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Afghan media outlets, citing a representative of the Taliban government, report the detention of two individuals in connection with the killing of Chinese nationals in Tajikistan’s border regions. asiaplustj.info »
On December 1, Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon held a working meeting with heads of the country’s security and law enforcement agencies to discuss the situation along the Tajik–Afghan border and consider ways to strengthen its protection. asiaplustj.info »
The United States has announced a suspension of Afghan immigration applications following a shooting incident near the White House on November 26, in which two National Guard members were killed, according to RBC . asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s border forces have reported the successful elimination of a group of drug smugglers from Afghanistan using a domestically produced drone — marking the country’s first known use of unmanned aerial technology in a live border security operation. asiaplustj.info »
Afghan media outlets have reported a visit by a “high-level delegation from Tajikistan” to Kabul. According to the Bahhtar news agency, which is affiliated with the Taliban government, the delegation included representatives from Tajikistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, security agencies, and other government bodies. asiaplustj.info »
At least 49 Afghan individuals connected to British operations were killed after a major data breach by the UK Ministry of Defense, according to a new study presented to Parliament, The Khaama Press News Agency reported on October 28. asiaplustj.info »
Intense clashes broke out along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late Saturday night, following a reported Pakistani airstrike in Kabul earlier last week. Reuters reported on October 11 that both sides exchanged heavy fire across multiple locations, with each accusing the other of initiating the conflict. asiaplustj.info »
The Taliban have started suspending fiber-optic internet services across Afghanistan’s provinces, claiming the move is intended to “prevent vice,” according to Khaama Press . Authorities in the northern province of Balkh were the first to confirm the measure. asiaplustj.info »
Over the past month , almost 1,000 Afghan refugees have been forcibly deported from Tajikistan . This was announced in a report by the International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) . asiaplustj.info »
Four years after the Taliban’s return to power, Afghan women and girls face sweeping restrictions that have stripped them of basic rights and opportunities, deepening poverty and worsening a humanitarian crisis, UN Women and UNICEF warned in a joint statement, according to UN News Center . asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan authorities have confirmed the deportation of several Afghan nationals, explaining that the move was due to violations of the country's laws regarding the stay of foreign citizens. asiaplustj.info »
The head of the Afghan Refugee Committee in Dushanbe, Musavvir Bahaduri, has denied recent claims about the forced deportation of Afghan nationals from Tajikistan. Speaking to Asia-Plus , Bahaduri said the reports are unfounded and emphasized that no refugees have filed complaints with the committee regarding forced expulsion. asiaplustj.info »
The government of Tajikistan has issued a sweeping order giving Afghan refugees just 15 days to leave the country, igniting alarm among thousands of asylum seekers, many of whom possess legal residency documents. asiaplustj.info »
The body of the two-year-old Yosamin, one of four children reportedly thrown into the Surkhob River by their mother in Khatlon’s Farkhor district, was discovered eight days later on the Afghan side of the Panj River. asiaplustj.info »
Central Asian countries, including Tajikistan, are facing a new wave of drug-related challenges as synthetic substances such as methamphetamine, pregabalin, and nitazenes increasingly replace Afghan heroin. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) has dismantled a transnational narcotics trafficking group originating from Afghanistan, seizing nearly 58.5 kilograms of illegal substances, the SCNS’s public relations center reported . asiaplustj.info »
A number of Afghan industrialists and traders are worried about Israeli airstrikes on Iranian ports and the possible damage to their goods. As Israeli attacks on Iran continue, the Herat’s Chamber of Commerce and Investment (CCI) has expressed concern over the goods belonging to Afghan traders and industrialists stored in Iran’s Bandar Abbas, TOLOnews reported on June 18. asiaplustj.info »
Afghan media, citing Taliban representatives, have reported that eight Afghan workers were reportedly killed in an explosion at a coal mine in northern Tajikistan. Tajik authorities, however, have not confirmed or commented on the accident. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office requested yesterday that the Supreme Court ends a ban on the Taliban’s activities in the country. Russia’s foreign and justice ministries reportedly submitted an appeal last week to President Vladimir Putin urging the Taliban’s removal from Russia’s list of terrorist organizations. asiaplustj.info »
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reportedly held a meeting with a representative of Tajikistan in Geneva, urging the country to prevent the deportation of Afghan migrants to Afghanistan, where their lives are at risk. asiaplustj.info »
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called on Tajikistan to halt forcible return of Afghan refugees and uphold international protection standards and commitments. asiaplustj.info »
Zholia Parsi, a women's rights activist in Afghanistan, and imprisoned Tajik lawyer Manouchehr Kholiqnazarov have been declared co-winners of the prestigious Martin Ennals Award. asiaplustj.info »
Etelaat-e Rouz says Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek warlord and former politician in Afghanistan who is a member of the Supreme Council of National Resistance for Salvation of Afghanistan, has proposed to establish a government-in-exile to oppose the Taliban. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have signed a protocol for negotiations on developing a feasibility study (FS) for the Jaloliddini-Balkhi – Panji Poyon railway project, says the press center of the Ministry of transport of Tajikistan. The document was inked in Dushanbe on July 30, 2024. asiaplustj.info »
TOLOnews reports that the Administrative Deputy of the Prime Minister's Office, in a meeting with the head of UNAMA, called for the transfer of Afghanistan's seat at the UN to the interim government, the lifting of sanctions and the removal of Islamic Emirate officials' names from the blacklist. asiaplustj.info »
Moscow will support Afghanistan’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) if the Taliban movement, currently outlawed in Russia, is recognized, Zamir Kabulov, Russian special presidential envoy for Afghanistan and director of the Foreign Ministry’s Second Asia Department, said at a briefing on June 4, according to TASS . asiaplustj.info »
