Sarah Zaman VOA News July 19, 2023 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The Pakistani Taliban released an online magazine geared toward women this week. The third of its kind in six years, the magazine comes at a time when the militant group formally known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, is staging a resurgence with near-daily deadly attacks on
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 18, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A senior Pakistani envoy will travel to Afghanistan on Wednesday for bilateral talks with Taliban leaders amid growing allegations Afghan-based fugitive militants have stepped up cross-border terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Asif Durrani, Islamabad’s newly appointed special representative on Afghanistan, will hold meetings in Kabul, focusing on mutual
Khaama: Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Saturday that allowing the settlement of Afghan refugees in Pakistan was a grave mistake in light of the rise in terrorist activities by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) using Afghanistan territory. “The current situation has raised significant concerns about the facilities provided to the Afghan refugees,” he said while
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 14, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan reiterated a call for Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities Friday to rein in “terrorists” plotting assaults across their shared border after insurgents killed at least 12 Pakistani soldiers this week. “Such attacks are intolerable and would elicit an effective response from the security forces of Pakistan,” a military
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 8, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is optimistic Afghanistan’s Taliban will effectively combat cross-border terrorism to emulate the kind of cooperation that U.S. President Joe Biden recently hinted at between the de facto Afghan rulers and Washington, a senior diplomat said Saturday. Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s special representative on Afghanistan Affairs, told VOA
8am: The Taliban’s transfer of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) forces to the northern provinces of Afghanistan, as agreed upon with Pakistan, has resulted in numerous national issues and exacerbated ethnic divisions. However, this development also poses a regional alarm for the security of Central Asian countries. With the resurgence of the Taliban, the security in Central
8am: Tajikistan shares a border of over 1,300 kilometers with Afghanistan, specifically with the provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar, and Kunduz. The shared border with Afghanistan has raised concerns for Tajikistan, which have been further amplified by the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, particularly their plans to relocate the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) to the northeast
8am: Residents in the Dasht-e-Qala and Khwaja Bahauddin districts of Takhar province have expressed complaints regarding the relocation of numerous families associated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to their districts. He [Professor Shaharani] views the relocation of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members as a deliberate strategy to promote the dominance of the Pashtun ethnic group and grant
Khaama: According to the UN under Secretary General Vladimir Voronkov, Afghanistan has again become a haven for terrorists. On Wednesday, Voronkov was addressing a conference on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization counter-terrorism convention organized by Russian and Chinese missions. “The document is rather profound and informative;’ effectively shows that Afghanistan is once again slowly becoming one
8am: This program will be implemented in the central and western regions as well, which will contribute to fulfilling the dream of Pashtun chauvinism. If the Pashtun relocation program in the north is implemented as planned, it will eventually lead to the cleansing of the native inhabitants of the north. This will be carried out