Afghanistan: General News and Discussion

Taliban minister says Afghanistan relied on Pakistan for 70% of medicines​


by The Frontier Post

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KABUL (Amu tv): Noor Jalal Jalali, the Taliban health minister, said on Tuesday that the country is seeking to reduce its reliance on medicines imported from Pakistan, which he said previously supplied up to 70% of Afghanistan’s pharmaceutical market.

Jalali, speaking at a news conference in Kabul after returning from a five-day visit to India, said a key goal of his visit to New Delhi was to find alternatives for Afghanistan’s medicines imports.

According to him, his ministry aims to diversify medicine supplies by boosting domestic production and increasing imports from other countries, including India and Iran.

“Afghanistan’s medicine market was 60% to 70% dependent on Pakistan,” Jalali said. “We do not want to rely on just one country. We want to meet our needs through domestic production as well as imports from several countries.”

Jalali said his ministry’s priority was combating disease rather than politics. “My enemy is illness,” he said. “Whoever provides effective medicine to fight disease is my friend.”

Taliban stopped the imports of medicines from Pakistan in November after heightened tensions with the neighboring country.
 

6.8m refugees return home, 1.3m displaced internally: Minister​


by The Frontier Post

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Minister of Refugees and Repatriation Mawlawi Abdul Kabir says as many as 6.8 million Afghan refugees have returned to the country over the past four years, while 1.3 million people internally displaced due to natural disasters.

He made these remarks during a joint meeting of a working group formed by the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) with relevant ministries and institutions to finalise the draft plan for durable solutions to displacement, MoRR said in a statement.

It quoted Kabir as saying that stability in Afghanistan and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) control across the entire country had led to a decline in migration, with a significant reduction in the number of Afghans leaving the country. However, he did not specify the extent of the decrease.

He also noted that over the past more than four years, 1.3 million Afghans were displaced internally as a result of natural disasters.

The minister added the durable solutions plan would be effective in addressing both refugee issues and the challenges faced by internally displaced persons (IDPs), in improving coordination among relevant government and international institutions, mobilising assistance, identifying needs and clarifying areas of work.

During the meeting, deputy ministers and representatives from the ministries of education), agriculture, irrigation and livestock, public health, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) and Kabul Municipality shared their views on the draft plan.
 
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Tajikistan says 5 killed in armed clash on border with Afghanistan​


by The Frontier Post

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(AA): Five people were killed in an armed clash on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Tajik state media said Thursday.

Citing a statement by the Border Troops of the Tajik State Committee for National Security, state news agency Khovar reported that three people crossed into the country late Tuesday in the Shamsiddin Shohin district of the country’s southwestern Khatlon region, and were later located on Wednesday.

“The terrorists refused to obey orders from Tajik border guards to surrender and offered armed resistance. They intended to carry out an armed attack on one of the border posts of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan,” the statement said.

“As a result of the combat operation, all three terrorists were neutralized,” the statement said, adding that two Tajik border officers were killed during the clashes.

According to the statement, this was the third “armed attack, terrorist act, and border crossing” from Afghanistan in the past month.

It also accused the Afghan government of “demonstrating serious and repeated irresponsibility and non-commitment in fulfilling its international obligations and consistent promises to ensure security and stability” on the Tajik-Afghan border.

The Tajik statement additionally expressed hope that the Afghan administration will “apologize to the people of Tajikistan and take additional effective measures to ensure security on the border with Tajikistan.”

Afghanistan did not immediately comment on the development.

Earlier this month, Tajikistan said five people were killed and five others injured in two previous cross-border attacks from Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon commissioned four new border outposts, as well as a training range for tanks at the Harb-Maidon training ground near the Tajik-Afghan border, as part of efforts to bolster border security amid growing concerns over cross-border attacks.
 
Taliban have suspended the payment of salaries to all public employees until further notice, three sources said, including one official from the Taliban-run Ministry of Finance.

The sources said the order applies to all ministries and government departments. Taliban officials have not publicly explained the reason for the decision and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

While the Taliban have previously delayed salary payments for civil servants, the sources said this marks the first time payments have been formally suspended without a specified date for resumption.

Earlier this year, the Taliban approved salary payments after a delay of about three months, covering the solar months of Hamal and Sawr (March 21 to May 21). At the time, sources in the Taliban-run finance ministry said salary expenditures in Kabul were set at 118 million afghanis ($1.7 million), while payments for public employees in Kandahar amounted to about 226 million afghanis ($3.4 million), nearly double the Kabul figure.

Some government employees said the latest suspension comes at a particularly difficult time, as many families face financial strain during the winter months.

“Even though our salaries and benefits are limited, receiving them allows us to pay rent and cover basic household needs,” one civil servant said, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

Afghanistan has faced a prolonged economic crisis since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, with public sector workers among those hardest hit by budget shortfalls, aid cuts and restrictions on banking and international funding.
 
@Dalit bro

Our Afghan brethren are hardy folks. They can live off the land and stay in hills, deserts and forests.

Regards
 
The majority of taxes for Afghanistan comes via the Pakistan border trade

They facilitate that by smuggling and Afghans earning in Pakistan

Rather then understand how important this relationship is and how they need to improve it

They bite the hand that feeds it and cause themselves a crisis with winter coming


Stupid stupid people
 
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