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Eight militants trying to infiltrate from Afghan side killed
Dawn
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July 9, 2025
BAJAUR: Security forces on Tuesday killed eight militants attempting to infiltrate from Afghanistan into Bajaur district. Official sources said the militants were killed in Lowi Mamund tehsil after they tried to cross into the district from...
India abstains from UNGA vote on Taliban’s ‘repressive policies’, says ‘business as usual’ approach ineffective
Financial Express
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India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, abstained from voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on Afghanistan. India explained that a “business as usual” approach without new targeted initiatives...
ICC seeks arrest of Taliban leaders over persecution of Afghan women
Iran Front Page
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July 9, 2025
Judges said that there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani of committing gender-based persecution. “While the Taliban have imposed certain rules and prohibitions...
‘The Last Ambassador’: An Afghan Diplomat Without a Country
The Diplomat
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July 8, 2025
“The Last Ambassador,” a new documentary screened at Vienna’s Filmcasino in the city’s 5th district on July 1, offered a moving portrait of Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Austria, who continues to serve her people despite no longer...
Statement by AJSO Regarding the Taliban’s New Directive Severely Restricting Political Programming in the Media
Afghan Journalists Support Organization
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July 3, 2025
The Afghanistan Journalists Support Organization (AJSO) expresses its deep concern over the recent directive issued by the current rulers under the title “Policy for Managing Political Programming in Afghanistan.” This regulation constitutes a...
Pakistan cricket is in a ‘dark age’, ushered in by politics, corruption, terrorism & crumbling infra
The Print
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July 9, 2025
In February, Pakistan endured the searing disappointment of a winless campaign in the Champions Trophy, the first major International Cricket Council (ICC) tournament they hosted since 1996. The agony deepened as they were swept aside by New...
CASA Condemns Threat to TPS Protections for Cameroon and Afghanistan
Montgomery County Sentinel - Maryland
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On June 25, following the court hearing in CASA v. Noem, national immigration advocacy organization CASA stands firm in its commitment to protect Cameroonian and Afghan Temporary Protected Status holders from the dangerous and unlawful termination...
Germany must honour visa obligations to Afghans
The Express Tribune
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July 9, 2025
BERLIN: A German court ruled Tuesday that the government must issue visas to an Afghan family previously accepted under a programme for those at risk after the Taliban seized power in 2021. The new government under conservative Chancellor...
Court tells Berlin to honour visa pledges to Afghans
Dawn
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July 9, 2025
BERLIN: A German court ruled on Tuesday that the government is obliged to issue visas to Afghan nationals and their family members who were accepted into a humanitarian admissions programme that the new centre-right coalition intends to shut down....
Ottawa suppresses report exposing Canadian military's role in Afghan war crimes
World Socialist Web Site
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July 8, 2025
Recently-retired diplomat and whistle blower Richard Colvin has provided detailed evidence showing that in the first year (2006-2007) of its counter-insurgency mission in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Canada’s military secretly detained and transferred...
Doha meetings focus on Afghan private sector support
Pajhwok Afghan News
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July 8, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says recent Doha working group meetings have focused on supporting the private sector, counter-narcotics efforts, role of women in society and Afghanistan’s...
'India-Pakistan Conflict Would Be A Limited One'
Rediff
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'...without massive amounts of force.' IMAGE: Security personnel stand guard in Baramulla, May 1, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo "The modest rapprochement between India and China gives New Delhi a bit of insulation in the current crisis; with...
Arrest warrant issued for Taliban’s supreme leader over persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan
The Independent
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
IEA reacts to UNGA resolution on Afghanistan
Pajhwok Afghan News
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July 8, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has welcomed parts of a recently adopted United Nations General Assembly’s resolution concerning the country. However, the caretaker government expressed concern over the lack of...
Over 80% of Afghan refugees voluntarily return home
Tehran Times
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July 8, 2025
TEHRAN – From the beginning of the current Iranian year, March 21, till June 27, a total of 717,658 Afghans have returned to Afghanistan; more than 80 percent of them were dispatched voluntarily. According to the head of the National Organization...
Bayat Foundation provides urgent support to Afghan returnees at Islam Qala border
Ariana News
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July 8, 2025
As the number of Afghan returnees from Iran continues to surge, the Bayat Foundation has launched an emergency aid campaign at the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat province, providing critical support to thousands of displaced individuals. Dr....
Taliban's Closure Of Women's Shelters Leaves Afghan Women Vulnerable To Abuse
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
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July 8, 2025
Morsal and her three underage children live in a ramshackle outbuilding in her in-laws’ house in eastern Afghanistan. With the country’s de facto Taliban rulers cutting off almost all access to jobs for women and no welfare system in place in the...
Thomas Massie’s Anti-War Politics Put Democrats to Shame
Current Affairs
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July 9, 2025
It’s not every day that the president of the United States drops a million-dollar target on your head. But that’s exactly what just happened to Thomas Massie, the representative for Kentucky's 4th District. Massie is a Republican, but that hasn't...
Trump calls Staff Gen. Milley ‘idiot’ for leaving military equipment in Afghanistan during withdrawal
New York Post
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July 8, 2025
President Donald Trump disclosed he and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley clashed over leaving equipment in Afghanistan as the US withdrew troops in 2021. Trump, who historically has pushed to recover billions of...
Sikhs, British and Afghans: The 19th century struggle for India's north-west
India Today
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July 8, 2025
Sher-e-Punjab, as he is famously known in history, Maharaja Ranjit Singh ruled a territory that stretched from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in present-day Pakistan to Tibet in the east. The influence of the Sikh ruler and founder of the Sikh Empire was so...