Maintaining a relationship with Pakistan seems to remain of interest to the United States. In the latest, according to a recent news report by Dawn, all references to Pakistan have been dropped from a bill that earlier sought to blame Pakistan for aiding the Taliban in taking control of Kabul back in August.

Even as Washington tries to maintain friendly relations with Pakistan, its actions indicate concern

India sent its first medical consignment containing life-saving medicines to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. The medicines will bring a sigh of relief for Afghan people amid a humanitarian crisis in the south-Asian country.

India sends life-saving medicines to war-torn Afghanistan amid a humanitarian crisis

Afghanistan’s envoy to India Farid Mamundzay has warned of a "catastrophic situation" in his country. "People are not getting paid on time, there is little business activities.

Catastrophic situation right across the country says Farid Mamundzay, Afghanistan’s envoy to India

Terrorist group Al-Qaeda which was responsible for the gruesome 9/11 terror attack in the US, is attempting to rebuild its presence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Terror groups Al-Qaeda & ISIS-K attempts to rebuild its presence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the nation has been struggling to battle extreme poverty. There have been reports of many Afghans selling possessions to buy food because the Taliban is unable to pay wages to civil servants.

As Afghanistan continues to battle poverty, donors approve release of $280M

Terrorist organisation Al Qaeda is attempting to rebuild its presence inside Taliban controlled Afghanistan. The war ravaged country was the base from which Al Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks against US in 2001.

How to deal with the growth of Al Qaeda & ISIS?

In Afghanistan, the issue of natural calamities has become a headache. At least about 25 of the countries 34 provinces have been hit hard by drought.

Afghanistan faces severe drought

India will be sending aid, largely medicines, to Afghanistan on Saturday morning. The aid will be sent via the Kam air flight that arrived on Friday and brought 10 Indians and 94 Afghans including members of the Afghan Hindu-Sikh minority community.

India to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan on Saturday

It's a storm of crisis for war-torn Afghanistan as 25 out of 34 provinces have been hard hit by drought. Wheat harvests have also declined by 20%.

Post-war, natural calamities are battering Afghanistan

India evacuated 104 people, including 10 Indians and 94 Afghans, from Kabul under ‘Operation Devi Shakti’, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday.

India evacuates 104 people, including members of Hindu and Sikh community, from Kabul

Afghanistan's economic collapse is "happening before our eyes", says the UN humanitarian chief, as he called on the international community to intervene to avert further deaths.

Afghanistan's economic collapse is happening 'before our eyes': UN

From Taliban-controlled Kabul, Radio Begum is broadcasting the voices of women that have been muted across Afghanistan. Station staff fill the airwaves with programming for women, by women: educational shows, book readings and call-in counselling.

'We're not giving up. We don't need to be scared': The radio station for Afghan women

Afghanistan's envoy to India, Farid Mamundzay, has urged Indian government to grant visas to 2,500 Afghan students so that they can come back and complete studies in India.

Grant 2500 Afghan students visas to complete studies, Afghan envoy urges India

US President Joe Biden is attempting to dissuade his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine. What are Biden's options? Can he score a diplomatic victory after the failure in Afghanistan? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: Biden's 'carrots and sticks' for Putin

The economic collapse of Afghanistan has accelerated since the Taliban takeover in August. Millions have been robbed of work, hundreds are left too poor to feed their families. The desperation has led to Afghans streaming across the border into Iran. WION tells you more.

Desperation drives thousands of Afghans to cross into Iran

Around 800,000 Afghan children do not have shelter from the biting winter. 3.2 million of them could face malnutrition. Without international help, this winter could turn treacherous for Afghanistan. Mariam Wardak tells you more.

South Asia Diary | Afghan children succumb to biting winter

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said that several European Union Countries are considering to re-establish a joint diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.

EU countries planning to open joint diplomatic mission in Afghanistan: France President Macron

One by one, women poured into the mud brick clinic, the frames of famished children peeking out beneath the folds of their pale gray, blue and pink burqas. Many had walked for more than an hour across this drab stretch of southern Afghanistan, desperate for medicine to pump life back into their children’s shrunken veins.

Facing economic collapse, Afghanistan is gripped by starvation

A blast took place in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday, according to local news media reports. The eyewitness said that the blast occurred on Kabul's Fifth Taimani Street, Tolo News reported.

Blast rocks Afghanistan’s Kabul, no casualties reported

For decades, roughly 1,000 families called the low-slung mud-walled neighborhood of Firqa home. Some moved in during the 1990s civil war, while others were provided housing under the previous government.

In Afghanistan, ‘who has the guns gets the land’

The Taliban`s move to stop women from working could cost the Afghan economy nearly USD 1 billion, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme, that portrays the growing humanitarian crisis in the country.

Taliban ban on women can cost economy USD 1 billion

European Union's special envoy on Afghanistan, Tomas Niklasson, who is in Delhi, has welcomed the Indian government's offer to send humanitarian support of 50,000 MT of wheat to Afghanistan.

EU special envoy on Afghanistan lauds India's humanitarian support offer to Kabul  

European Union's special envoy on Afghanistan, Tomas Niklasson who is in Delhi has welcomed the Indian govt's offer to send humanitarian support of 50,000 MT of wheat to the people of Afghanistan. The Indian support comes even as the onset of winters in Afghanistan is worsening the situation in the country for many common Afghans. The country saw a Taliban takeover in the month of August. Speaking to our diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal, Niklasson said," there is a very strong overlap in a way, or a very similar analysis of the situation" by India, EU when it comes to Afghanistan, and both are "looking to see if there are concrete areas where we can work." In Delhi, the EU special envoy met India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla and JS PAI JP Singh. Niklasson has come to Delhi from Doha where he had talks with the Taliban delegation led by its Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. One of the key issues raised by the EU during the meet was human rights, women's rights, lack of inclusivity of Taliban-led govt, etc. Asked about if EU plans to recognise the regime, he said, "we are not rushing into recognition, we are not recognizing, we haven't recognized the Taliban regime, the interim govt. We do however see the need to engage with them".

WION Exclusive: EU Special envoy on Afghanistan lauds India's offer of humanitarian support to Kabul

With the US and western nations pushing the Taliban to honour women's rights, the official Twitter account of Afghanistan's government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has now shared a decree on women's rights.

Women are 'noble and free human beings': Taliban issues decree on women rights

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