Akmal Dawi VOA News February 21, 2024 Sixteen months after its establishment, the U.S.-backed Fund for the Afghan People has yet to release any payments for its intended purposes, a board member reveals. The fund, created using half of Afghanistan’s frozen assets in the United States, aims to help stabilize the Afghan economy without benefiting
Khaama: The Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States House of Representatives called the escape of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as “cowardly.” Michael McCaul agreed with Zalmay Khalilzad’s assertions regarding the failure of the former leaders of the Afghan government to maintain order, stating, “I agree, Ashraf Ghani’s actions and escape
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 14, 2024 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations says it would like to see Taliban representatives attend a two-day international conference on Afghanistan that will take place in Qatar next week. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will host the meeting starting February 18, with member states and regional organizations’ special envoys on Afghanistan
Akmal Dawi VOA News February 13, 2024 The number of Afghans granted Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, for resettlement in the United States increased by more than 100% last year, according to new U.S. government data. In 2023, about 26,500 SIVs were granted to Afghans — more than double the previous year’s total of 11,000
Khaama: Former US Ambassador Ryan Crocker asserts that the upcoming international meeting on Afghanistan in Doha won’t grant legitimacy to the Taliban’s government. Crocker told Voice of America that the United Nations, as the meeting’s host, should clarify that the Taliban regime doesn’t deserve recognition and shouldn’t be considered a legitimate government. Criticizing the Biden
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 12, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Monday that two of its nationals who were detained and rendered to the United States-run prison in Guantanamo Bay more than 20 years ago had returned home. An Interior Ministry spokesman said on his X social media account that Abdul Karim and
AP: Two Afghan prisoners who were held in U.S. custody for at least 14 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center after 2002 were released from house arrest in Oman, a Taliban spokesman said on February 11. Abdul Zahir Saber and Abdul Karim were released as a result of the efforts made by Afghanistan, a
Michael Hughes: In these pages in August of 2022, a year after the fall of Kabul, this author suggested the botched Afghan exit may have sent Joe Biden’s poll numbers plummeting “irretrievably.” That may still be true, unless somehow his job approval rating miraculously bounces back between now and the end of his term. The topic
Khaama: US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s foreign reserves would continue to be frozen beyond February 11. This decision stems from Biden’s initial executive order issued on February 11, 2022, addressing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and its associated threats. The original executive order, issued by Biden on February 11, 2022, highlighted