20-08-2021 BEIJING/ KABUL: China has played a constructive role in promoting peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan and is welcome to contribute to the country’s rebuilding process, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Chinese state media. The Taliban spokesman made these remarks in his first interaction with the Chinese media after the …
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20-08-2021 KABUL/ NEW YORK: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn said this week they had moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country. Facebook has temporarily removed the ability for people to view or search the friends lists …
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20-08-2021 NEW DEHLI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hit hard due to his poor handling of the COVID-19 crisis at home, as a recent survey indicated his popularity graph had fallen to 24% from 66% a year ago. According to an Indian media report, the primary reason for the …
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20-08-2021 KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: An Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting people out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, a sports federation has said. The General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of Afghanistan, a government institution …
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20-08-2021 JERUSALEM/ DOHA: Israel says it reached an agreement with Qatar and the United Nations on a mechanism to transfer aid from the Gulf State to the besieged Gaza Strip, boosting prospects for relief in the Palestinian enclave after it was devastated in an Israel-Hamas conflict. Aid disbursement after the …
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20-08-2021 WASHINGTON: US Capitol Police have arrested a suspect who allegedly threatened to detonate a bomb near Congress after an hours-long standoff on Thursday. Capitol Police Chief J Thomas Manger identified the suspect as Floyd Roy Roseberry from North Carolina and said he was taken into custody without incident. Manger …
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19-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KARACHI/ KABUL/ LAHORE: For the last 20 years, the Kartei Sakhi shrine in west Kabul has been one of the main gathering places for the annual Ashura commemorations in the city. Every year, thousands of men, women and children in black …
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19-08-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD DUBAI: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaking from exile in the United Arab Emirates, said on Wednesday that he had left Kabul to prevent bloodshed and denied reports he took large sums of money with him as he departed the presidential palace. Ghani …
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19-08-2021 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Al Jazeera) CANBERRA/ BRISBANE/ ISLAMABAD: Two refugees are taking the Australian government to court, arguing that their detention offshore was fundamentally illegal because they were children at the time. Cousins Mehdi and Adnan, who by chance travelled on the same boat from Jakarta to Australia, …
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18-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC KABUL/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban’s blisteringly fast takeover of Afghanistan has stunned security and diplomacy experts worldwide. Days after the fall of Kabul, nations are hurriedly evacuating their diplomats and citizens, leaving behind two decades of work and investments. The Taliban’s rout is …
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