Afghan Deportations  (Situational Update April – May 2025)

Afghan Deportations  (Situational Update April – May 2025)

By Shahana Naseer / May 16, 2025
By Elsa Imdad In April 2025 alone, approximately 144,000 Afghans returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan, including nearly 30,000 who were...
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Pakistani Envoy Visits Torkham to Boost Trade and Ease Movement

Pakistani Envoy Visits Torkham to Boost Trade and Ease Movement

By Shahana Naseer / May 14, 2025
Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq held talks with officials at the Torkham town to promote trade activities and...
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Kabul assures Islamabad of peaceful border

Kabul assures Islamabad of peaceful border

By Shahana Naseer / May 12, 2025
KABUL: In the ongoing tension between Islamabad and Dehli, Pakistan's special envoy for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq Khan was successful in...
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UNAMA Details Afghanistan 2025 Struggles for Women, Media, and Minorities

UNAMA Details Afghanistan 2025 Struggles for Women, Media, and Minorities

By Shahana Naseer / May 9, 2025
By SHAHANA NASEER The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released its Human Rights Report for the first...
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Kharlachi border crossing reopens between Afghanistan and Pakistan

Kharlachi border crossing reopens between Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Shahana Naseer / May 9, 2025
The Kharlachi border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan has reopened after seven months of closure due to ethnic tensions. Officials...
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Humanitarian Fallout of Afghan Mass Deportations

Humanitarian Fallout of Afghan Mass Deportations

By Shahana Naseer / May 6, 2025
By Elsa Imdad Deporting the innocent Afghans isn’t solving a crisis, it is creating one, as families are torn from...
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Afghanistan’s envoys at UN reject UN proposal, call it ‘irresponsible’

Afghanistan’s envoys at UN reject UN proposal, call it ‘irresponsible’

By Shahana Naseer / May 5, 2025
UNITED NATIONS — Diplomatic representatives of Afghanistan have strongly criticized a new United Nations initiative concerning the country, calling the...
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Multilateral Solution, Shared Global Responsibility Can Tackle Afghan Refugee Crisis

Multilateral Solution, Shared Global Responsibility Can Tackle Afghan Refugee Crisis

By Shahana Naseer / May 2, 2025
Ambassador (retd) Asif Durrani underscored the complexity of the Afghan refugee situation in Pakistan, reminding all stakeholders that “this is...
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CHINA IN AFGHANISTAN THE DRAGON RISES

CHINA IN AFGHANISTAN THE DRAGON RISES

By Shahana Naseer / April 28, 2025
Abstract This report tracks China’s engagement with Afghanistan in recent years, pre- and post-Taliban rule in August 2021. Guided by...
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54 terrorists killed as infiltration attempt thwarted in KP: ISPR

54 terrorists killed as infiltration attempt thwarted in KP: ISPR

By Shahana Naseer / April 28, 2025
Security forces killed 54 terrorists attempting to infiltrate through the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military’s...
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Eminent Pak-Afghan Ulema Voice Support for Girls Education in Afghanistan

The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan meant that the nature of relevant stakeholders in the region had changed, and…

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AFGHANISTAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY UNHAPPY WITH PAKISTAN

In this interview with Matrix Media, veteran economist Haroon Sharif sheds light on what lies behind the Afghans’ (especially the…

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Girls’ Education: The Major Unfulfilled Commitment

Depriving Afghan girls of education was one of the Taliban regime’s systematic and devastating abuses against women, which has been…

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Pursuing Doha Agreement Must for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan

Islamabad, Sept. 21, 2022: The need for Taliban’s compliance with Doha Agreement – as a mitigation against denial of their international…

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Global sanctions – a chilling effect on Afghan infrastructure

Afghanistan has a deteriorating economy along with a hotchpotch of multifaceted perils. Food is available in Kabul marketplaces, but few…

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