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ISTANBULPakistan on Thursday said Wakhan Corridor was Afghan territory, ending any speculation regarding the sovereignty of the mountain pass, connecting the landlocked nation to China through Xinjiang.“I have seen this endless speculation. Wakhan is part of Afghan territory. Afghanistan is a neighboring country. We recognize its sovereignty and territorial ...

On Sunday, Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders not to "legitimize" Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. Yousafzai made the comments at a summit on girls' education in Muslim countries in Islamabad, Pakistan, organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Muslim World League.Yousafzai became a Nobel Laureate ...

ISLAMABAD  —  Nobel Peace Prize laurate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders Sunday not to “legitimize” Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, accusing them of being the “perpetrators of gender apartheid” and calling for accountability. Yousafzai spoke at the closing session of a Pakistan-hosted international summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities around ...

ISLAMABAD —  A high court in Pakistan prohibited authorities Friday from forcibly deporting Afghan musicians and singers until their asylum cases are resolved within the next two months. The ruling comes amid a crackdown on hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring Afghanistan who either lack legal permits to ...

ISTANBULAfghanistan’s interim Taliban administration began distributing land Thursday among repatriated Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran, said officials."Returnees deserve to receive land for agriculture and building houses," Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban administration’s nominee to the UN, told Anadolu by phone from Kabul.He said the administration, which was established after ...

The Taliban rejected a Pakistani official’s claim that the group asked for money to remove Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan fighters from the border areas and move them to other parts of Afghanistan. The Taliban’s spokesperson, Hamdullah Fitrat, told local media that the allegations were unfounded. Click here for the full story ...

Source link www.rferl.org Violence against women and girls is pervasive across the world, and often underreported. Rampant physical, sexual, and psychological violence is part of what activists have called a global attack on women's rights.Nowhere is that more apparent than in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has erased women from ...

KABUL, Dec 28: Heavy clashes erupted between Afghan and Pakistani border forces at border crossing points, killing 19 Pakistani soldiers and three Afghan civilians, local media reported on Saturday.The fierce clashes are ongoing in eastern Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktia provinces bordering Pakistan, TOLOnews reported, quoting ...

Afghan Taliban forces targeted "several points" in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan's defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside Afghanistan.The statement from the Defence Ministry did not specify Pakistan but said the strikes were conducted "beyond the 'hypothetical line'" - an expression used ...

When the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed delivered a triumphant news conference at the Torkham crossing with Afghanistan. He claimed that the Taliban’s swift ascendance to power would create “a new bloc” and the region would reach great global importance. ...