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Future of Afghan Embassies in Japan and Australia Remains Uncertain

July 30, 2026
TOLOnews
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30 July 2026

Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, said that the policies of some countries have hindered progress in this regard.

It has been months since the Afghan embassies in Japan and Australia suspended and ceased their operations, yet the future of these diplomatic missions remains uncertain.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working to restore consular services for Afghan citizens in the two countries.

Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, said that the policies of some countries have hindered progress in this regard.

“The Islamic Emirate has made continuous efforts to provide consular services for Afghans in all countries, and we have done our part. However, these relations depend on the policies of the host countries, their political readiness, and their legal procedures, all of which create obstacles. So far, no progress has been made. We are concerned about the situation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making its final efforts to ensure consular services are provided to Afghans there,” Mujahid said.

A number of former Afghan diplomats emphasize that the suspension of embassy operations in Australia and Japan has created serious challenges for Afghan nationals living in those countries. These include difficulties in issuing, renewing and replacing passports, registering births, marriages and divorces, processing commercial documents, assisting detained Afghan citizens, providing legal advice, certifying educational documents, and issuing visas for foreign nationals.

“Consular offices exist to protect the interests of their own citizens, but this is done in coordination with the host country. What is crucial is that, for these ties to function effectively within the framework of the two international conventions, countries must recognize one another,” said Ghaus Janbaz, a former Afghan diplomat.

Another former diplomat, Aziz Maarij, said: “In addition to severing political ties, this also affects trade between the two countries and makes it much more difficult to resolve the problems of migrants. Since there are many Afghan migrants in Australia and Japan, it would be better if at least a consular section remained open.”

Earlier, Afghanistan’s former government embassies in Australia and Japan announced the complete suspension of their operations in the two countries.

Previously, the Islamic Emirate declared the documents issued by 14 Afghan diplomatic missions in Western countries—including London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Canada—invalid because those missions were not engaging with Kabul. As a result, documents issued by those missions lost their legal validity.

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Inquiry finds MoD Afghan data breach was foreseeable failure

July 30, 2026
Henry Mooreand
Hannah O’Grady
BBC News
29 July 2026
BBC People carrying luggage walk across an airport tarmac towards large US military transport aircraft during an evacuationBBC
Britain set up scheme to bring those thought to be the most in danger to safety

A data breach that exposed personal details of thousands of Afghans applying to come to the UK to flee the Taliban was a “foreseeable” failure, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

In a report published on Thursday, the Commons’ Defence Committee said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had lacked the expertise to run the UK’s Afghan relocation scheme after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and had used secrecy as a “shield” against proper accountability.

The breach came to light in August 2023 but an unprecedented super-injunction prevented it from being reported on until July 2025.

A MoD spokesperson said the leak “should never have happened” and welcomed the opportunity to learn from the incident.

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A super-injunction is a court-mandated gagging order that forbids news outlets from reporting private or sensitive information.

It also bans the media from revealing that the injunction exists.

The leak was not “an individual mistake” but a “foreseeable systemic failure” caused by “inappropriate tools, weak operating procedures, insufficient training, poor organisational continuity, and an inadequate culture of data protection and accountability”, the Defence Committee said in its report.

The breach, just one of 19 reported between February 2022 and November 2023, was caused by a member of MoD personnel sharing a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a “trusted third party”, the committee added. The BBC previously revealed the breach had originated from UK Special Forces (UKSF) headquarters.

The spreadsheet contained data of more than 18,500 applicants to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) scheme – every person who had applied to the scheme by January 2022.

Arap was set up in April 2021 to help people who feared their lives were at risk because they had worked with British armed forces in Afghanistan and to resettle eligible applicants and their family members in the UK. It was closed in July 2025.

Committee chairman Tan Dhesi said: “The Ministry of Defence should stick to defence – it should never have been left to run immigration casework schemes.”

The report branded the MoD’s use of Excel a “continuing cultural failure” and described the wider Afghan relocation scheme as “utterly and obviously inadequate”.

