Pakistani forces step up raids near the Afghan border, killing 23 militants

November 21, 2025 Current News Articles

Associated Press

November 20, 2025

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided two Pakistani Taliban hideouts in the country’s northwest near the Afghan border, triggering intense shootouts that left 23 militants dead, the military said Thursday.

There were no details on any casualties among the military. The raids took place on Wednesday in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a military statement. The operation followed raids earlier this week across northwestern Pakistan that the army said killed 38 militants.

The military identified the killed militants as “Khawarij,” a term authorities use for militants they allege are backed by Afghanistan and India, including those linked to the banned Pakistani Taliban, a charge Kabul and New Delhi deny.

Also Thursday, a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle killed two police officers and wounded four in the northwestern Dera Ismail Khan district, local police officer Sajjad Khan said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and Khan said an investigation is underway.

The Pakistani Taliban — known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP — are a separate but allied group to Afghanistan’s Taliban. The group has become emboldened since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.

Many TTP leaders and fighters are believed to operate from sanctuaries across the Afghan border, straining relations between Islamabad and Kabul. Pakistan has long urged Kabul to rein in the TTP.

A ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan has largely held since Oct. 19, when Qatar brokered a truce after both sides traded fire on border posts. The clashes erupted after Kabul accused Islamabad of conducting Oct. 9 drone strikes in the Afghan capital that killed several people.

Border crossings between the two neighbors have remained shut since last month.

UK Hosts Summit on Afghanistan Food Security Amid Rising Child Malnutrition

November 20, 2025 Current News Articles

By Fidel Rahmati

Khaama Press

November 20, 2025

The United Kingdom hosted a two-day summit in London to address Afghanistan’s food security crisis, highlighting urgent support needs for vulnerable populations and malnourished children.

The United Kingdom held a two-day summit in London last week to explore ways to improve access to food and basic nutrition for vulnerable Afghans, the British Embassy in Afghanistan said Thursday, November 20.

On the first day of the summit, the UK Foreign Office, experts, and partner organizations discussed the challenges and opportunities in ensuring food security across Afghanistan.

The embassy noted that participants also shared best practices for addressing food insecurity and strengthening humanitarian support for the most at-risk populations.

Meanwhile, the World Food Programme (WFP) emphasized its ongoing support for Afghan children, warning that 3.5 million children are currently facing severe acute malnutrition.

The summit builds on previous UK-led efforts in coordination with UNICEF, which focused specifically on addressing the needs of children in Afghanistan, highlighting the country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Officials stressed that tackling food insecurity in Afghanistan requires a coordinated international response, combining immediate humanitarian aid with long-term strategies to ensure sustainable nutrition access.

The London summit signals the UK’s continued commitment to supporting Afghanistan’s most vulnerable, urging donors and international agencies to step up resources and interventions.

Afghan Children Face Dire Challenges on World Children’s Day

November 20, 2025 Current News Articles

Bibi Amina Hakimi

TOLOnews’ Reporter

20 Nov 2025

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs stated that it has tried to support over 10,000 children.

November 20 marks World Children’s Day, a global occasion dedicated to safeguarding children’s rights and securing a better future. However, in Afghanistan, many children still face harsh living conditions and are forced into hard labor.

Barakatullah, a child laborer, said: “I am the head of my household. I work and bring home bread. I wanted to become an engineer, but after my father passed away, I left school and now I’m forced to work for my family.”

Mohammad, another child laborer, shared: “I’m 12 years old and live in a family of ten. My father has a cart, and I shine shoes myself.”

On the occasion of World Children’s Day, UNICEF has warned that children in Afghanistan are facing a range of crises.

Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, said: “Today is the World Children’s Day, and I want to use this opportunity to acknowledge the resilience of the children in Afghanistan, who this year have had to live through a devastating earthquake, a massive returning crisis, but also struggling with the daily reality of drought, malnutrition, access to education, water, hygiene, and sanitation. For us as UNICEF, no child should live through this.”

