Afghanistan is not experiencing shortages of medicines despite the suspension of pharmaceutical imports from Pakistan, the Taliban’s Minister of Public Health, Noor Jalal Jalali, said on Friday.
US President Donald Trump has said that many Afghans evacuated to the United States were brought in without proper screening and claimed that some of them are “people who shouldn’t be here.”
Pakistan has condemned the shooting of two US National Guard members near the White House, calling it an act of terrorism. The country warned that similar threats have repeatedly emerged from Afghanistan over the past two decades.
Yasin Zia, leader of the Afghanistan Freedom Front, has dismissed former President Ashraf Ghani’s warnings about the risk of national fragmentation.
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described the Afghan suspect accused of wounding two US National Guard members near the White House as a “radical Islamist terrorist,” saying all aspects of the case are under investigation.
US authorities have identified the man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday as Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
A Taliban delegation led by Mohammad Ismail Ghaznawi, the group’s governor of Badakhshan, has travelled to Tajikistan for discussions on border coordination and related security issues.
The United States immigration authority has announced an immediate halt to the processing of all immigration applications submitted by Afghan nationals.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House, previously worked with several US government agencies in Afghanistan including the CIA, Fox News has reported, citing US intelligence sources.
The Taliban have sought Russia’s assistance in regaining access to meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) after being excluded from recent sessions.
Pakistan’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Mohammad Sadiq Khan, has held talks in Islamabad with Mohammad Reza Bahrami, director-general for South Asia at Iran’s Foreign Ministry, to discuss regional security and the threat posed by militant groups operating from Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s information minister has accused the Afghan Taliban and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) of jointly orchestrating the recent suicide attack in Islamabad. He said that authorities have obtained “clear evidence” that the bomber was an Afghan national.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says four people, including two women, were publicly flogged in Balkh province after being convicted of what the group described as “illicit relations.” The individuals received between 20 and 39 lashes each.
Pakistan’s defence minister has said Islamabad no longer expects “anything positive” from the Taliban, describing the group as self-interested and untrustworthy.
UNICEF has said that children “are not and should never be a target,” following Monday night’s airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Khost and Kunar provinces that killed at least 10 civilians.
The Taliban’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nooruddin Azizi, has travelled to Türkiye at the invitation of the Turkish government to attend a ministerial meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
Pakistan’s military has said it does not distinguish between different Taliban factions, declaring that “there is no such thing as good or bad Taliban.”
Qatar’s new ambassador to Kabul, Mirdif Ali Al Qashouti, has presented his credentials to Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s military has rejected Taliban claims that it carried out airstrikes in Khost, Paktika and Kunar on Monday night, saying that Pakistan publicly announces any operation it conducts.
The European Union Delegation in Afghanistan on Tuesday expressed solidarity with Afghan women as it joined the global “Orange the World” campaign.
The Taliban on Tuesday condemned Pakistan’s recent airstrikes in Khost, Kunar and Paktika, describing them as a violation of Afghanistan’s airspace and a breach of international norms.
The Taliban said Pakistani airstrikes overnight killed nine children and one woman after hitting a residential home in Khost province. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid also said strikes were carried out in Kunar and Paktika, injuring four civilians.