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Afghan miners dig inside a tunnel of a gold mine in the mountains of Yaftal Sufla district in Badakhshan province. | Photo Credit: AFP Tearing off a piece of mouldy flatbread, Homayon gulped tea in a brief reprieve from the din of the machines he and a dozen other men were using to dig for…
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Taliban Afghan Foreign Affairs in-charge Amir Khan Muttaqi. File | Photo Credit: AP A senior Indian diplomat has met with ‘Afghan authorities’ in Kabul, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed on Friday. The development came months after the embassy of Afghanistan here that was earlier run by officials with affiliation to the pre-Taliban government…
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Afghan women are barred from visiting the museum. Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan: Alongside antique Korans and ancient Afghan coins, rocket launchers and homemade bombs are displayed in a Mazar-i-Sharif museum as a testament to the Taliban’s victory over foreign soldiers. “It doesn’t have any old history, but it all played an important role in the victory,” says…
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Afghan refugees arrive in trucks to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on October 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Afghanistan’s Taliban government has urged Pakistan to give undocumented Afghans in the country more time to leave as pressure mounts at border posts swarmed by thousands of returnees fleeing the threat of deportation. The Pakistani…
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Some 60,000 Afghans have returned between September 23 to October 22 from Pakistan Karachi: As the clock ticked down to the November 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us…
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China has boosted engagement with the Taliban (Representational) Kabul: The Taliban will attend China’s Belt and Road Forum next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, underscoring Beijing’s growing official ties with the administration, despite its lack of formal recognition by any government. Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those…
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India will take control of the Afghanistan embassy in a caretaker capacity. New Delhi: The Afghanistan embassy in India today suspended operations citing an inability to serve the country’s interests and a shortage of staff and resources. India will take control of the embassy in a caretaker capacity, the statement by the embassy said. The…
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India will take control of the Afghanistan embassy in a caretaker capacity. New Delhi: The Afghanistan embassy in India today suspended operations citing an inability to serve the country’s interests and a shortage of staff and resources. India will take control of the embassy in a caretaker capacity, the statement by the embassy said. The…
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The Afghan embassy in New Delhi was led by Ambassador Farid Mamundzay. New Delhi: The Afghanistan embassy in India has announced that it will suspend its operations from today, citing “lack of support” from the Indian government, its inability to meet expectations in serving Afghanistan’s interests, and a shortage of staff and resources. The Afghan…
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A security officer walks outside the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi on September 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP After months of uncertainty, the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan here has finally shut down. In a message shared with the media, the mission that ran on skeletal staff and without the presence of…
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