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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Charlotte Greenfield |Mohammad Yunus Yawar
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3 weeks ago | 
reuters.com | Charlotte Greenfield |Mohammad Yunus Yawar
Trump order blocks Afghan citizens from the United States Thousands of Afghans stuck in Pakistan waiting for US processing 'Turned hopes into ashes' says women's rights defender ISLAMABAD/KABUL, June 5 (Reuters) - Fatima, a 57-year-old Afghan women's rights defender waiting in limbo in Pakistan for her U.S. visa to be processed, had her dreams shattered overnight after President Donald Trump included Afghans among those banned from entering the U.S. She worked for decades for U.S.-funded...
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Mohammad Yunus Yawar
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3 weeks ago | 
whbl.com | Mohammad Yunus Yawar
By Mohammad Yunus YawarKABUL (Reuters) -Russia has officially accepted the Taliban’s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations. Russia in April suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paved the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.
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1 month ago | 
kfgo.com | Mohammad Yunus Yawar |Charlotte Greenfield
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte GreenfieldKABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban administration is in advanced talks with Russia for banks from both sanctions-hit economies to settle trade transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars in their local currencies, Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister said. The Afghan government has made similar proposals to China, the minister, Haji Nooruddin Azizi, told Reuters on Thursday.
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2 months ago | 
933thedrive.com | Mohammad Yunus Yawar |Charlotte Greenfield
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte GreenfieldKABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Taliban’s acting foreign minister on Saturday expressed “concern and sadness” during a rare meeting with Pakistan’s foreign minister over the deportation of tens of thousands of Afghans, according to a statement. Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said on Friday, as part of a renewed surge in a repatriation drive that began in 2023.
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2 months ago | 
kfgo.com | Mohammad Yunus Yawar |Charlotte Greenfield
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte GreenfieldKABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Taliban’s acting foreign minister on Saturday expressed “concern and sadness” during a rare meeting with Pakistan’s foreign minister over the deportation of tens of thousands of Afghans, according to a statement. Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said on Friday, as part of a renewed surge in a repatriation drive that began in 2023.
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2 months ago | 
usnews.com | Mohammad Yunus Yawar |Charlotte Greenfield
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte GreenfieldKABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting foreign minister on Saturday expressed "concern and sadness" during a rare meeting with Pakistan's foreign minister over the deportation of tens of thousands of Afghans, according to a statement. Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said on Friday, as part of a renewed surge in a repatriation drive that began in 2023.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
msn.com | Andrew Mills |Mohammad Yunus Yawar
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Mills |Mohammad Yunus Yawar
By Andrew Mills and Mohammad Yunus YawarDOHA/KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen detained in Afghanistan for over two years following direct talks between U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Taliban officials in Kabul, a source briefed on the release told Reuters. George Glezmann, who was detained in 2022 while visiting Kabul as a tourist, left Afghanistan aboard a Qatari aircraft on Thursday evening bound for Qatar, the source said.
