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Northern resistance, led by Ahmad Masoud and former first vice president Amrullah Saleh, was the lone resistance force in Panjshri province when the Taliban took power. According to Khaama Press, the WSJ report goes on to say that former Afghan spies are joining ISIS-K to reclaim their income after the government collapsed and to fight the Taliban.
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]]>The breakthrough came when the agency received a specific tip about a shipment declared as semi-processed Talc stones originating from Afghanistan and delivered from Bandar Abbas Port in Iran to Mundra Port by Aashi Trading Company, based in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
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]]>China is requesting that the US reclassify ETIM as a global terrorist organization, which is unusual for a country that sat on the UN’s classification of Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Masood Azhar as a global terrorist for nearly three years.
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]]>As per a US official, US anti-missile defenses intercepted as many as five rockets fired at Kabul’s airport early Monday. According to local media accounts, today’s rocket strike was launched from the back of a car, according to Reuters. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident later that evening.
Meanwhile, a Taliban official said that the US drone strike on Sunday killed civilians and blamed the US for neglecting to notify the Taliban before carrying out the mission. At least ten members of a family, including children, were murdered in the bombing.
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]]>According to sources familiar with the situation, Indian immigration services have been informed of the seizure of Afghan passports with Indian visas, citing a severe concern that these documents could be used to fabricate false passports for terrorists in the future.
While it is unclear whose organization was behind the attack on the Indian visa outsourcing firm in Kabul, the invaders were speaking Urdu, which raises suspicions about Pakistan.
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]]>“There are no COVID-19 positive cases out of 78 persons (Who came from Afghanistan last night) who are presently under institutional quarantine at ITBP Quarantine Facility at Chhawla Camp, New Delhi,” tweeted the ITBP
India has stepped up efforts to evacuate its citizens as well as Afghan citizens fleeing their country because of the worsening security situation after the Taliban’s stunning sweep to power last week.
A total of 626 people, including 228 Indian citizens, have been evacuated from Afghanistan till now, informed Minister Hardeep Puri. He also informed that 77 among them were Afghan Sikhs. The number of Indian citizens evacuated does not include those working in the Indian Embassy, Mr Puri added.
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]]>Now all three are at the cutting edge of a modern economy driven by advancements in high-tech chips and large-capacity batteries that are made with a range of minerals, including rare earths. And Afghanistan is sitting on deposits estimated to be worth $1 trillion or more, including what may be the world’s largest lithium reserves — if anyone can get them out of the ground
With the U.S. withdrawal, Beijing can offer what Kabul needs most: political impartiality and economic investment,” Zhou Bo, who was a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020, wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times over the weekend. “Afghanistan in turn has what China most prizes: opportunities in infrastructure and industry building — areas in which China’s capabilities are arguably unmatched — and access to $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits.”
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]]>More Indian nationals, as well as dozens of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, are likely to be evacuated from Kabul. In response to the deteriorating circumstances in war-torn Afghanistan, Indian officials evacuated 75 Sikhs on Monday. On an IAF plane, three copies of the Guru Granth Sahib, as well as 75 persons, including 46 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, would be evacuated from Afghanistan.
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]]>The minister tweeted a video of him carrying one of the copies on his head with reverence, with two others carrying the other copies, and chanting “Satnam Shri Waheguru” as he walked barefoot on the aerobridge. Minister of State (MoS) External Affairs V Muraleedharan too was presen
A special Air Force flight flew the evacuees from the Afghanistan capital to Tajikistan’s Dushanbe on Monday. An Air India flight with 78 passengers, including 25 Indian citizens, landed in New Delhi from Dushanbe.
The passengers on board the Air India flight chanted ”Wahe Guru ki Khalsa, Wahe Guru ki Fateh” for their safe evacuation from crisis-hit country.
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]]>Students, mostly women, raised slogans and carried posters demanding support for the Afghan women and children as Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul fell to the militia last Sunday.
With placards of “Protect Afghan Women”, they sought to raise their voices for the women who are on the brink of losing their hard-earned rightsEven as the Taliban, at a press conference last week, reassured the world that they have changed, their message of moderation was contradicted by the protesters whose families remain stuck in Afghanistan.
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