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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 »
In reaction to a remark by the Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said on August 25 that Afghan soil is not a threat to any country, adding current leadership is paving the way for “political opponents” to return. asiaplustj.info »
Rajnath Singh, the Defense Minister of India, said in Tashkent on August 24 at the gathering of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)’s defense ministers that Afghanistan’s territory should not be used to “intimidate or attack” any other country. asiaplustj.info »
Over the past several days, at least nine Afghan nationals have been deported from Tajikistan, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on August 24. A reliable source reportedly told Radio Ozodi that deportation of Afghan refugees began at the end of last week. asiaplustj.info »
Even before Kabul fell to the Taliban a year ago, a large Afghan community had taken up residence in Vahdat Township in Tajikistan. Eurasianet says Tajik regulations were more relaxed back when they arrived in the late 2010s, when the Western-backed government was still in power. asiaplustj.info »
In a statement delivered at the international conference on Afghanistan in Tashkent, US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Mr. Thomas West, noted on July 26 that Washington is ready to discuss with Taliban the issue of unfreezing Afghan money, Afghanistan International TV says . asiaplustj.info »
Uzbekistan has urged the Afghan government led by the Taliban to sever all ties with terrorist organizations. The Uzbek capital of Tashkent is hosting a two-day international organization on Afghanistan. asiaplustj.info »
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said he was "saddened" by deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan and called for solidarity with the nation. "I was saddened to hear of the tragic loss of life caused by the earthquake which struck Afghanistan earlier today local time near the city of Khost," UN head said in a statement. asiaplustj.info »
The United States may let Tajikistan hold on to Afghan military aircraft, which were donated by the United States to the former government of Afghanistan and sought shelter in Tajikistan following the U. asiaplustj.info »
Afghan media reports say a 4-hour clash between Taliban militants and Tajik border guards took place in the night from Saturday to Sunday, May 15. Shooting reportedly took place at the border in the area of the Panji Poyon (Tajikistan) – Sherkhan Bandar (Afghanistan) border crossing point (BCP). asiaplustj.info »
The United States and Tajikistan have been discussing the fate of air force planes and helicopters flown to Tajikistan by fleeing pilots as the U. S. -backed government in Kabul collapsed in August last year. asiaplustj.info »
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan politician, former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker, has stated that Tajikistan, by providing asylum to the Afghan opposition, has declared war against Afghanistan. asiaplustj.info »
Multiple deadly bomb blasts rocked Afghanistan yesterday, and there were attacks on schools earlier this week. Afghanistan’s Khaama Press says Islamic State (IS) terror group has claimed responsibility for the explosions in four different Afghan cities that killed over 40 civilians and wounded more than eighty more. asiaplustj.info »
A group of Afghan refugees that arrived in Tajikistan amid Taliban fear found themselves forced to return to Afghanistan. They say their efforts to leave for a third country have not yielded results, and, according to them, it is very difficult to find good job and income in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Drug enforcement authorities in Tajikistan say the volume of illegal narcotics they interdicted in 2021 increased by almost 69 percent year-on-year, but instability in Afghanistan could provoke a worsening in the problem of drug-smuggling. asiaplustj.info »
The Afghan government led by the Taliban movement (under UN sanctions for terrorism) has called on university professors, who fled the country after the Taliban regained power last August, to come back to Afghanistan and help in rebuilding the country and contribute to scientific development, says an official statement released by Afghan national media on February 11, according to Sputnik . asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say February 11, 2022 is a deadline for the Biden administration to make a decision on US$7 billion held at the New Federal Reserve. The Islamic Emirate takeover of Afghanistan and the ensuing humanitarian crisis has kicked off an international debate about what to do with billions of dollars of frozen Afghan government assets held abroad, predominantly in the United States. asiaplustj.info »
The Financial Times ( FT )’s annual Women of the Year has long celebrated achievement and influence. asiaplustj.info »
Reuters says the United Nations on November 22 pushed for urgent action to prop up Afghanistan's banks, warning that a spike in people who are unable to repay loans as well as lower deposits and a cash liquidity crunch could cause the financial system to collapse within months. asiaplustj.info »
Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at risk of dying as temperatures drop, Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), said on November 12. asiaplustj.info »
An airplane carrying U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other Afghan took off from an airport in Dushanbe yesterday, ending a nearly three-month detention ordeal that began when they escaped there in their aircraft during the Taliban takeover, Reuters says, citing Afghan sources. asiaplustj.info »
Asia-Plus Media Group has received a letter from a certain Ahmad Tahir, who said that he had previously headed a civil society organization in Afghanistan and been adviser to Afghan parliament commission on combating drug trafficking. asiaplustj.info »
Left behind after U.S. withdrawal, some former members of Afghanistan’s U.S.-trained intelligence service and elite military units have enlisted in the only force currently challenging the country’s new rulers: Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, according to The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ). asiaplustj.info »