Dhesi also hit out at the secrecy surrounding the breach and said the length of the super-injunction “imposed serious costs on accountability and trust”.

It was originally expected to last four months, the report found, but remained in place for almost two years.

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The committee also questioned the decision not to provide confidential briefing to parliamentarians, with then-Defence Secretary Grant Shapps pushing back against plans to tell then-shadow defence secretary John Healey of the breach.

Thursday’s report also questioned the government’s overarching policy to not comment on special forces matters, describing it as “inappropriate” in the context of the breach.

The committee added that special forces involvement “should not prevent Parliament and the public from understanding how administrative failings occurred”.

Dhesi said: “Secrecy has been too easily used as a shield against proper accountability in areas far removed from sensitive operations.”

The role of UKSF in the resettlement scheme was also questioned by the committee after reports the breach had been due to their involvement in deciding whether to relocate Afghan special forces.

The committee was unable to establish this connection, due to the “neither confirm nor deny” policy of the government, but it did raise concerns over the handling of these cases.

In February 2024, BBC Panorama revealed that British Special Forces had been given a de facto veto over Arap applications from their Afghan counterparts seeking to relocate to safety in the UK.

Afghan special forces served alongside UKSF on some of the conflict’s most dangerous missions and are considered among those at the highest risk of reprisal since the Taliban takeover.

Last year, the BBC obtained internal MoD documents – also cited in the report – showing a British Special Forces officer personally rejected 1,585 resettlement applications from Afghans with credible links to special forces in a matter of weeks, in 2023. The UKSF officer did not approve a single application during that period.

The rejections from UKSF left many in fear for their lives and former members of the Afghan special forces told the BBC they were living in hiding.

One said he had been interrogated and beaten by the Taliban before he went on the run, while another said he had escaped first but had heard the Taliban had gone to his home looking for him.

“I’m living in a very bad situation. I am in hiding and mostly my family can’t live together and we cannot go out and we cannot work,” he said. “I feel I have been left alone in the midst of hell.”

The government had to announce a review in 2024 and since then 884 former members of Afghan special forces, who served alongside UKSF, have since had their rejections overturned.

The defence committee report outlined that the “proportion of decisions subsequently overturned demonstrates the seriousness of that failure”.

The UK government closed Arap to new applications in 2025, but the report said the government had a “special responsibility” to the Afghan special forces it had wrongly rejected. Many of them had made their applications in 2021, but were still living in fear due to “government delay or error”.

The defence secretary currently faces a legal challenge at the Royal Courts of Justice from former Afghan special forces who are unable to escape to the UK.

In a hearing on Wednesday, the court heard one family had “$200 left to survive”.

A MoD spokesperson said: “This incident should never have happened and we acknowledge the significant impact it has had on many people.

“Thousands of eligible Afghans have already been safely relocated to the UK, where they can rebuild their lives and we are committed to ensuring that we conclude the Afghan resettlement programme by the end of this Parliament.

“We are learning the lessons from this incident and important reforms are already in place, including improved data protection standards, strengthened case-working processes and better programme governance.

“We welcome the public and parliamentary scrutiny of our actions, so we can learn more and be held to account, and we’ll continue to work closely with the committee on this issue.”

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Months of fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed nearly 500 Afghan civilians, UN says

July 30, 2026
By Elena Becatoros | AP
The Washington Post
29 July 2026
The United Nations reports that cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 others between October and June

Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 others between October and the end of June, the United Nations said Tuesday.

In a report on the human rights situation, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said it had documented 499 civilians killed and 1,216 wounded by the fighting between the neighbors that has defied international peace efforts.

In one case, the report said, civilians trying to rescue others from the rubble of an airstrike were hit by a second one.

The report also explores other human rights issues, including a deadly crackdown on protests in western Afghanistan over restrictions on women’s clothing, and decrees that essentially legalize child marriage.

Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fighting on and off for months. Tension escalated significantly in February , when Afghan forces launched a raid into Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan, and Islamabad declared it was in “ open war .”

Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants who carry out deadly attacks that have killed thousands over the years in Pakistan, especially the Pakistani Taliban , known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. The group is allied with the Afghan Taliban , which has ruled Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S.-led troops. Kabul denies the allegation.

In the deadliest attack of the fighting, a Pakistani airstrike hit a drug treatment center in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in March, killing hundreds of civilians. Rights group Amnesty International said last week the bombing should be investigated as a possible war crime.
Pakistan has not given an overall figure for civilian casualties caused by the cross-border fighting in its territory. The U.N. mission, known by its acronym UNAMA, noted it is only mandated to monitor incidents in Afghanistan.

Pakistan denies targeting civilians

In a written response to UNAMA’s report, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said Afghanistan’s Taliban government “continues to maintain a permissive environment for a range of (militant) organizations.”

The response did not mention Afghan civilian casualties but said Pakistan’s military strikes “were directed exclusively at identified terrorist hideouts, sanctuaries, and support infrastructure linked to groups responsible for attacks inside Pakistan.”

The hundreds of civilian casualties listed by UNAMA include 22 — five of them children — who were killed in two successive airstrikes on a residential building in the eastern province of Paktia on June 28. At least 185 others were wounded.

Most of the deaths and injuries were caused by the second strike, when locals were trying to rescue the victims of the first one.

“International humanitarian law provides special protections for medical personnel and humanitarian workers, including first responders. Attacks against them while performing their duties are strictly prohibited,” said Fiona Frazer, director of human rights at UNAMA.

Afghan women still face harsh restrictions

UNAMA’s report also highlighted problems faced by women , who are subject to draconian restrictions by Afghanistan’s Taliban government. They include a ban on education beyond primary school, a strict dress code, bans on working in nearly all professions and a requirement to be accompanied by a male relative when outside the home.

Rules governing women’s clothing stipulate they can only go out in public when wearing full hijab — which includes a headscarf and robe covering the entire body — as well as a face covering that leaves only the eyes visible. The regulations are policed by the feared Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

However, interpretations of the rules and what constitutes wearing the hijab correctly vary and can be arbitrarily enforced.

The UNAMA report said Vice and Virtue officials visited health clinics and shops in various parts of the country to advise them to refuse entry to women not accompanied by a male relative.

The report also said new rules on separation in marriage “ implicitly sanction child marriage “ by allowing for marriage contracts to be arranged for minors.

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Fear of Arrest Keeps Afghan Refugees In Pakistan From Seeking Healthcare, MSF Warns

July 30, 2026
Khaama Press

Thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan are delaying or avoiding essential medical care because they fear arrest, detention and deportation under Islamabad’s ongoing campaign against undocumented migrants, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday, warning that the policy is putting vulnerable families at growing risk.

In a new report, MSF said Pakistan’s Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan (IFRP) has severely affected refugees’ access to healthcare, with many Afghans avoiding hospitals and clinics for fear they could be detained while seeking treatment. The medical charity said the trend is contributing to worsening child malnutrition, untreated chronic illnesses, pregnancy-related complications and preventable diseases among displaced Afghan communities.

Many Afghan refugees are living in constant fear of arrest, losing their livelihoods and being forcibly returned to Afghanistan, MSF said, calling on Pakistan to halt forced returns and ensure that refugees and asylum seekers can safely access healthcare without fear of detention or deportation.

Pakistan has accelerated its deportation campaign since late 2023, targeting undocumented foreign nationals, the vast majority of whom are Afghans. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than one million Afghans have returned or been deported from Pakistan since the campaign began, placing additional pressure on Afghanistan’s already fragile humanitarian response.

MSF said many refugees now avoid seeking treatment until medical conditions become critical, increasing the risk of severe illness and preventable deaths. The organization warned that delayed access to healthcare also poses wider public health concerns by increasing the spread of infectious diseases and reducing access to routine vaccinations and maternal care.

The warning comes as Afghanistan continues to face one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. According to the United Nations, millions of Afghans require humanitarian assistance, while widespread poverty, unemployment and repeated climate-related shocks have left much of the population dependent on aid. The country’s healthcare system remains under severe strain following years of conflict, economic decline and reductions in international funding, limiting access to essential medicines, medical staff and specialized care.

