In a state- ment signed by three Canadian ministers—Foreign Affairs; National Defense; and Immigration, Refu- gees, and Citizenship—the government condemned the escalating violence in Afghanistan, especially against women, girls, and ethnic minorities. It also announced a suspension of the embassy'...
‘A SIV holder was beaten and tortured by the Taliban, SIV holder was working closely with the US embassy in Kabul,’ Canada-based Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary tweeted on Monday. ‘An American citizen’s home was raided, he was questioned and verbally abused. Multiple sources with direct ...
In-person interviews at the U.S. embassy in Kabul were suspended between March 2020 and this past February. After resuming, the embassy was forced to halt in-person interviews this summer due to a coronavirus outbreak. U.S. officials subsequently started virtual interviews. How are visa applica...
“amid reports he had quit because of the involvement of senior government officials in the illegal drug trade.” He had “been outspoken over the involvement of officials in the drug trade and is believed to have had differences with President Karzai over the appointment of Provincial officials...
Afghans have been streaming into Kabul’s international airport in recent days, desperate to fly out, even as more American troops have arrived to help partially evacuate the U.S. Embassy. U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan...
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But Imran Ali, Pakistan's deputy consul general in Toronto, told Postmedia News Wednesday that the Afghan-Pakistan border is shut tight for now. "No containers are passing as of today," he said. "There is a total sealing of the border." ...
The British army occupied Kabul, as it had in the first war, and a treaty signed at Gandamak (Gandomak) on May 26, 1879, recognized Shīr ʿAlī’s son, Yaʿqūb Khan, as emir. He subsequently agreed to receive a permanent British embassy at Kabul. In addition, he agreed to ...