Diedrah, Head of UNICEF’s Central Zone in Afghanistan, also emphasized: “Today, World Children’s Day, is a day for us to remember that we want children at the center of all of our plans and policies from the beginning to the end, so the children have a chance to thrive and be the best that they can be for the future of Afghanistan. Happy World Children’s Day.”

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs stated that it has tried to support over 10,000 children.

Samiullah Ebrahimi, spokesperson for the ministry, said: “The Ministry has activated orphanages across all provinces to care for orphans. Currently, around 10,000 children are housed in these facilities.”

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in a message on World Children’s Day, once again stressed the importance of access to education for girls.

In a post on X, Karzai wrote that it is time for the gates of schools and universities to be opened to all girls in the country. According to him, education is the key to Afghanistan’s progress.

He stated: “Our children can only have a bright future, contribute to national development, and compete on the global stage if they are given the opportunity today to acquire knowledge, skills, and expertise.”

Abdul Nasir Rashtia, an economic analyst, said: “Children are the wealth and capital of a nation. In the future, they can be instrumental in rebuilding and advancing the country.”

On this World Children’s Day, families and social activists are once again calling on the international community to pay special attention to the condition of Afghan children — children who will shape the nation’s future, yet today, are among the most in need of support.

Pakistani forces kill 23 fighters in wave of Afghan border raids

November 20, 2025 Current News Articles

By Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies

Pakistani security forces have killed 23 fighters in two separate raids near the Afghan border as tensions simmer between Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan and India.

Forces launched a “targeted operation” on Wednesday in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram District, the military said in a statement on social media, referring to the fighters as “khawarij”, the term it uses for banned groups, including the Pakistan Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The raid led to an “intense” exchange of fire, killing 12 people. No Pakistani military casualties were reported.

Forces then raided another location in the same “general area” and killed 11 more people, the military said.

The killings add to more than 30 that the military has reported throughout the week as it carried out raids largely in the same province, following an Islamabad suicide bombing on November 11 that killed at least 12 people and wounded 30 more.

Without providing evidence, Minister Shehbaz Sharif blamed India for the attack, while Pakistani Minister of Defence Khawaja Asif also implicated Afghanistan. Last week, Pakistan arrested four members of an Afghan cell it accused of taking part.

Pakistan has long alleged that fighter groups are backed by India and Afghanistan, a charge that New Delhi and Kabul deny. Afghanistan has blamed Islamabad for violating its sovereignty through military strikes.

Peace talks in Turkiye’s Istanbul between Afghanistan and Pakistan recently ended without resolution, but both sides maintain that a ceasefire, however fragile, still holds after an eruption of violence between the two.

The Pakistan Taliban has been emboldened since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 after the United States’s withdrawal.

In recent months, the Pakistan Taliban – which wants to overthrow the Pakistani government – has escalated its attacks, which surpassed a decade-old high in August, according to Islamabad-based think tank Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies.

In 2024, the number of incidents recorded surged to 856, up from 645 in 2023.

Pakistan Army kills 30 militants near Afghan border days after Islamabad court blast

November 20, 2025 Current News Articles

Edited By Ajaypal Choudhary

WION NEWS

Published: Nov 20, 2025

These operations were carried out less than a week after a deadly suicide bombing outside Islamabad’s G-11 district court, killing at least 12 people and injuring over 30.

Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in several operations near its border with Afghanistan in the last few days, AFP reported, quoting the Pakistan Army. Twenty-three militants were killed in raids in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, and were related to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or its affiliated groups, the military said in a statement. It also accused India of supporting them in orchestrating strikes inside the country, a claim that New Delhi has rejected.

These operations were carried out less than a week after a deadly suicide bombing outside Islamabad’s G-11 district court, killing at least 12 people and injuring over 30.In a follow-up statement, the military said it killed seven militants in three separate operations in Mohmand, Lakki Marwat and Tank districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on November 18-19. “Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country,” the military stated.

Islamabad has repeatedly accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of sheltering terrorists, particularly members of the TTP, who are blamed for numerous deadly attacks inside Pakistan. Kabul has denied the charges, insisting that Pakistan’s internal security is not Afghanistan’s responsibility.