Aid agencies have also warned that the growing number of returnees is placing additional pressure on already overstretched health facilities and humanitarian services, particularly in border provinces where thousands of deported Afghans arrive each week with few possessions and limited access to shelter, food or medical support.

The United Nations has repeatedly expressed concern that many of those being returned include women, children, elderly people, people with disabilities and individuals with international protection needs, who could face heightened risks after returning to Afghanistan. Humanitarian organizations have urged Pakistan and other host countries to ensure that refugee returns are safe, voluntary and dignified, in line with international law and the principle of non-refoulement, while allowing those in need of protection continued access to asylum procedures and essential public services, including healthcare.

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Germany Deports Another Group of Afghan Nationals

July 30, 2026
Mitra Majeedy
Journalist
Tolo News
29 July 2026

The deportation coincided with protests outside the airport, where hundreds of demonstrators gathered to oppose the move.

Germany has deported another group of Afghan nationals to Kabul on a special charter flight from Leipzig Airport.

The deportation coincided with protests outside the airport, where hundreds of demonstrators gathered to oppose the move.

According to German media reports, nearly 250 people, including a number of Afghan nationals, took part in the protest, calling on the German government to halt deportations to Afghanistan.

“It is very important for us that these protests take place. This process must not become normalized, and we want deportations to Afghanistan to stop,” German protester Luca Müller said.

Despite the demonstrations, the charter flight departed for Afghanistan early Tuesday.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the government would continue to enforce its strict migration policy.

Speaking to MDR, Armin Schuster, interior minister of the state of Saxony, said the 30 Afghan nationals deported on the flight were “repeat offenders and dangerous criminals.”

“These are repeat offenders and dangerous criminals who have repeatedly been convicted of violent crimes, including causing serious bodily harm, and have served prison sentences. The group also includes individuals convicted of drug trafficking, physical assaults, and similar offenses. We hope, as the federal interior minister has said, that this process will be expanded and that deportation flights to Afghanistan will continue on a regular basis,” Schuster said.

Migrant rights activists, citing German media reports, said one of the deported Afghan nationals had no criminal conviction, raising questions about the criteria used for deportation.

Mohammad Khan Talebi Mohammadzai, a migrant rights activist, said: “The current Afghan authorities could invoke the principle of non-refoulement and international legal obligations to urge Germany to suspend forced deportations until conditions and administrative capacity improve in Afghanistan.”

Germany halted deportations to Afghanistan after the Islamic Emirate returned to power in 2021. However, it resumed deporting Afghan nationals convicted of serious crimes in 2025, a policy that has also been supported by the country’s current government.

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UN Says More Efforts Needed to Advance Doha Process on Afghanistan

July 30, 2026
Mitra Majeedy
Journalist
Tolo News
29 July 2026

UNAMA says progress has been made toward developing a comprehensive approach, but further efforts are still needed.

The United Nations launched the Doha Process in 2023, initiating regular meetings among the special representatives of various countries on Afghanistan.

The process aims to establish a common framework for engagement with the Islamic Emirate and to create conditions for Afghanistan’s gradual reintegration into the international community.

Political analyst Khalil Ahmad Nadim said: “The three meetings held in Doha were intended to integrate Afghanistan into the international community, but so far we have not seen any tangible results. Either the international community’s demands are still unclear, or the Afghan government is not giving a positive response.”

In response to TOLOnews regarding the Doha meetings, UNAMA said that the Doha Process is the principal framework for discussions on Afghanistan’s political issues.

The United Nations has emphasized that the Doha Process brings together the international community and the Islamic Emirate for structured engagement to achieve long-term objectives, including Afghanistan’s integration into the international community and peace within the country and with its neighbors.

UNAMA says progress has been made toward developing a comprehensive approach, but further efforts are still needed.

