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Attack on journalists in Mazar-e-Sharif widely condemned

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(Last Updated On: March 12, 2023)

Saturday’s bomb blast targeting journalists in Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Balkh province has been widely condemned by countries and organizations around the world.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it was a despicable attack and called for violence to stop.

“Afghan reporters show immense courage & must be protected,” UNAMA said on Twitter.

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Tomas West said he was “deeply saddened” by the attack.

“We condemn these continued, senseless acts of violence. We believe in the resilience of the Afghan people and their capacity to rebound,” West said.

EU Charge d’Affaires for Afghanistan also strongly condemned the attack on journalists and that which killed Balkh governor two days earlier.

“This violence needs to stop. My thoughts are with those injured and all grieving families. Journalists risk their lives for their work and have to be protected. They are #NotATarget!” Raffaella Iodice said on Twitter.

Iran’s foreign ministry condemned the attack as “cowardly.”

Nasser Kanaani, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said that such attacks are carried out by the enemies of peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Saturday’s bomb blast at Tebyan cultural center in Mazar-e-Sharif city killed a guard and wounded eight others including five journalists.

No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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India says Afghan embassy issue an ‘internal matter’

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(Last Updated On: June 4, 2023)

After reports of corruption and the move by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to take control of Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi, the Indian government has said the issue is an internal matter which does not involve them.

Representatives of Afghan refugees living in India have accused officials at the Afghanistan embassy in Delhi, including the ambassador, of corruption. The embassy denies the allegations.

Indian media have also reported that the embassy resisted IEA’s move to formally take control of the embassy.

Arindam Bagchi, India’s foreign ministry spokesman, said in a press conference that the issue is an internal matter of the embassy.

“From our perspective, this is an internal matter of the Afghan Embassy, and we hope that they would resolve it internally,” Bagchi said.

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UNSC to hold meeting on Afghanistan’s situation

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(Last Updated On: June 4, 2023)

The United Arab Emirates’ Permanent Representative to the UN Lana Nusseibeh said the UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Afghanistan later this month.

Nusseibeh, who is currently President of the Security Council, said: “We will hold a comprehensive meeting on Afghanistan’s situation on June 21.

“Our focus will be concentrated on Afghanistan’s situation, women’s rights in particular, over which all the members of the Security Council have agreed,” she added.

On Thursday, Nusseibeh told media in New York that the UN Security Council will continue working on the issues of Afghanistan, especially on women’s rights.

According to the UAE ambassador, Fraidoon Oglu, the UN Special Coordinator for Afghanistan Affairs will provide a comprehensive report about the situation in the country to the Security Council in November.

This comes after Fox News reported on Friday that several US Senators have proposed a bill to tighten sanctions against IEA officials in response to human rights violations in Afghanistan.

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TTP launching attacks using Afghan soil, says Pakistan’s interior minister

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(Last Updated On: June 3, 2023)

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has once again claimed that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is launching attacks against the country using Afghanistan’s soil. 

“The position of the Afghan government is that they say we do not support Tehreek-e-Taliban against the government of Pakistan, but we have complaints about them, the people of this group enter Pakistan from Afghanistan; almost two months ago, they (Islamic Emirate) told us that we are moving them further away from the border so that they do not have access to attack Pakistan,” said Rana Sanaullah in an interview. 

The Islamic Emirate meanwhile has consistently emphasized that no group will be allowed to use Afghan soil against other countries.

“Afghan soil is not used against anyone and we do not allow Afghan soil to be used against Pakistan or any other country,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, IEA’s spokesman. 

“The policy of the Islamic Emirate has been analyzed in the light of Afghanistan’s issues and the country’s national interests, which is indeed a neutral and balanced policy adopted within the framework of international interests and international security,” said Hatef Mokhtar, a political analyst.

This comes after a high-ranking delegation of IEA officials, led by Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, visited Pakistan for talks. At a meeting with Pakistani officials in Islamabad, they emphasized the need for the expansion of diplomatic relations and bilateral cooperation.

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