The relation between Islamabad and Afghanistan took a steep downturn in recent times, and the dispute over the Durand Line results in periodic skirmishes between the two countries. Mass deportations of Afghan nationals, who were living in Pakistan for decades, also further strained relations.

The Istanbul peace talks, after deadly border clashes in October, which killed over 70 people on both sides, have ended without any agreement, with the sides trading blame for the breakdown in negotiations to restore tranquillity at the Durand line and uphold the fragile ceasefire.

At a Shared Symbol of Jihad, the Taliban Defy Their Old Ties With Pakistan

November 20, 2025 Current News Articles

By Mujib Mashal

The Afghan Taliban foreign minister arrived at the Islamic seminary to a rock star’s welcome. Students and teachers swarmed around his limo. Crowds of people streamed past me just to catch a glimpse of him.

But this was not in Afghanistan. The seminary he was visiting was in India, a country that had long kept its distance from the Taliban during their decades as an insurgency that New Delhi saw as a proxy for its archenemy, Pakistan.

During his first official visit to India last month, the Afghan foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, received the warmest welcome. He stood for photographs with officials in New Delhi after they promised to elevate India’s mission in Kabul to a full embassy for the first time in years. And I watched him openly beaming during his pilgrimage to the Deoband seminary in northern India, the spiritual source of the Taliban’s twinned creeds of conservative religion and holy war.

The whole visit seemed to be a message of defiance to Pakistan’s powerful military, once the benefactors of the Taliban’s insurgency in Afghanistan, but increasingly at odds with them now that the movement is in power in Kabul.

Through the years, Pakistan has taken any overture toward India as an inherently hostile act, and Mr. Muttaqi’s visit clearly crossed some line. Within hours of his arrival in India, Pakistan’s military was conducting airstrikes on the Afghan capital, an unprecedented escalation between the former allies that set off a wave of tit-for-tat violence and put both countries on a kind of war footing for a week.

Pakistani officials accuse Afghanistan’s rulers of supporting a resurgent Pakistani Taliban offensive by hosting and sheltering militants who have struck again and again at the security forces within Pakistan.

While Afghan officials deny that support, saying that the attacks within Pakistan are by internally inspired militants, they readily acknowledge a kinship with the Pakistani Taliban. Both groups are largely ethnic Pashtun, and both have common ties to the offshoots of the original Deoband seminary that Mr. Muttaqi visited.

The Deobandi schools in Pakistan cropped up after India’s partition in 1947 and later, with the aid of C.I.A. and Saudi money pumped into the region to defeat the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, helped fuel the jihadi creed that became the Afghan Taliban.

Now, the legacy of that ideology, which repeatedly rallied neighbors to fight invaders, has grown increasingly messy and is dividing the former allies.

That Pakistan would now be facing its own persistent jihadi militancy problem after the Afghan Taliban’s victory over the U.S.-backed Afghan government in 2021 is a result predicted by many analysts — and long feared within Pakistan itself. But the sheer speed of degeneration of relations between the neighbors has surprised many.

“They created their own Frankenstein, and they thought they could control them,” said David B. Edwards, a professor of anthropology at Williams College who has chronicled the rise of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was referring to Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, which initially supported the Taliban insurgency.

Mr. Edwards said the clash between the two governments is a reminder of a more fundamental territorial dispute that had been pushed to the background during decades of conflict in Afghanistan, but never gone away: The Afghan side never fully accepted the 19th-century boundary drawn by the British that split the Pashtun tribes between Afghanistan and what is now Pakistan.

In the wake of recent military escalation, leaders of the Taliban government have resorted to rhetoric showing that cross-border Pashtun nationalism has not been tempered by decades of support and ideological injection from Pakistan.

The Taliban’s deputy interior minister, Mohammad Nabi Omari, who spent a decade in U.S. detention at Guantánamo Bay, has ridiculed Pakistan’s prime minister as a puppet of President Trump. And he used a pejorative term for Pakistani soldiers killed by Taliban fire that the Taliban in the past would use to describe American soldiers or security forces of the Afghan republic.

