MONITORING (SW) – Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesperson Asim Iftikhar has said that Pakistan has been engaged with Afghanistan for the past several months through institutional channels for effective coordination and security along the Durand Line.
KHOST CITY (SW) – At least 35 people have been killed in Pakistani attacks on Khost and Kunar provinces in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has expressed concerns over reports of civilian casualties following air strikes by Pakistan in Khost and Kunar provinces.
KABUL (SW) – Pakistan’s top diplomat in Kabul has been summoned to record strong protest over aerial raid in Khost and mortar shelling in Kunar provinces.
MONITORING (SW) – The US State Department spokesman Ned Price has said the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate will face serious consequences if it does not reconsider the decision to close secondary schools and girls’ high schools ‘immediately’.
KHOST CITY (SW) – Authorities in Khost have confirmed that Pakistani forces have bombed the migrants’ camps in the province.
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations of the Islamic Emirate has announced that it will hold a quadripartite meeting to address the situation and problems of Afghan refugees in neighboring countries.
MONITORING (SW) – ‘Paktia Ghag’ or Voice of Paktia became the latest radio station to shut operations in Afghanistan amid prevailing difficult financial and political circumstances.
KABUL (SW) – Authorities claim to have made progress towards reopening the girls’ schools across the country.
MONITORING (SW) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised the global community’s focus on the war in Ukraine, arguing that crises elsewhere, including in his home country of Ethiopia, are not being given equal consideration, possibly because the people affected are not white.
MONITORING (SW) – The isolation of the Afghan economy following last August’s political crisis risks erasing development gains achieved over the past two decades, leading to grave poverty, displacement, fragility, and extremism threats to Afghanistan, the region, and the world, says the World Bank’s new Afghanistan Development Update.
KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate has rejected a New York Times report on arbitrary abductions and extra-judicial killings of former government forces and officials.
