduring strategic objectives. For that matter, viewing Pakistan’s October 9 strikes on Afghanistan as a counter-response to
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Water, the lifeblood of civilizations, is growing rapidly as the new instrument of power in South Asia. Afghanistan’s recent pronouncements about building dams on the Kunar and Kabul rivers are more than
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In diplomacy, most declarations fade with the ink that seals them. Yet the Joint Declaration in Türkiye stands apart—a moment when Pakistan transitioned from quiet endurance to principled assertion. Under the mediation
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The U.S. government has asked a judge to deport a father of two to Afghanistan, where he fears the Taliban would likely kill him, despite the fact that he has not been
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