“God is creating a pretext for that old territory of Afghanistan that is left with them, on that side of a theoretical boundary, to be returned to us,” he told a public gathering in Afghanistan last month.

The red carpet welcome in India for the Taliban foreign minister, who required an exemption from U.N. sanctions to be able to travel, in the middle of the escalation suggested that India was hoping to exploit the tensions. And Afghan officials are publicly demonstrating that they reject any dependence on Pakistan, even religiously or ideologically.

The 135-year-old Deoband seminary that Mr. Muttaqi visited was an important wellspring of conservative Islam for visiting Afghan scholars before its post-independence offshoots in Pakistan took precedence in recent decades. The school emphasized fundamentalist religious teachings over modern sciences, and its followers played an active role in the Indian independence movement against British colonialism.

Last month, leaders of the seminary beamed in pride at reconnecting with Afghan rulers who look up to their ideology. They refused to discuss some of the harshest measures of the Taliban government, including banning girls’ education beyond sixth grade, in the name of that ideology.

“Deoband is like the mother of our knowledge,” Mr. Muttaqi told a large gathering of students and teachers in one hall.

Opinion in Pakistani religious circles has been divided over Mr. Muttaqi’s trip to India. Leaders of the Haqqania madrasa in Pakistan, where he is an alumnus, described the red carpet welcome “of our proud son” as a celebration of the victory of “a long chain of jihadi sacrifice.”

Others, like the Peshawar-based religious scholar Tayyab Qureshi, saw it an expression of ungrateful Taliban seeking new patrons.

“Muttaqi, who learned his religious scholarship and even his Urdu language here in Pakistan, not in Deoband, needs to remember the sacrifices Pakistan paid in their support,” Mr. Qureshi said. “New Delhi is tactfully leveraging the friction between Islamabad and Kabul to advance its own agenda.”

Administrators at seminaries in Pakistan said that Afghan enrollment has dwindled over the past three years, after the Taliban administration set up hundreds of new seminaries of its own across Afghanistan, and Pakistan pushed Afghan refugees back in large numbers.

Now, a month after Mr. Muttaqi’s visit, Afghanistan and Pakistan are still seething at each other. And tensions have risen again between India and Pakistan after deadly bombings a day apart in each capital last week. Some analysts fear that a cycle of blame could bring those nuclear-armed neighbors back toward hostilities just a few months after the cease-fire that halted their alarming four-day military conflict.

In Afghanistan, leaders continue their defiant talk against Pakistan. They make little secret that their ties with the Pakistani Taliban, including their shared bond of conservative ideology, trumps any gratitude to Pakistan’s establishment for its past help.

In his public address last month, Mr. Omari, the Afghan deputy interior minister, warned Pakistan against any further military action. And he flexed the Taliban’s asymmetrical victory against American military might, wondering aloud whether Pakistan might be next.

“You may have airplanes and tanks, but we have the kind of fighters who are sitting here itching for when jihad will begin again,” he said. “Because, when you are addicted to, say, chewing tobacco — excuse my language — you can’t quit so easily.

“Our fighters are used to these wars over the past 20-25 years,” he said, “and they are wishing for another war to be rewarded with martyrdom.”

Zia ur-Rehman contributed reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan and Hari Kumar from the Deoband Islamic seminary.

Mujib Mashal is the South Asia bureau chief for The Times, helping to lead coverage of India and the diverse region around it, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 18, 2025, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Alliance Unravels Between Afghan Taliban and Pakistan’s Military

UK Urges Collective Action as 15 Million People in Afghanistan Face Food Insecurity

November 15, 2025 Current News Articles

By Fidel Rahmati

Khaama Press

November 15, 2025

Britain’s special envoy warned that 15 million people in Afghanistan face food insecurity, urging immediate international action to prevent worsening hunger and widespread malnutrition.

Britain’s special envoy to Afghanistan has warned that 15 million people in the country are experiencing food shortages, calling for immediate and coordinated international action.

