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From patron to prey: The rise and fragmentation of Pak’s terror landscape

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s remarks during a live news interview, that his country has been doing “dirty work” for the West for the last three decades, was a stunning admission on Islamabad’s long history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations. A decade ago, former army chief and president…

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Kashmir crisis: what is Lashkar-e-Taiba and is it supported by Pakistan?

India claims to have attacked camps associated with a militant group in Pakistan – but what is its relationship with Islamabad?

The Guardian - UK

Despite War's End, Afghanistan Remains Deep In Crisis: UN Relief Chief

Climate change, women's rights, displacement, poverty: Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher told AFP on Wednesday, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.

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‘I worked for the British in Kabul embassy for 18 years. Let me reunite with my sons’

Family brought to the UK on Afghan resettlement scheme plead to be reunited with their two eldest sons

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands of Afghans return from Pakistan after deadline

More than 80,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan between 1 and 18 April, following the expiry of a voluntary return deadline, Pakistani officials have said.

Euronews

Pakistani troops kill 54 militants attempting to sneak into Pakistan from Afghanistan

Pakistan’s military says its security forces overnight have killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from neighboring Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Pakistani military says it killed 54 militants attempting to cross border from Afghanistan

The insurgents were spotted and killed near the former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near North Waziristan, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the Afghan border.

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'The Arabs Love to Flirt with Men': Briton Claims He Had a Fling with a Taliban Fighter While in Afghanistan

A British man alleges he had a flirtatious encounter with a Taliban fighter during his time in Afghanistan.

International Business Times UK

After a year of hostility, Pakistan and Afghanistan seek diplomatic reboot

Ishaq Dar visits Kabul as Pakistan and Afghanistan attempt to revive stalled diplomatic ties amid refugee expulsion.

Al Jazeera

Fleeing Pakistan, Afghans Rebuild From Nothing

Pushed out of Pakistan where she was born, Nazmine Khan's first experience of her country, Afghanistan, was in a sweltering tent at a border camp.

International Business Times

Taliban Change Tune Towards Afghan Heritage Sites

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan.

International Business Times

Monday briefing: How Trump’s cuts to USAID are already harming the world’s worst off

In today’s newsletter: The US aid agency has been a lifeline for developing nations since the 1960s – its destruction is already having huge consequences around the world

The Guardian - UK

A ‘strange dance’: media mogul Saad Mohseni on making TV under the Taliban

Once dubbed the ‘Afghan Rupert Murdoch’, Saad Mohseni’s media business was founded after the fall of the Taliban and is now navigating their return

The Guardian - UK

“Imagine being told you can’t run, just because of who you are”: how Free to Run is using outdoor sports to empower girls and women

We meet up with a charity that uses running, hiking and camping to empower girls and women in places afflicted by conflict and gender discrimination

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The Independent UK

Meet the last female Afghan ambassador as she leads the resistance against the Taliban

INTERVIEW: Arpan Rai sits down with Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s only remaining female ambassador, to talk about the Taliban’s new regime and what it means to resist

International Business Times

Pakistan Foreign Minister Due In Kabul As Deportations Rise

Pakistan's foreign minister was due to visit Afghanistan on Saturday after his country expelled more than 85,000 Afghans, mostly children, in just over two weeks.

The Independent UK

Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer reenlists in Marine Corps reserves after 15 years

Dakota Meyer, a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Afghanistan War, is reenlisting in the the military and will serve in the Marine Reserves

The Independent UK

Russia’s top court removes Taliban’s terror group designation

The ruling does not amount to formal recognition for the Taliban authorities

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Al Jazeera

Russia’s Supreme Court suspends ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban

The group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 is removed from Russia’s list of banned ‘terror’ organisations.

Euronews

Russia's top court removes terrorist designation on Afghanistan's Taliban

Russian officials have recently emphasised the need to engage with the Taliban to "help stabilise" Afghanistan.

International Business Times

Russia Scraps Taliban's 'Terror' Label Amid Warming Ties

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday removed the Taliban's designation as a "terrorist organisation", a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan's de facto rulers.

International Business Times

Malnourished Children In Afghanistan At 'High Risk Of Dying' Without US Aid

At a malnutrition treatment centre in Afghanistan's capital, the cries of children have given way to a heavy silence, as patients are turned away and medical staff laid off due to US aid cuts.

The Independent UK

Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts, aid official says

An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts

Evening Standard

Afghanistan veteran guilty of killing amputee who was run over with own Mercedes

Errol Woodger broke into a block of flats in Erith, south-east London, in the early hours of December 29 2019, the Old Bailey had heard.

International Business Times

More Than 10% Of Afghans Could Lose Healthcare By Year-end: WHO

More than 10 percent of the Afghan population could be deprived of healthcare by the end of the year due to the termination of US aid, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.

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