Afghan evacuation on ‘war footing’ as G7 meets on Taliban deadline
Aug. 24, 2021 Western countries worked at a “war-footing pace” on Tuesday to get people out of Afghanistan, a NATO country diplomat said, as U.S. President Joe Biden looked set…
Taliban fire in the air to control crowd at Kabul airport
Aug 22, 2021 The Taliban fired in the air and used batons to make people line up in orderly queues outside Kabul airport on Sunday, witnesses said, a day after…
Afghanistan shows why leaders must develop Nigeria for Nigerians
August 21, 2021 Dr Jonathan Obaje, former President, Nigerians in Diaspora (NIDO) Singapore in Asia, says the situation in Afghanistan where citizens are being airlifted to other countries should challenge…
Over 18,000 evacuated as NATO pledges to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan
Aug. 20, 2021 More than 18,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital, a NATO official said on Friday, pledging to redouble evacuation…
Defiant Afghan Ex-VP Vows To Fight Taliban
August 17, 2021 Afghanistan’s vice president Amrullah Saleh, a former spy chief who has survived more than one assassination attempt by the Taliban, is a trenchant critic of Pakistan. Afghanistan’s…
Pakistan seeks a ‘Reset’ in U.S. Relations …Qureshi says a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan could be the path
Even with U.S.-Pakistani relations badly frayed over the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s new government wants to seize an opportunity for a political solution of that war, while a “new convergence”…