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UK commanders want their people to think of the military as Noble and as someone going around the world to help people which is of course a huge lie, a journalist has said.

Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation has risen by a third over the past year, the UN's drugs agency said Tuesday. The UN body stated that the prices have risen after the Taliban's ban in April on poppy cultivation. The 2022 poppy crop was also "the most profitable in years," according to the UNODC.

The Afghanistan Ambassador to Tajikistan Muhammad Zahir Agbar has slammed Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani and blamed him for "situation in Afghanistan" for which the responsibility is in the "hand of Ghani." Ghani was the President of the Afghan Republic that collapsed on 15th August 2021 as he fled the country amid Taliban takeover.

This week's Gandhara Briefing brings you insights into the IS-K's ambitions to instigate a regional war against the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan's efforts to revive peace talks with the TTP, and why prohibitive marriage costs prevent some Afghan men from getting married.

A group of Afghan minority community members which includes Sikhs and Hindus called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday morning at his residence.  During the meeting PM Modi told them, "(India) this is your house, you are not a guest here. India is your house and every Indian ​gives respect and love to you".

Reaching out to India for the first time since taking control of Afghanistan on August 15, the head of Taliban’s political office, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, has termed New Delhi an “important country” and called for maintaining good diplomatic and economic ties. In his 45-minute-long speech in Pashto, Stanikzai touched upon several subjects like the formation of an inclusive government and maintaining ties with regional countries like Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekist...