Biden hammers a $7 billion nail into Afghanistan’s coffin
February 18 ,2022
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By: Cheryl Benard, Medea Benjamin & Masuda Sultan
On February 11, President Joe Biden issued an executive order regarding the Afghanistan Central Bank’s funds. This exercise in au...
Biden’s bank heist
February 15 ,2022
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By: Asad Rahim Khan
If there was ever a scale for imperial thievery, the past few centuries run the range: there was Clive and Rhodes and of course Leopold...
China to soldier on in Pakistan despite attacks
February 15 ,2022
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By: FM Shakil
Balochistan Liberation Army fighters at an undisclosed location in a file photo. Image: Facebook
PESHAWAR – Despite facing l...
Hamid Karzai: US transfer of Afghan funds to 9/11 victims...
February 15 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Karzai rejects "unjust and unfair" US order, saying Afghans have also been victims of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. (AP)
Afghan...
Jemima to Imran to US scholars, all up against Biden’s mov...
February 15 ,2022
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By: Raghav Bikhchandani
US President Joe Biden and Pakistan PM Imran Khan (file photo) | Bloomberg/ANI
New Delhi: From Pakistan foreign ministry to J...
Biden doesn’t get to use our money as ‘aid’
February 14 ,2022
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By: Mohsin Amin
I remember visiting my village in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, in 2011 and stopping by two farmers in their 50s in the wheat fields. This wa...
Wheat for Afghanistan stuck in India-Pakistan bureaucratic...
February 14 ,2022
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By: Tahir Khan
Indian and Pakistani flags are lowered during a highly charged daily retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border crossing between Ind...
‘Not his money’: Biden splits Afghanistan’s reserves
February 14 ,2022
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By: Jack Detsch
Food packets prepared by the World Food Program are pictured before their distribution to needy Afghan families in Kandahar on Dec. 2...
Punishing the Afghans
February 14 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
President Biden’s decision to begin the process of splitting half of the Afghan central bank’s assets on the deposit o...
Afghanistan and Myanmar drag down Asia's democracy ranking
February 11 ,2022
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By: Grace Li
Left: A group of women protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 14, 2021. Right: Members of the Talib...
The Afghanistan debacle looks worse and worse
February 10 ,2022
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By: David Harsanyi
President Joe Biden listens to a reporter’s question during a press conference on Afghanistan, August 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ern...
Taliban hopeful of international recognition after Oslo ta...
February 10 ,2022
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By: Kanika Gupta
The Afghan Taliban under Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, left, sought international recognition at talks held late last month...
Taliban to discuss aid, frozen assets with diplomats in Ge...
February 10 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban feels it is inching closer towards international recognition, as its delegates hold talks in several countries. (AP Archive)...
Turkiye's 'goodness train' reaches Afghanistan in time of...
February 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The train traversed 4,168 kilometres and took 12 days to get to Afghanistan. (AA)
A special charity train carrying 750 tons of eme...
The US economic war on Afghanistan amounts to a humanitari...
February 8 ,2022
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By: Larry Elliott
Young boys try to keep warms in Kabul’s market district. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The war in Afghan...
US outruns regional states in race for Kabul
February 5 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban supporters gather to celebrate the US withdrawal of all its troops out of Afghanistan in Kandahar on September 1, 2021, follo...
US allows international banks to transfer aid money to Afg...
February 4 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Billions of dollars in Afghan central bank reserves and international development aid are frozen. (AP)
International banks can tra...
Afghan universities reopen with trickle of women attending
February 3 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban fighters stand guard at the main gate of Laghman University in Laghman province on 2 February, 2022AFP
Some public univers...
More Chinese food aid bound for distressed Afghanistan
February 2 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Train with around 500 tonnes of wheat, sugar, cooking oil and potato processing equipment prepares to leave Xinjiang for Afghanistan....
Taliban to reopen public universities in Afghanistan
February 1 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban took over the country on August 15 as foreign forces withdrew and the Western-backed government collapsed. (Reuters)
Afgha...
More than 100 ex-government, security employees killed sin...
February 1 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul earlier this month. The UN says more than 100 former Afghan government and security e...
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