Tolo News: Pakistan has recently cleared a legal mechanism to provide barter trade with Iran and Afghanistan as the former is under US sanctions and the latter’s bank’s reserves have been frozen by the US. Pakistan’s Dawn News reported on Friday that the decision was taken by the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet
8am: People who have been compelled to seek refuge in Iran in recent months represent their situation as a “purgatory of uncertainty.” Most of them run into problems with getting residential visas and permits in the host country and fear of being deported to Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related Dozens of
8am: The Ministry of Energy and Water has announced that the 1972 agreement on the Helmand River between Iran and Afghanistan is feasible. The Helmand River water agreement was signed in 1972 between Mohammad Musa Shafiq and Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, the then prime ministers of the country and Iran. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: An investigative report by the New York Times shows that hundreds of thousands of people have migrated from Afghanistan following the recent political changes and the economic crisis in the country. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that more than one million people had migrated to Iran from Afghanistan’s southwestern border. Click here
8am: The dispute over the Helmand water rights is a long-standing tension between Afghanistan and Iran that sometimes escalates. With the Taliban gaining power, tensions have risen again. Click here to read more (external link).
TRT World: … Taliban “have definitely not convinced Tehran and Moscow as a sure shot bankable ally,” said Kamal Alam, a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council. “This means other groups, especially NRF, remain politically very relevant.” Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Two days after the complaint of Iran’s foreign ministry saying that Iran did not receive its share of water from Helmand River last year, officials from the Afghan Ministry of Energy and Water said Iran will receive its share based on the water treaty signed by the two countries in 1973. According to
Ariana: Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Special Representative of the President for Afghanistan’s Affairs, meanwhile told Tasnim news: “I express my appreciation for the fulfillment of the promise made by the esteemed IEA [Taliban] officials to release Water right of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Kamal Khan Dam.” Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV January 17, 2022 Iranian government authorities have allowed transportation of diesel to Afghanistan through the Iranian territory amid a shortage of the fuel in the neighboring country. Iran’s former trade attaché to Afghanistan Mehdi Javanmard said on Monday that the government had agreed to a request from Afghan authorities to allow the transit
Aamaj: Former Iranian president adds that ISIS and Al-Qaeda are rapidly organizing in Afghanistan, and whenever they are ready, they will be a serious threat to Afghansitan’s all neighboring countries. Click here to read more (external link).