Ankara, 20 August 2021 (Anadolu News) Prof. Fazl Hadi Wazin, teaching in Kabul University and contested for Vice President last year warns that isolating Afghanistan means pushing 35 m people to terrorism.  He called on the international community and regional powers to give the Taliban a chance to run Afghanistan for the sake of peace...

Ankara, 20 August 2021 (Anadolu News) Turkey is ready to hold talks with the Taliban if necessary, the country’s president said on Friday. “If there is a knock on our door, we will open it for dialogue,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul. He criticized the Western world and Islamic states...

Islamabad, 17 August 2021 Federal Minister for Information of Pakistan, Fawad Chaudhry said today that Pakistan will not take unilateral decision in recognition of Taliban government in Afghanistan. He was briefing the media after Pakistan's federal cabinet meeting which reviewed developments in neighboring Afghanistan. He said that Pakistan was a responsible part of the international...

Washington, 16 August 2021 President Joe Biden on Monday in his address to the US nation at the White House East Room said he 'stood squarely behind' his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and rejected broad criticism of the chaotic withdrawal that is posing a crisis for him. Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, the...

Kabul, 15 August 2021 Afghan Taliban forces once again took over charge of presidential palace in country's Capital city after 19 years and 10 months loosing into the hands of invading US-NATO forces in October 2001. President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan this morning as Taliban closes in on Kabul early today, according to the country’s...

12 August 2021 (AlJazeera News) Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city, has fallen to the Taliban, residents and local journalists said, becoming the eleventh provincial capital to be captured by the armed group in recent days. Earlier on Thursday, the armed group took control of Ghazni, the capital of Ghazni province, about 130km (80 miles) southwest of...

Doha, 11 August 2021 (QT) A three-day talk session on Afghan negotiations between Extended Troika group and the Taliban-Afghan government delegates kicked off in Doha at the Hotel Grand Sheraton. The meeting is being hosted by Qatar. The first session of talks among the Extended Troika group members continued for almost three hours on the...

Albany, New York, 10 August 2021 Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, who has been lauded on his services during pandemic Covid-19 has resigned Tuesday after finding him sexually harassed 11 women, including current or former state employees. New York Attorney General, Letitia James issued a report in beginning of the month charging Andrew Cuomo sexually...

Doha, 09 August 2021 A three day international meetings on Afghan peace will be held from August 10-12 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel Doha.  Russian News Agency TASS had reported in last week of July referring Special Russian Presidential Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov announcing the meeting of the Extended Troika comprising Russia, China, the...

Islamabad, o8 August 2021 A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) visited the Line of Control in Azad Kashmir on Saturday to assess the human rights situation in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Pakistani military’s media wing said in a statement. The 12-member delegation of the OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) were “given...