Uzbek media reports say Uzbekistan’s Defense Ministry denies Russian expert’s claim that Uzbekistan has shot down Afghan military helicopter The Defense Ministry of Uzbekistan has addressed a circulating claim on social media regarding an Afghan military helicopter dislodged on the border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan The information comes from a post by asiaplustj.info »
The presence and activities of the Taliban Movement’s Consul in Khorog (Tajikistan’s Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO) are aimed at proper operation of marketplace for the Tajik-Afghan cross-border trade in the region. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik and Afghan power utility companies – Barqi Tojik and Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) – have reportedly signed an agreement on purchase of Tajik electricity in 2024. asiaplustj.info »
The Telegraph reported on December 25 that Afghanistan’s exchange rate story is one of remarkable recovery over the past year, taking the country’s national currency, the afghani, to its highest level against the dollar since early 2018. asiaplustj.info »
General Mohammad Yasin Zia, who is one of the leaders of the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), is confident in growing resistance to the terrorist regime in Kabul. asiaplustj.info »
The Voice of America ( VOA ) says an independent assessment commissioned by the United Nations has linked recognition of the Taliban government to compliance with Afghanistan's international treaty obligations and commitments, requiring it to immediately remove sweeping curbs on women's rights to education and employment opportunities. asiaplustj.info »
Naqibullah Dehqanzada, acting head of the Afghan Consulate in Khorog, the capital of Tajikistan’s Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO, has stated that the Consulate operates under direct support and supervision of the Taliban-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dehqanzada issued a statement to confirm the Afghan consulate’s connection with the Taliban after the former Afghan asiaplustj.info »
TOLOnews reports that the Acting Minister of Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Habibullah Agha, said at the ceremony celebrating International Teacher's Day on October 5 that the ministry is working to improve educational opportunities for students in the country. asiaplustj.info »
The fifth meeting of the Moscow format on consultations on Afghanistan took place in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, on September 29. The event brought together special representatives and senior officials from China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. asiaplustj.info »
Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported on August 1 that an official with Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) has said 397 foreign students are studying at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the academic center. asiaplustj.info »
The United Nations in Afghanistan yesterday issued its Strategic Framework for Afghanistan for the period 2023-2025, outlining the priorities of the organization in support of the Afghan people. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say the house of Afghanistan's Ambassador to Tajikistan, Mohammad Zahir Aghbar, has been burned down by the Taliban in the Rukhin district of Afghanistan’s Panjshir province. A fire reportedly broke out in the house on the evening of June 11. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on June 8 that source in Tajikistan's government entities have said that dozens of armed Afghan citizens, including former Afghan military personnel, have been apprehended by Tajik law enforcement and security troops in the Tajik southern province of Khatlon. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say the second meeting of leaders of the anti-Taliban opposition group, which was held in Vienna on April 24-26, ended with an emphasis on a peaceful political solution. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say Kazakhstan has accredited Afghan diplomats representing Taliban government. Citing Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov, media reports say Kazakhstan has accredited diplomats from Afghanistan. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan and Russia started a joint five-day military drill near the Tajik Afghan border on April 3. asiaplustj.info »
Some media reports said on February 27 that Iran has handed the Afghan embassy in Tehran over to the Taliban. The Iranian foreign ministry denies this. asiaplustj.info »
A member of the Afghan Central Bank's Supreme Council, Shah Mehrabi, said that the newly printed Afghani banknotes will enter the markets through proper methods that will not affect the value of the Afghan currency, TOLOnews reported on December 13. Mehrabi, who is also a member of the Trust Fund of US$3. asiaplustj.info »
AFP reports that Afghanistan’s capital has a bold new landmark that puts it at the center of the world – or rather the world at the center of Kabul. Municipal authorities reportedly unveiled a giant hand-painted globe of planet Earth, complete with an oversized Afghanistan, in Dahan-e Bagh square on December 7. asiaplustj.info »
The Khaama Press News Agency reported on October 20 that according to the Office of the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), millions of destitute Afghan farmers and laborers depend on income from the cultivation of opium poppies. asiaplustj.info »
In a report delivered at the High-Level International Conference on “International and Regional Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism and Prevent the Movement of Terrorists" in Dushanbe, Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda revealed on October 19 that current Afghan authorities have issued more than 3,000 passports to members of terrorist asiaplustj.info »
Three charter planes have carried more than 300 Afghan refugees from Tajikistan to Canada, Abdul Musavvir Bahaduri, the head of the community of Afghan refugees in Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus in an interview Friday afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
The Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the government, citing weather forecasters, warns of a dust storm. According to weather forecasters, on September 27-29, in a number of southern regions and regions of republican subordination, wind intensification with gusts of up to 17-22 m/s is predicted, the report says. asiaplustj.info »
The U.S. is negotiating with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to trade nearly 50 military aircraft flown across the border as the Afghan government collapsed last summer for help hunting terrorists in Afghanistan, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. The fate of the U.S. asiaplustj.info »
