Around 25 women marched through a residential area in the Afghan capital on Saturday ahead of a summit in Doha.

The UN has asked all its staff to remain at home after the Taliban banned Afghan women from working for the world body. Hundreds of Afghan women employed by the UN are critical in delivering life-saving aid in Afghanistan, where millions are at risk of starvation.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the Tajik government "strictly observe its obligations to respect and protect people’s rights to life, and freedom of assembly and the media in any military or law enforcement operations in Tajikistan’s autonomous region.

By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting China in the Asian-Pacific region, the United States announced the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022. The strategy has set up some ambiguous yet interesting objectives for the Indo-Pacific region, which was a battleground for the US-China economic and strategic competition lately and has now become …

Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili ethnic group. About 100 detainees, including seven journalists, are awaiting trial. Authorities in Tajikistan have forced the closure of two religious bodies in the capital Dushanbe within a succession of a week, according to media reports. The institutions are the …

News Desk Three senior commanders of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed reportedly in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan, dealing a heavy blow to the militant group, wrote Daud Khattak, the Managing Editor of Radio Mashaal on Sunday (Aug 7). One of the commanders was Abdul Wali alias Omar Khalid Khorasani, who was considered to have been one of …

Authorities in Tajikistan are putting the squeeze on the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) organizations and companies.

Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

By news desk Police in Tajikistan have said that “leader of an organized criminal group,” has been killed as a “result of internal clashes between criminal groups” in the country’s restive Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. Mahmadboqir Mahmadboqirov was believed to be one of the influential yet informal leaders of the autonomous oblast. He was said to have been killed on May …

Regional powers are seeking to fill the vacuum left by the abrupt departure of the US and its Western allies.

There is nothing more obscene than the existence of hunger, the terrible indignity of working hard but being without the means for sustenance.

Tajikistan has no intention of getting into a direct confrontation with the Taliban. Rather, by taking a few more risks than its neighbours, the Tajik leadership is counting on boosting its popularity, both at home and abroad.

The group, which includes two female military pilots, said they do not want to remain in Tajikistan and hope to resettle in the United States

The matter of granting provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan involves a contested political process with multifarious implications to the interests of stakeholders