UNAMA added: “Three years after the first meeting of Special Representatives on Afghanistan, progress has been made in developing a comprehensive approach that serves the people of Afghanistan while supporting the objectives of the international community. However, as emphasized in the UN Secretary-General’s report, further action is required. We once again call on participants in the Doha Process, in line with the Secretary-General’s request, to continue their engagement and participation within this comprehensive framework—one that supports Afghanistan’s future reintegration into the international community.”

Political analyst Moeen Gul Samkanai said: “There has been renewed momentum within the international community regarding issues related to Afghanistan. We want to maintain balanced relations with all parties because we have learned from the past and do not want to return to the conditions of the 1980s.”

So far, it remains unclear when the fourth Doha meeting on Afghanistan will be held.

However, on 24 January, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo visited Kabul for a three-day trip, where she held talks with officials of the Islamic Emirate on the Doha Process and its working group meetings.

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UK appoints Minister Stephen Doughty to oversee Afghanistan, Pakistan affairs

July 28, 2026
Khaama Press

The United Kingdom has appointed Stephen Doughty as the minister responsible for Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East and North Africa, expanding his portfolio to include sanctions policy and consular affairs as London reshapes its diplomatic engagement across several strategically important regions.

Doughty, who assumed the role on July 21, announced the appointment in a post on X, saying he would oversee policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East, North Africa, sanctions and consular services. He said protecting British nationals overseas would remain a key priority alongside advancing the UK’s foreign policy objectives.

The appointment comes as Britain continues to navigate complex challenges across the region, including Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis, instability in the Middle East and evolving security dynamics in Pakistan and North Africa.

Afghanistan remains a key foreign policy priority for London following the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. The UK has continued to provide humanitarian assistance, advocate for women’s and girls’ rights, support vulnerable Afghans and coordinate its policy with international partners, while maintaining sanctions against senior Taliban figures.

Pakistan also remains central to Britain’s regional strategy because of its role in counterterrorism, migration, regional stability and longstanding bilateral ties.

As part of his expanded responsibilities, Doughty will oversee Britain’s approach to sanctions, consular affairs and regional diplomacy, managing some of the UK’s most significant foreign policy portfolios amid continuing conflicts, humanitarian crises and geopolitical tensions across the broader region.

According to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Doughty previously served as Minister of State for Europe, North America and the Overseas Territories. Before joining the government, he worked with international humanitarian and development organizations, including World Vision and Oxfam, and later served as the Labour Party’s shadow minister for foreign affairs and international development, bringing experience in diplomacy, humanitarian policy and international development to his new role.

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Former Afghan Diplomat Abdul Ghafoor Rawan Farhadi Dies at 96

July 28, 2026
Mohammad Bashir Soltani
Reporter, Political Writer
Tolo News
27 July 2026

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai described Farhadi’s passing as a great loss to Afghanistan’s cultural community.

 Abdul Ghafoor Rawan Farhadi, a former Afghan diplomat, author, researcher, and one of the country’s most prominent intellectuals, passed away Sunday evening at the age of 96 in the United States.

His son, Tariq Farhadi, said his father died of old age.

Farhadi was an influential figure in Afghanistan’s political history and, alongside his diplomatic career, left a lasting legacy in the fields of history, Islamic mysticism, linguistics, and literature.

Tariq Farhadi said: “Rawan Farhadi passed away at the age of 96. He witnessed nearly a century of Afghanistan’s history. During the reign of King Zahir Shah, he served as Secretary to the Council of Ministers.”

After completing his higher education in France, Farhadi began his official career at Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over several decades, he served in various diplomatic positions, including more than a decade as Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

In addition to his political career, Farhadi was widely recognized as a leading scholar of Persian and Pashto language and literature, Islamic mysticism, and Afghan history.

University professor Ismail Roshangar said: “Besides being a seasoned diplomat, Rawan Farhadi contributed to the English translation of Rumi’s quatrains and played an important role in introducing Persian literary works to the Western world.”

Farhadi earned his doctorate in Indo-Iranian Studies from France’s Sorbonne University in 1955 with a dissertation titled “Spoken Persian of Afghanistan.”

