A video has ricocheted around social media that purportedly shows a number of people throwing packages of opium and other narcotics into the Iranian side of the border from Afghanistan.
An international conference on Afghanistan organised by the United Nations has ended in Qatar's Doha with no formal acknowledgment of the Taliban. At the end of the meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was not the right time for him to directly engage with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.
A United Nations Security Council committee has agreed to allow the Taliban’s interim foreign minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan to meet with Pakistani and Chinese top diplomats, according to reports.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has not invited the Taliban administration to a meeting he is holding with special envoys on Afghanistan from various countries in Qatar's Doha next week, a UN spokesperson has stated.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously condemned a ban by the Taliban on Afghan women working for the UN in Afghanistan, calling on the Taliban leaders to “swiftly reverse” a crackdown on the rights of women and girls.
Taliban fighters have killed the senior Daesh group leader behind the fatal suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport in August 2021, according to the father of a United States Marine killed in the attack who was briefed on Tuesday by military officials.
Two explosions have rocked a counterterrorism facility in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 50 others, police have confirmed.
A UN-convened meeting on Afghanistan next month in Qatar will not focus on the possible international recognition of the Taliban administration, a UN spokesperson has stressed after comments by the deputy UN chief sparked concern and confusion over the issue.
Retailers say sales in Pakistan have witnessed a sharp drop compared with previous years in the run-up to the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, as shoppers feel the pinch of decades-high inflation.
The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres is convening an international meeting on Afghanistan in May in Qatar's Doha, where envoys will seek a "durable way forward" for the war-torn nation, his spokesman has said.
Iran’s ex-ambassador to Afghanistan says the interim Taliban rulers are behind the drying up of the Hamoun wetlands in eastern Iran by cutting the flow of Hirmand River waters into the Iranian side of the border and diverting the waters through a dam to their opium fields.
The watchdog for US assistance to Afghanistan has warned lawmakers that American aid to the country could be flowed to the Taliban as he accused the administration of President Joe Biden of stonewalling his efforts to investigate.
The United Nations is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it can’t persuade the Taliban to let local women work for the organization, the head of the UN Development Program has announced.
A huge landslide in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least three people, wounding several others and burying nearly two dozen vehicles, officials have announced.
The Afghan branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alarm over the infant mortality rates in the country. WHO says around 170 babies die each day in Afghanistan.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian of Iran says he held four-way talks with his counterparts from China, Russia and Pakistan over Afghanistan’s problems on the margins of a regional summit of the crisis-hit country’s neighbors in Uzbekistan.
The US government has defended its decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, blaming it on the administration of former president Donald Trump. A report released by the government agencies says the 2021 exit highlighted that Washington must better prepare for “high-risk scenarios” in the future.
A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stated that the Taliban are banning Afghan women from working for the United Nations in the country, the latest curtailment of women’s rights since the group took over Afghanistan in 2021.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says death threats will remain a constant part of his life until he can return to power and hold his would-be killers accountable.
Washington reportedly plans to send more advanced combat aircraft to Asia, as part of a pivot away from the West Asia region to focus on the great power rivalries with China and Russia.
At least 13 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit areas across Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the tremor felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi.
