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Nearly 12,000 Afghan migrants were deported from Iran and Pakistan from July 3-6, Khaama Press reported, citing the Taliban-led Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation. In a newsletter, the Taliban-led Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said that 11,997 Afghan migrants were expelled by the governments of Pakistan and Iran and have returned to Afghanistan. According to the newsletter, the expelled people entered Afghanistan through the borders of Torghundi, Spin Boldak, Islam Qala-Herat, and Abreshim-Nimruz between July 3-6. The trend of deporting Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan continues amid a humanitarian crisis despite international reactions, according to Khaama Press report. The […] #Asia #Government Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/afghan-migrants-deported-pakistan/?feed_id=13089

Following the Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban is denying reports that it has accommodated a resurgence of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, which has established eight new training camps and five madrassas (Islamic educational institutions) and unknown number of safe houses around the country, a report from the UN Security Council in late January 2024 revealed. “This accommodation of Al Qaeda within Afghanistan has validated longstanding fears voiced by many observers regarding the country once again becoming a safe haven for terrorist organizations under Taliban rule”, said Shahin Modarres, an international security analyst specializing in Iran affiliated […] #Asia #Featured #Government Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/taking-advantage-of-bidens-retreat-al-qaeda-turns-afghan-madrassas-into-training-camps/?feed_id=9323

Rishi Sunak’s government has been tying itself up in knots over its baroque Rwanda scheme. Although the so-called ‘emergency’ bill survived a second reading on Tuesday in the House of Commons it’s highly likely that it will be amended. The bill is quite useless as it stands, mere window dressing.   The idea of sending […] #Featured #Investigations #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/rwanda/?feed_id=7448

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher Pakistan’s caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti ordered on October 4 for “illegal immigrants” to vacate the country by the end of the month, a move which threatens to spark another migration crisis in Europe. Although Europe is focused on dealing with refugees from Ukraine and Palestine, it is naïve to the looming refugee crisis that Pakistan can cause if it goes ahead with the mass deportations of Afghans, many of whom fled Taliban rule. Although Pakistan announced on November 10, after receiving backlash from human rights organisations, that it had extended […] #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/pakistans-expulsion-of-afghans/?feed_id=6614

This hard-hitting book is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour—and the chaos it unleashed in the world. #Featured #Investigations #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/08/kabul-book-afghanistan-withdrawal/?feed_id=2494

by Asif Haroon Raja The end of the war in Afghanistan in Aug 2021 raised hopes in Pakistan that its western border would become peaceful. After a few months of peace, cross-border terrorism recommenced which has claimed the lives of many officers and men of the Army as well as of FC and the Police. […] #Featured #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/05/thoughts-on-terrorism-afghanistan/?feed_id=504

by Asif Haroon Raja The end of the war in Afghanistan in Aug 2021 raised hopes in Pakistan that its western border would become peaceful. After a few months of peace, cross-border terrorism recommenced which has claimed the lives of many officers and men of the Army as well as of FC and the Police. […]

VT's Hanan Habibzai explores China's New Business Investment Strategy in Afghanistan

VT's Hanan Habibzai reports from Afghanistan

VT's Hanan Habibzai reports from Afghanistan

VT's Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould share their latest book The Valediction: Resurrection with VT Radio Host Johnny Punish

VT's Fitzgerald and Gould report on Pashtun tribal leader Badshah Khan - a peer of Gandhi – who started Afghanistan’s indigenous non-violent movement known as the Khudai-Khidmatgar

VT fan and author Brandon Raub gives us his Restore The Republic Manifesto

Investigative Journalists Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould explore Afghanistan caught in between the Russians, Americans and their own peoples.

Investigative Journalists Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould explore Afghanistan caught in between the Russians, Americans and their own peoples.

Investigative Journalists Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould explore Afghanistan caught in between the Russians, Americans and their own peoples.

The Indian government has dispatched the first tranche of 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan, part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance, through the land route crossing Pakistan.