US Afghan representative Zalmay Khalilzad quits; pays for pro-Taliban tilt
Thomas West has been appointed as the new US special representative to Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken blazoned in a statement on Monday. This comes after Zalmay Khalilzad abnegated from the post following chaotic pullout of the American forces from Afghanistan. West, who served on also-Vice President Biden’s public security platoon and on […]
Afghan Uyghurs whose families fled China now fear the Taliban could deport them
BEIJING — In 1961, Muhammad’s also-teenage parents loaded as numerous things as they could onto yaks and nags, also set off walking toward the snow- sloped Pamir mountains. Their destination Afghanistan. They were among hundreds of Uyghurs who have fled northwest China’s Xinjiang region to Afghanistan since the 1950s. The Uyghurs, a substantially Muslim Turkic […]