Richard Lindsay wrote on X on Thursday, that he discussed Afghanistan’s food security with key partners during a meeting with Hamish Falconer, Britain’s deputy foreign minister.

The UK has long collaborated with the World Food Programme (WFP) to address food insecurity in Afghanistan, recently pledging £40 million to provide emergency food assistance.

According to UN data, roughly 23 million people under Taliban control require humanitarian aid, highlighting the scale of the crisis affecting vulnerable populations across the country.

The WFP has previously warned that Afghanistan is facing one of the world’s worst hunger crises, with one in five Afghans currently struggling with malnutrition.

International aid organizations say urgent support is needed to prevent further deterioration, estimating that $555 million is required to assist the most vulnerable Afghan families.

Experts note that prolonged economic challenges, droughts, and political instability have exacerbated food insecurity, making immediate humanitarian intervention critical to avert widespread malnutrition and potential famine.

Australia to End the Diplomatic Status of Afghan Envoy

November 15, 2025 Current News Articles

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Australian media have reported that the country will not extend the diplomatic credentials of the Afghan ambassador in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

According to these reports, the Australian federal government informed Wahidullah Waissi, the ambassador appointed by the former Afghan government, in a letter in late September of this year that he will no longer hold diplomatic status in the country as of February 2026.

Pakistan arrests 4 from an Afghan cell over deadly Islamabad bombing

November 15, 2025 Current News Articles

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The men arrested are linked to a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, who claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Pakistan has arrested four members of an Afghan cell over their alleged involvement in a deadly suicide bombing in its capital Islamabad earlier this week, as tensions heighten further between the neighbouring foes.

Tuesday’s attack outside a district court was claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Those arrested in connection with the bombing, which killed 12 people and wounded dozens, were linked to the Pakistan Taliban, according to Islamabad.

“The network was handled and guided at every step by the … high command based in Afghanistan,” a Pakistani government statement said on Friday, adding that the cell’s alleged commander and three other members were in custody.

“Investigations are continuing, and more revelations and arrests are expected,” it said, identifying the bomber as Usman alias Qari, a resident of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told the Senate on Thursday that the bomber was Afghan.

Another one of the suspects, Sajid Ullah, told investigators that Saeed-ur-Rehman, a Pakistan Taliban commander, ordered the attack in Islamabad through the Telegram messaging app.

The commander, also known as Daadullah, sent Ullah photographs of the suicide bomber, an Afghanistan citizen, with orders to receive him after he crossed the border into Pakistan from Afghanistan, where he was a resident of Nangarhar province, the government said.

Daadullah, originally from Pakistan’s Bajaur region, is part of the Pakistan Taliban’s intelligence wing and currently hiding in Afghanistan, the government said.

The men were detained in a joint operation by the nation’s Intelligence Bureau and Counter-Terrorism Department, said the government, which did not detail where the arrests were made.

Islamabad has largely been spared from violence by armed groups in recent years, with the last suicide attack occurring in December 2022.

But the country is facing a resurgence of violence, which officials attribute mainly to armed groups allegedly sheltered on Afghan soil.

Naqvi on Monday claimed that Afghan nationals also took part in an assault this week on Cadet College Wana, a military-linked school in northwest Pakistan. Gunmen stormed the college and began a gun battle that lasted nearly 20 hours. Three soldiers and all the attackers were killed.

The Taliban government has not commented on Pakistan’s allegations, but has expressed “deep sorrow & condemnation” over both attacks.

Pakistan Taliban representatives did not comment on the arrests.

The accusations come amid a sharp deterioration in ties between Islamabad and Kabul, with recent attacks prompting the worst cross-border clashes in years last month.

More than 70 people were killed, including dozens of Afghan civilians, according to the United Nations.

The two countries agreed to a fragile ceasefire, but failed to finalise its details during several rounds of negotiations. Each side blamed the other for the impasse.

This week’s attacks now risk triggering renewed hostilities.

Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described the Islamabad bombing as a “horrific act of terrorism”.

