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Afghanistan: Taliban, resistance forces battle it out in Panjshir Valley
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 5 (ANI): Taliban has reportedly advanced into in northeastern province of Panjshir, with resistance fighters in Afghanistan saying they are keeping the group at bay.
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Taliban being micromanaged by ISI, Pak in-charge of Afghanistan effectivel
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 5 (ANI): Former Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh has asserted that the Taliban are being micromanaged by Pakistan notorious intelligence agency--the ISI, adding that Islamabad is in-charge of the war-ravaged country effectively as a colonial power.
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G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting on Afghanistan expected next week
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 5 (ANI): A G7 foreign ministers' meeting is scheduled for next week with Russia's and China's participation and will focus on Afghanistan, NHK reported on Sunday.
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Pak PM speaks with UN chief, discusses current situation in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had a telephone conversation with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday and discussed the ongoing situation in Afghanistan.
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Don't want to surrender to Taliban, have asked my guard to shoot me twice
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 5 (ANI): Amrullah Saleh, the former vice-president of Afghanistan, who is now leading the Resistance Front against Taliban in Panjshir Valley, delineated the sequence of events that unfolded as Kabul fell to the outfit and how Afghan leadership abandoned the people of
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UN should prevent Taliban's onslaught in Panjshir, negotiate political sol
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 5 (ANI): Highlighting the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Panjshir valley, former Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh has called on United Nations to do its utmost to prevent the Taliban's onslaught into the resistance stronghold.
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Afghan crisis: Scores march in Geneva; call Swiss govt to not recognise Ta
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 5 (ANI): Scores of people including the Afghan diaspora held a protest march here against the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, highlighting the appalling human rights record under the outfit's previous regime.
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Afghan army collapsed at much faster rate, was unexpected: Top US General
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], September 5 (ANI): In an apparent admission of messy exit from Afghanistan, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the "collapse" of the Afghan army, in the face of Taliban offensive, happened at a much faster rate.
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Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan needs urgent response: HRW
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 5 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said foreign donors should take immediate action to ensure that necessary aid reaches Afghans facing hunger and collapsing health services after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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UNHCR terms Afghanistan situation as 'humanitarian emergency of internal d
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 5 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Sunday termed the Afghanistan situation a "humanitarian emergency of internal displacement" as more than half a million Afghan civilians have been displaced from the war-ravaged country.
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UN Chief to hold humanitarian conference for Afghanistan on September 13
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 5 (ANI): In response to the growing humanitarian needs in the war-ravaged country, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene a high-level humanitarian conference for Afghanistan on September 13.
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Taliban takeover: Shia Hazara minority subjected to targeted killings, vio
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 5 (ANI): As the Taliban takeover the war-torn country, the Shia Hazara minority in Afghanistan are regularly subjected to targeted killings, violence, and discrimination based on their religious and ethnic identity, said a Canada-based think tank.
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