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Afghanistan to Take Center Stage at Upcoming SCO Summit in Tajikistan
TOLONews
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Nearly four years after the return of the Islamic Emirate to power, Afghanistan remains one of the central topics in regional discussions. Now, the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has announced that a consultative...
Afghan Beauty Parlours Face Closure As Taliban Extends Crackdown, Warns Arrests
News18
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August 30, 2025
Last Updated:August 30, 2025, 20:00 IST The Taliban has instructed community leaders and elders throughout the country to identify secret beauty salons and report their operators. Since 2021, Taliban have implemented various restrictions on women...
Uzbek President Urges Constructive Engagement with Islamic Emirate
TOLONews
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Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan, during a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of his country’s independence, emphasized the need for practical cooperation with the government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Highlighting...
En route to Germany, Afghans face deportation in Pakistan
Deutsche Welle
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August 30, 2025
Germany has said it is ending a monthslong freeze on admitting vulnerable Afghans who had previously been promised entry to the country. Many of the people affected escaped the Taliban by fleeing to Pakistan, where they have been waiting for years...
Sambhal Violence Report Rekindles Debate On Governance, Demography And Polarisation
Free Press Journal
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August 30, 2025
The judicial commission probing the Sambhal violence has submitted its report, making sensational revelations about demographic decline of Hindus in the region and the spread of terror modules with international links. According to the report,...
Pakistan FM: Too Early to Comment on Kabul’s Summoning of Ambassador
TOLONews
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Two days after Pakistan’s military airstrikes in Nangarhar and Khost provinces in eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister said at a press conference that they had received the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s...
SCO to Hold Consultative Meeting in Dushanbe with Afghanistan’s Security and Stability on Agenda
Khaama Press
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August 30, 2025
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization will convene in Dushanbe on September 11–12, focusing on Afghanistan’s security, terrorism threats, and the need for an inclusive political settlement amid regional concerns. The Shanghai Cooperation...
Opinion: Local problems need local policing, not federal military force
Chattanooga Times Free Press - Tennessee
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August 30, 2025
Using federal law enforcement and military troops to enforce law and order in Washington may be well-intentioned, but history and experience suggest it is counterproductive. Rather than promoting peace, such deployments often undermine trust,...
Pro/Con: Federal military forces inappropriate for local crime
Duluth News Tribune - Minnesota
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August 30, 2025
Using federal law enforcement and military troops to enforce law and order in Washington may be well-intentioned, but history and experience suggest it is counterproductive. Rather than promoting peace, such deployments often undermine trust,...
Severe Drought Slashes Afghanistan Wheat Harvest by 60%, Aid Group Warns of Worsening Food Crisis
Khaama Press
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August 30, 2025
German aid group HELP warns Afghanistan’s severe drought has cut wheat harvests by 60% in the west, pushing millions closer to hunger amid worsening climate-driven crises. The German aid organization HELP has warned that Afghanistan is facing one...
Taliban issues fresh warning to Afghan women: Shut secret beauty salons in a month or face arrest
The Indian Express
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August 30, 2025
The Taliban have escalated their crackdown on Afghan women, issuing a stern warning to those running secret underground beauty salons to close within a month or face arrest, The Guardian reported.Although all beauty salons were officially closed...
US Discussing Deploying Private Military Firms to Ukraine
Kyiv Post
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August 30, 2025
Donald Trump is in talks to deploy private American military firms to Ukraine as part of a potential peace settlement, according to The Telegraph. Citing more than a dozen Western officials, The Telegraph writes that armed contractors from the US...
Afghanistan tightens noose on right-hand drive vehicles
Pajhwok Afghan News
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August 30, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) says owners of right-hand drive vehicles registered in Afghanistan must obtain temporary number plates. Those vehicles that have not been registered must leave Kabul and obtain stickers in the...
Law regulating poetry gatherings endorsed
Pajhwok Afghan News
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August 30, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says the law regulating poetry gatherings has been endorsed and published in the official gazette. As per the law, poets are obliged to avoid disrespecting Islamic values, insulting or dividing ethnic...
'Worst thing I've ever seen': 4 years later, GOP veterans say Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal still haunts them
Fox News
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Rep. Don Bacon, a retired brigadier general, spoke with Fox News Digital about the fourth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members. NEWYou can now...
Afghan women refugees find freedom, voice through football
BDNews24
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Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021. Safdari was given chilling instructions to burn her kit and...
FIFA Camp Symbol Of Afghan Women's Resistance, Fight For Football Recognition
News18
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August 30, 2025
Last Updated:August 30, 2025, 16:46 IST FIFA's ID camp at St George's Park unites Afghanistan refugee women footballers like Elaha Safdari and Najma Arefi, symbolizing resistance and hope for international recognition. Afghanistan women football...
Armed clash erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over border dispute and mining activities
AKIpress News Agency
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August 30, 2025
Armed clash erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over border dispute and mining activities AKIPRESS.COM - An armed conflict occurred on August 24 in the Dawang border area of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province between Taliban forces and...
Majority of Afghans consider girls’ education important: UN
Pajhwok Afghan News
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August 30, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): The UN Women section has announced that based on a survey, among rural populations, 87% of men and 95% of women support girls’ education, while in urban areas the figures was 95% for both men and women. The agency on Friday said,...
20 years, $2tr, a nation in ruins: How US ended its longest war in Afghanistan this day in 2021
Press TV
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By Press TV Website Staff On this day four years ago, the last American soldier appeared visibly jaded in a night-vision photo as he took slow, measured steps to board the US military plane, drawing the curtains on 20 years of disastrous military...