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doha, qatar —  A United Nations-led international conference ended Monday with consensus on the goals Taliban rulers must meet but little progress on how the world should coordinate engagement with the unrecognized government. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres convened special representatives to Afghanistan from 25 countries as well as the ...

ISLAMABAD —  A United Nations study revealed Friday that approximately two-thirds (67%) of women in Afghanistan fear the rights crisis would intensify if the country's Taliban government is granted formal international recognition. The report comes ahead of Sunday's U.N.-convened conference in Qatar, where member states and regional organizations' special ...

ISLAMABAD —  The United Nations says it would like to see Taliban representatives attend a two-day international conference on Afghanistan that will take place in Qatar next week. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Wednesday the Taliban would participate in the February 18 meeting, provided they are received ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday received the credentials of ambassadors from several countries, including neighboring Afghanistan, in what amounts to the first official recognition of the interim Taliban government by a major nation. Xi welcomed Bilal Karimi, the Taliban-appointed Afghan ambassador, in a formal ceremony at the Great ...

ISLAMABAD —  Officials in Pakistan have cautioned that relentless cross-border militancy is testing bilateral relations with Afghanistan's Taliban and could eventually push Islamabad to scale back support for the de facto Kabul rulers. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces, both lining Pakistan's 2,600-kilometer (1,600-mile) border with Afghanistan, have experienced almost ...

ISLAMABAD —  The United Nations said Thursday it was deeply concerned about recent arrests and detentions of women and girls by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities for alleged non-compliance with Islamic dress code. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) warned in a statement that the crackdown is "pushing women into ...

washington —  China’s recent decision to accept the credentials of the Taliban ambassador to Beijing, without having formally recognized Afghanistan’s new rulers as the legitimate government, is both paradoxical and transactional, experts say. The Taliban foreign ministry announced December 1 that the director-general of the protocol department of the ...

ISLAMABAD —  Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to a report released Monday by a U.K.-based rights group. Afghan Witness, an open-source project run by the non-profit Center for Information ...

ISLAMABAD —  Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar demanded Wednesday that the Taliban government extradite fugitive militants who are sheltering in Afghanistan and plotting terrorist attacks against his country. Kakar told a nationally televised news conference that his country had experienced "a 60% increase in terror incidents and a ...

WASHINGTON —  Afghan Journalist Nasima Rawnaq's visa extension in Pakistan was rejected for the second time, and "no reasons given for it," she said. "Now, I do not know what to do," said Rawnaq, who fled to Pakistan in June. "I can't return to Afghanistan, as my life ...