In addition to Afghanistan’s two official languages, he was fluent in French, English, and Arabic, and for many years taught Persian literature at universities in Paris and Berkeley.

Major Works and Cultural Contributions
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
Translation of Manazil al-Sa’irin
Translation of The Passion of al-Hallaj by Louis Massignon
Twenty-two years of collaboration on the complete English translation of Rumi’s quatrains
Avicenna and Mysticism
The Tajik Language of Transoxiana
History of Pashto Pronunciation and Morphology
Research on Persian vocabulary through Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Compilation of Siraj al-Akhbar articles and the works of Mahmoud Tarzi
Publication of more than 15 books in French and dozens of scholarly articles

Farhadi’s funeral is scheduled to take place in San Francisco, California, within the next two days.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai described Farhadi’s passing as a great loss to Afghanistan’s cultural community.

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UNAMA Report Highlights Women’s Rights, Education Ban in Afghanistan

July 28, 2026
Mitra Majeedy
Journalist
Tolo News
28 July 2026

The report also referred to the detention of media workers, saying it reflects a difficult and concerning environment.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in its latest quarterly human rights report, addressed issues including women’s rights, the recently issued regulation on the separation of spouses, restrictions on female UN staff, and the continued ban on girls’ education.

UNAMA said it documented 389 cases of arbitrary arrest and detention and 65 cases of ill-treatment involving Afghan women and men by personnel of the Vice and Virtue Ministry between April 1 and June 30.

According to the report, these cases were linked to alleged violations of the hijab directive for women, beard grooming and “Western” hairstyles for men, and the playing or listening of music.

Women’s rights activist Tafsir Siyahpoosh said: “Afghanistan is an Islamic country where women live according to Islamic values and many voluntarily observe the hijab. She said education is the best way to strengthen these values.”

The report also referred to the detention of media workers, saying it reflects a difficult and concerning environment.

UNAMA further stated that although the Islamic Emirate has not publicly released figures on corporal punishment as it did previously, the UN documented the implementation of 137 ta’zir punishments during the reporting period, including 112 men and 25 women.

Religious scholar Hasibullah Hanif said establishing justice is one of the state’s fundamental responsibilities, adding that the principles of ta’zir and qisas can contribute to upholding justice when properly applied.

The Islamic Emirate has not recently commented on the report but has consistently maintained that women’s rights are protected in Afghanistan. It has also previously urged UNAMA to reflect what it describes as the realities of Afghanistan in its reports.

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Sources: Daesh and Other Armed Opposition Bases Targeted in Chitral

July 28, 2026
Bibi Amina Hakimi
TOLOnews’ Reporter
28 July 2026
They said the pre-designated targets were successfully hit, inflicting heavy casualties on members of the two groups.
Sources say a series of airstrikes targeted positions of armed opposition groups and Daesh (ISIS) centres in the Shah Salim area of Chitral, across the Durand Line. According to the sources, the strikes were carried out by the forces of the Islamic Emirate.

The sources added that the operation was aimed at locations allegedly used by armed opposition groups and Daesh members to plan and coordinate attacks against Afghanistan.

They said the pre-designated targets were successfully hit, inflicting heavy casualties on members of the two groups.

Political analyst Akhtar Mohammad Rasekh said: “Daesh and other opponents of the current government maintain bases in some areas of Pakistan, including Chitral. Some Afghan migrants are also being used to advance intelligence activities and carry out targeted operations.”

However, as of the publication of this report, neither Afghan nor Pakistani officials had commented on the reported airstrikes.

The reports come at a time when relations between Kabul and Islamabad have been marked by heightened political and security tensions in recent months. Both sides have repeatedly accused each other of harbouring and supporting armed groups.

Military analyst Sadiq Shinwari said: “Targeting the positions and centres of opposition groups inside Pakistan could not only reduce security threats against Afghanistan but also contribute to improving regional security.”

The reports follow an earlier announcement by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence, which said it had carried out strikes against Daesh centres in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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