The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, supporting the one-China policy, has urged Beijing and Washington to defuse tensions through appropriate means. On his Twitter handle, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi asked the US, China and other nations to…
The US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan and met the leaders of the country. The US authorities support the status quo in the Taiwan situation, Pelosi said on Wednesday during her visit to…
The United States and Saudi Arabia have underlined the importance of continued humanitarian support to the people of Afghanistan. In a joint statement issued at the end of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the oil-rich kingdom, the…
China’s permanent representative to the United Nations has again asked the US to immediately return Afghanistan its foreign assets. Zhang Jun, addressing a UN Security Council session, lamented that no progress had been made in unfreezing Afghanistan’s reserves.…
US President Joe Biden and Pakistan’s Ambassador in Washington Masood Khan have discussed the current situation in Afghanistan. The ambassador met the US president at the White House on Wednesday, a Pakistani TV channel reported. In a statement,…
The United States is selling up to 45 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves as part of the Biden Administration previously announced largest ever release. The US Department of Energy on Tuesday said the deliveries…
Tajikistan Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin and US Special Representative for Afghanistan Tomas West have discussed issues related to Afghanistan. During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on Afghanistan, combating international terrorism and extremism and other issues of mutual…
The US special envoy on Afghanistan has hit out at the Taliban government for the curbs it has imposed on girls and women. After a meeting with Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Doha on Saturday, Thomas West…
The US State Department has assumed sole responsibility for Afghan diplomatic missions in Washington and other cities, according to a media report on Wednesday. The State Department will ensure the protection and preservation of the property of these…
The United States and Pakistan have wrapped up security-level talks, covering Afghanistan and other issues, in Washington. The two sides completed their security dialogue days ahead of a meeting between their foreign policy chiefs in New York, a…
Chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff General Mark Milley has said they will take appropriate action if Daesh or other terrorist groups raised their heads in Afghanistan. Testifying before the Senate on Tuesday along with…
The US special representative for Afghanistan and a Swedish diplomat have discussed a recent wave of attacks on civilians in the war-torn country. Thomas West tweeted on Tuesday that he met Niclas Kvarnstrom, head of Department for Asia…
The United States has announced $48 million humanitarian assistance for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. US Embassy in Islamabad tweeted: “Please to note that more than $48 million of the newly announced US humanitarian assistance is for Afghan refugees…
Special envoys of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary general and the United States have discussed the situation in Afghanistan. At a virtual meeting on Tuesday, Tarig Ali Bakhiet and Thomas West conferred on a wide range…
The US president has inked bills suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, says a media report. Already passed by the Congress, the bills also prevent energy imports from Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine, the…
The American Red Cross has honoured an Afghan citizen as ‘2022 Workplace Hero’ for resettling more than 100 of his countrymen in the United States over the past three months. Samim Noorzad, manager for Commonwealth Catholic Charities Refugee…
Normalized relations between the Acting Afghan government and the international community will depend mostly on the Taliban’s actions and their delivery on commitments and obligations to the Afghan people and to the international community. It was stated in…
American defence firms, struggling to find skilled workers to build ships and weapons, have been urged to hire Afghan and Ukrainian refugees. Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of US naval operations, floated the suggestion, touting apprenticeship programmes run by…
Since their withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, US military forces have not conducted a single airstrike in Afghanistan, says a media report. Military Times quoted army officials as insisting that they still had the capability of monitoring and…
The United States has welcomed the Taliban’s ban on poppy cultivation, as well as the use and production of drugs in Afghanistan In a tweet, US Charge’ d’Affaires McCary said outlawing the production of narcotics in Afghanistan was…
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and former president Hamid Karzai have discussed the return of Afghan girls to school. West tweeted that he met Hamid Karzai on Sunday and exchanged with him views on the closure…
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) or central bank on Wednesday organized a street photo exhibition in capital Kabul to press the United States to release Afghanistan’s assets. The US government has frozen over $8 billion in assets of Afghanistan…
The United States has voiced deep concern over the Taliban’s decision to stifle the Afghan people’s access to independent international media sources. The US and the international community were paying close attention to the Taliban’s actions in Afghanistan,…
ATLANTA (Pajhwok) US President Joe Biden thinks Russia should be removed from the Group of Twenty (G20) major economies -- a topic raised during his meetings with world leaders in Brussels. “My answer is yes, depends on the G20,” Biden…
