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Afghan havens, Online threats: The TTP challenge Pakistan must win
Pakistan Today
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August 18, 2025
Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, Pakistan has faced a sharp escalation in threats from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The Afghan regime has granted sanctuary to TTP leaders and fighters, enabling them to reorganise,...
Government Considers Easing FDI Rules and Boosting Tax Incentives for Startups
Silicon India
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· Commerce Ministry plans 100-day reform agenda to ease FDI rules and boost startup incentives. · Proposals include relaxed environmental norms, e-commerce export promotion, and streamlined certification processes. · FDI grew 13% to $50 billion in...
Afghan leaders and women activists to discuss peace in Islamabad
Pakistan Today
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August 18, 2025
ISLAMABAD: A research institute in Islamabad is set to host Afghan leaders and women activists for a dialogue on regional peace and stability, organizers announced on Monday. In recent months, Pakistan and Afghanistan have seen improvements in...
Will the Next China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Meeting Be a Win for All Sides?
The Diplomat
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August 18, 2025
China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are scheduled to hold an informal meeting in Kabul on August 20. The foreign ministers of Pakistan and China – Ishaq Dar and Wang Yi, respectively – along with the Taliban’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan...
UN warns of ‘normalization’ of women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan; IEA rejects claims
Ariana News
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August 17, 2025
A major regional dialogue involving Afghan leaders and women activists will be held in Islamabad on August 25-26, with organisers stressing that the gathering is not against the Islamic Emirate, but is intended to foster peace and stability in...
Senators want more direct line between Massachusetts governor, National Guard chief
WGBH - Massachusetts
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August 18, 2025
While National Guard members from three states head to Washington, D.C. to patrol the capital under the command of President Donald Trump, lawmakers in Massachusetts have advanced a bill to realign the guard’s chain of command here in a way they...
U.S. Government Just Hit Russia With Awkward "Do Not Travel" Warning Right After Rolling Out Red Carpet For Putin
The Travel
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August 18, 2025
In May 2025, the most recent U.S. travel advisory for Russia appeared on the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs' website, noting "Level 4: Do Not Travel." While this level of advisory isn't brand-new, the reminder of it is, which...
MTN Group Under US Investigation For Business Practices
Daily Independent
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August 18, 2025
1 Mobile network operator, MTN Group, has opened new tab that it is facing an investigation by a U.S. Department of Justice grand jury into its conduct and that of its former subsidiary in Afghanistan and an Iranian cell phone carrier it partly...
Afghanistan’s Climate Crisis Displaces Nearly 400,000 in 2025
Khaama Press
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August 18, 2025
Afghanistan faces worsening climate disasters, with droughts and floods displacing nearly 400,000 people this year. Over five million have been affected, deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis. Afghanistan is experiencing increasing...
I have a second family and home in Scotland, says Afghan medical student
Northern Scot
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August 18, 2025
A woman who fled Afghanistan to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a doctor has said Scotland is now her second home. Muzhda Iqbal said she had “lost all hope” after the Taliban banned women from university education. In August 2024, she...
Afghanistan after nearly three years away
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 18, 2025
Returning to Kabul after nearly three years was like coming home. Immediately the essence of Afghanistan emerged. At passport control, a smile, a hand to the heart and Salam-o-Alakum. The same from the bearded gentleman behind the counter that...
Germany urges Pakistan to allow back over 200 expelled Afghans
Business Recorder
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August 18, 2025
BERLIN: Berlin said Monday that more than 200 Afghans waiting to be offered sanctuary in Germany had been deported by Pakistan to their Taliban-run home country in recent days. The German government was urging Islamabad to allow them back, said...
Restricting India In Kabul? Pakistan To Host Afghan Opposition Leaders, Including Ahmad Massoud
Web NewsWire
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August 18, 2025
Last Updated:August 18, 2025, 14:51 IST Sources state conversations might pave method for Resistance Council to develop an official workplace in Pakistan– a relocation similar to the Taliban’s political bureau as soon as hosted in Doha. Ahmad...
Democrats Aren’t Fighting Trump’s D.C. Takeover Because They’ve Embraced “Law and Order” Politics
Current Affairs
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August 18, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this week her intention to federalize law enforcement in Washington, D.C., attempting to place the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Terry Cole, in charge of the 3,200 officers of the Metropolitan Police...
Kandahar: Gerard Butler’s Race Against Time in Afghanistan
Times News Global
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August 18, 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA — In the action-packed film Kandahar, CIA agent Tom Harris, played by Gerard Butler, faces a deadly situation when his cover is blown in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The film, directed by Ric Roman Waugh, follows Harris as he...
Afghan police seize illicit drugs, arrest 16 smugglers in Herat province
Xinhua News Agency
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KABUL, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Afghan counter-narcotics police have apprehended 16 drug smugglers and confiscated 872 kg of narcotics in western Afghanistan's Herat province over the past week, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement on...
US grand jury probing MTN over Iran, Afghanistan allegations
TechCentral
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August 18, 2025
MTN Group on Monday disclosed that it is now the subject of a grand jury investigation by the US department of justice. The investigation will look into MTN’s operations in Afghanistan (now disposed of) and Iran (where it owns 49% of Irancell)....
Pakistan deports Afghans with German resettlement rights
Deutsche Welle
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The German Foreign Ministry said on Monday that 211 Afghans who were approved for resettlement in Germany were deported back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan from Pakistan, where they had been temporarily living. According to a spokesperson, the...
Media: Iran using Taliban ‘kill list’ to hunt British spies
APA
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Iran’s revolutionary guards are hunting British spies using a leaked Ministry of Defence list provided by the Taliban, APA reports citing The Telegraph. A group of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials flew to Kabul last week to...
Activists Press Berlin to Transfer 2,000 Afghan Refugees Stranded in Pakistan
Khaama Press
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August 18, 2025
Activists are urging Berlin to urgently transfer 2,000 Afghan refugees stranded in Pakistan, warning that arrests and deportations risk sending them back into dangerous conditions in Afghanistan. Human rights defenders, civil society groups, and...