“We want peace. We want Afghanistan to agree and be a partner in peace. We believe what’s good for Pakistan is good for them … but we cannot believe lies and not rein in terrorists,” he added.

Afghanistan economic recovery buckles as nine in 10 families go hungry or into debt, UNDP says

November 15, 2025 Current News Articles

By Ariba Shahid

Reuters

November 12, 2025

KARACHI, Nov 12 (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s economic recovery is buckling as nine in 10 households are forced to skip meals, sell belongings or take on debt to survive, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that mass returns are exacerbating the country’s worst crisis since the Taliban returned to power.

A United Nations Development Programme report said nearly one in 10 overseas Afghans has been forced back home, with more than 4.5 million returnees since 2023, mainly from Iran and Pakistan, swelling the population by 10%. On top of that, earthquakes, floods and drought have destroyed 8,000 homes and strained public services “beyond their limits.”

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QUAKES, FLOODS AND HUNGER

A survey of more than 48,000 households found that more than half of Afghanistan’s returnees have skipped medical care to buy food and 45% rely on open springs or unprotected wells for water.

Nearly 90% of returning Afghan families are in debt, owing $373 to $900, up to five times the average monthly income of $100 and nearly half of annual per-capita gross domestic product, the UNDP said.

In areas with high numbers of returnees, one teacher serves 70 to 100 students, 30% of children work and joblessness among returnees reaches 95%. The average monthly income is 6,623 Afghanis ($99.76), while rents have tripled.

The UNDP warned that without urgent support to strengthen livelihoods and services in high-return areas, overlapping crises of poverty, exclusion and migration will deepen.

It said sustaining aid is critical as donor pledges have plunged since 2021, covering only a fraction of the $3.1 billion that the UN sought for Afghanistan this year.

The Taliban government appealed for international humanitarian assistance after a deadly quake struck eastern Afghanistan in September and it has formally protested Pakistan’s mass expulsion of Afghan nationals, saying it is “deeply concerned” about their treatment.

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and a government spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

WOMEN BEAR THE BRUNT

Participation by women in Afghanistan’s labour force has fallen to 6%, one of the lowest globally, and restrictions on movement have made it nearly impossible for women who head households to access jobs, education or healthcare.Kanni Wignaraja, UN assistant secretary-general and UNDP regional director for Asia and the Pacific, said, “In some provinces one in four households depend on women as the main breadwinner, so when women are prevented from working, families, communities, the country lose out.”

Households headed by women, accounting for as many as 26% of returnee families in some districts, face the highest risk of food insecurity and secondary displacement.

The UNDP urged Taliban authorities to allocate more resources and called on donors to lift restrictions on female aid staff.

“Cutting women out of frontline aid work means cutting off vital services for those who need them most,” Wignaraja said.

($1 = 66.3900 afghanis)

Reporting by Ariba Shahid in Karachi; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus

Australian media have reported that the country will not extend the diplomatic credentials of the Afghan ambassador in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

According to these reports, the Australian federal government informed Wahidullah Waissi, the ambassador appointed by the former Afghan government, in a letter in late September of this year that he will no longer hold diplomatic status in the country as of February 2026.

An excerpt from Australian media: “Wahidullah Waissi, the ambassador appointed by Afghanistan’s former government in August 2021, received a letter in late September effectively warning him that as of February he will no longer have diplomatic status.”

Fazlmanullah Mumtaz, a political analyst, commented: “Consular and diplomatic relations are established out of necessity. When those needs no longer exist, maintaining consulates without providing services becomes pointless.”

Meanwhile, Ahmad Javed Mujadidi, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has also announced the end of his mission in the kingdom.

Some political analysts consider the Islamic Emirate’s relations with Saudi Arabia to be good and believe that the embassy in Riyadh is likely to be handed over to a representative of the Islamic Emirate. However, they express a different view regarding the embassy in Australia.

Enayatullah Hemam, a political affairs expert, stated: “The Saudis and Australians may choose to elevate existing relationships, currently defined through informal or official contacts and transfer their embassies to the Islamic Emirate, as some other countries have done.”

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