Eltaf Najafizada

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Eltaf Najafizada

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Bloomberg) -- India’s foreign minister discussed last month’s deadly attack in Kashmir during his first conversation with Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, as the two sides continue efforts to improve ties. Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had a phone call with acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Thursday, marking the first high-level engagement between the two countries since the Taliban regained control of Kabul in 2021.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Eltaf Najafizada

12 hours agoSacramento Afghan refugees worry over temporary protected status revokedThousands of refugees from Afghanistan are facing an uncertain future after the White House announced plans to remove their Temporary Protected Status — meaning some might be forced to return to the country that's now led by the Taliban. Sacramento has one of the largest communities of Afghan refugees in the U.S. with around 20,000 people, according to the Afghan-American Foundation.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Eltaf Najafizada

India said Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, condemned last month’s deadly Kashmir attacks and urged that the perpetrators be brought to justice, as tensions with Islamabad escalate. Putin “expressed full support to India in the fight against terrorism,” Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said in a post on X on Monday.

1 month ago | stripes.com | Eltaf Najafizada

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow on March 18, 2025. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP/Getty Images via TNS) (Tribune News Service) — Nearly a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin called Afghanistan’s Taliban an “ally” in countering terrorism, Moscow lifted a two-decade-old ban on the group, aiming to bolster ties with Kabul to crush a joint enemy — the Islamic State.

1 month ago | leadertelegram.com | Eltaf Najafizada

Nearly a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin called Afghanistan’s Taliban an “ally” in countering terrorism, Moscow lifted a two-decade-old ban on the group, aiming to bolster ties with Kabul to crush a joint enemy — the Islamic State. The move was “no surprise,” given Putin has spoken of growing cooperation with the Taliban on terrorism, said John Herbst, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.