Fresh developments along the disputed Durand Line point to a shift on the ground, with reports suggesting Taliban forces have removed barriers and altered control dynamics at key border points.
The Ministry of Public Health has reported that two million (20 lakh) people visited healthcare centres for treatment of mental health disorders, including anxiety last year.
The latest round of Afghanistan-Pakistan peace talks in Istanbul ended without agreement, with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan accusing Islamabad of insincerity and attempting to shift blame onto Afghanistan.
Heavy fighting between Pakistani forces and Afghanistan’s Taliban militia along the Durand Line bordering the two nations has left scores dead and hundreds injured, according to reports on Wednesday.
The award-winning wordsmith expressed deep disappointment over the grand reception given to Afghan Foreign Minister and senior Taliban figure, Amir Khan Muttaqi.
Perhaps the most ironical aspect of reports emerging from Afghanistan that the Taliban made a bonfire of musical instruments in their attempt to stamp out an activity they consider unIslamic is that they coincide with the 43rd death anniversary of a man considered by many as the greatest male singer to have emerged from South Asia. Mohammed Rafi was a lower-caste Muslim, a simple and unlettered man, but second to none in his piety.
A similar incident occurred last week in the Badghis province where three people died, including the truck driver, reported Khaama Press.
Hasiba Noori 38 years old is a famous female Afghanistani singer, who was sought refuge in Pakistan's Islamabad, killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Indians will not fail to miss the irony inherent in the message delivered over the weekend by Pakistan’s defence minister Khwaja Asif to the Taliban regime that rules Afghanistan.
The TTP phenomenon, besides thriving in tribal areas and populace with co-ethnicity and accompanying sensibilities, are aided immeasurably via their social media outreach that is preying on the failed state imperative, socio-economic morass and sheer desperation that has consumed the Pakistani narrative and its discredited establishment. The Pakistani socio-economic distress is here to stay and that makes it fertile territory for the TTP agenda to extend beyond the invisible and unrecognised Durand Line
