 "The disastrous fallout of Taliban’s suspension of polio vaccines in Afghanistan – Firstpost")
Afghanistan is one of only two countries, alongside neighbouring Pakistan, where polio has continued to spread. So the news that the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination will probably have major consequences for the control of the disease in the country and the surrounding region read more The Taliban recently announced that they are suspending its … Read more
Host Azerbaijan invited the Afghan environment agency officials to COP29 as observers, enabling them to “potentially participate in periphery discussions and potentially hold bilateral meetings,” a diplomatic source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Because the Taliban are not formally recognised within the UN system as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, the source said, the … Read more
At least ten Iranian border police officers were killed in the Gohar Kuh area of Sistan and Balochistan province, CBS News reported on Saturday evening. The attack, which took place 1,200 kilometers southeast of Tehran, reportedly involved gunfire that targeted two police vehicles. CBS noted that photos and videos shared by HalVash, a Baloch … Read more
Luca Pferdmenges is trying to visit every country on the planet – and that means there’s no avoiding dangerous locations. So far, the 22-year-old German, a professional juggler, social media star and world traveller since the age of 15, has been to 190 nations (out of 195) – and here he reveals the countries he … Read more
A child bride’s landmark divorce from the man she was promised to at 7 years old has reportedly been revoked by the Taliban. Bibi Nazdana’s battle to become legally separated from her husband took two years. Her divorce is one of tens of thousands that were canceled just 10 days after the Taliban took control … Read more
At an event led by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Thursday, the Afghani Taliban representative shocked the audience by remaining seated during the Islamic Republic’s national anthem while everybody else stood. The scene was caught live on camera and quickly spread on social media, shining a spotlight on the already shaky relations … Read more
“It is a distressing vision for Afghanistan’s future, where moral inspectors have discretionary powers to threaten and detain anyone based on broad and sometimes vague lists of infractions,” said Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), on Sunday after the Taliban issued … Read more
The Taliban’s morality ministry has dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and have detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for “immoral acts” in the past year, officials said on Tuesday. The Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue said in its … Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has accepted the credentials from the official of the Taliban-headed interim government in Afghanistan to serve as envoy of the “Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” to Abu Dhabi. On Wednesday, August 21, Saif Abdulla Alshamisi, assistant undersecretary for protocol affairs at the ministry of foreign affairs (MoFA), received credentials from Maulana … Read more
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led foreign ministry said it had appointed its first accredited ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, the second country to accept an envoy at that level after China. The UAE foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Any foreign capital has not officially recognized the Taliban’s government, and only … Read more
