Afghanistan
Ex-UK PM slams US for 'imbecilic' retreat from Afghanistan
"The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary," Blair, who took Britain into war in Afghanistan alongside the US in 2001, wrote in an article published on Saturday on the website of his Institute for Global Change, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
Persecuted Afghans finding solace in India
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there were approximately 40,000 refugees and asylum-seekers registered in India in 2019. At 27 per cent, Afghans were the second-largest community amongst them. Most of the Afghan refugees living in India are concentrated in New Delhi. The capital's Lajpat Nagar, a colony originally built for partition refugees from Pakistan, acts as a home for many Afghans.
Afghan VP flew to Dubai with $51mn in cash
US diplomatic cables revealed one Afghan Vice President flew to Dubai with 38 million pounds ($51 million) in cash, and that drug-traffickers and corrupt officials were shifting 170 million pounds ($231 million) a week out of a country where average incomes were scarcely 430 pounds ($585) a year, the report said.
Sri Lanka urges India's help to evacuate Lankans in Afghanistan
The Foreign Ministry stated Sri Lanka was deeply concerned about the situation in Afghanistan and was closely monitoring the development. "Our primary concern is the safety and security of Sri Lankans living in Afghanistan and evacuating them to safety or back to Sri Lanka," said the Foreign Ministry and requested the support of India, the US, the UK, Pakistan and the United Nations to evacuate Sri Lankans in Afghanistan.
Taliban meets Afghan political figures, assures security
"A delegation from the Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan met with a number of political figures in Kabul today," Muhammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Political Office of the Taliban in Qatari capital Doha, said in a tweet on Saturday. According to the spokesman, the delegation told the attendees about the future of the "Islamic Emirate", the name of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
Visuals emerge of ISI chief praying with Taliban
Pictures circulated on social media platforms show Hameed offering prayers led by a Taliban Imam. Media reports say the viral images also include Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Sheikh Abdul Hakim, who is the group's former shadow chief justice. This development comes at a time when reports suggest that Pakistan will be the first guest country of the Taliban-captured Afghanistan.
Non-Muslims in Afghanistan must pay jaziya: UK hate preacher
Anjem Choudary, 54, who inspired a generation of jihadi fighters and dozens of terrorist murders, also wants to ban music and mixing between sexes, and says non-Muslims should pay an "infidel tax", the Daily Mail reported. He has also urged the Taliban to impose a stricter form of Islamic justice, including stoning adulterers, chopping off the hands of thieves and lashing anyone caught drinking alcohol.
Sense of fear prevails across Kabul, says returnee from Kabul
A passenger coming from Kabul, Hari Thapa said that the sense of fear looms across Afghanistan after the Taliban toppled the government there. "However, we didn't face much trouble as I was staying in a hotel in Kabul and somehow managed to reach the Kabul airport", he said.
Baby passed over a wall at Kabul airport reunited with family
Images of parents attempting to hand over their children to soldiers have become a defining picture of the chaotic end to the West's involvement in Afghanistan, Metro UK reported. One video showed an American serviceman reaching over a barbed wire-fitted wall to grab a baby with one hand and haul it into the protected compound.
Taliban attacked ITBP contingent, soldier returned from Afghanistan tells family
Shaila K. Neelagar, aunt of Ravi Neelagar, a soldier attached to Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) who returned safely to India from Afghanistan five days ago, has shared some of the information given by Ravi to them on Taliban's attack on Indian soldiers. Ravi was very sad that he lost all his belongings but family comforted him by saying his safe return is everything that matters to them.
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