Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has issued a sharp warning to the Taliban, threatening their complete destruction and saying Pakistan could force them to “flee back to the Tora Bora caves.”
Tolatbek Musadikov, Deputy Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), has warned that threats emanating from Afghanistan have not yet been eliminated. He said that instability in the country continues to endanger the borders of CSTO member states.
Fighting has again broken out among Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Monday that the government will under no circumstances hold talks with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and will instead engage solely with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Benafsha Yaqoobi, the prosecutor at the People’s Tribunal for Afghan women, said that the Taliban have completely dismantled the rights and support systems for persons with disabilities since returning to power.
Envoys from Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China held talks on Afghanistan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) consultative meeting in Tajikistan, Iranian officials said Friday.
Pakistan has deported several Afghan refugees who were awaiting resettlement in the United States, The Washington Post reported, as Islamabad intensifies its crackdown on undocumented migrants.
The Islamabad High Court has stopped the deportation of 18 Afghan nationals and directed Pakistani authorities to explain the cancellation of their residency cards.
Afghan migrants in Pakistan say their visa extension requests are being rejected without explanation, leaving many in limbo and unable to return home.
