The $5 billion appeal comes as a severe drought and the toll of decades of war have plunged three-quarters of the country’s population into acute poverty, according to the United Nations.
Taliban-Pakistan Ties Run Into Trouble
Taliban’s recent confrontation of Pakistan over its fencing of the disputed Durand Line, which Afghanistan does not recognize, has taken many by surprise.
Saving Afghanistan is a humanitarian need
If the status quo continues, almost the entire country faces acute poverty. By the end of this winter, 97% of the population could be too poor to survive without aid …
Taliban’s Afghanistan-South Asian perspective
The Taliban have been urging Washington to unfreeze roughly $9.4 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank assets ..
Saving Afghanistan is a humanitarian need
If the status quo continues, almost the entire country faces acute poverty. By the end of this winter, 97% of the population could be too poor to survive without aid …
Taliban’s Afghanistan-South Asian perspective
The Taliban have been urging Washington to unfreeze roughly $9.4 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank assets ..
Don’t Let Biden Off the Hook for the Disaster He Left in Afghanistan
The media has largely moved on from the Afghanistan debacle, and many are all too eager to sweep the consequences of President Biden’s botched withdrawal under the rug. Yet the repercussions will last …
Iran calls for US to unfreeze Afghan funds amid humanitarian crisis
Following a visit by Taliban envoy Amir Khan Muttaqi to Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said it wasn’t ready to formally recognize Afghanistan’s new rulers.
Wanted TTP commander Muhammad Khorasani killed in Afghanistan
A senior security official confirmed Khurasani’s death but refused to share details about the circumstances around the high-profile killing.
The U.S. failed in Afghanistan by trying to moralize with bullets and bombs
Last August, the world watched the chaotic and painful American departure from Afghanistan. It led to a profound reckoning: how could two decades of war end in such humiliating defeat at the hands of …