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| Daily Evacuation Brief September 2, 2022 |
| 2022-09-02 |
[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS
CONFLICT TRACKER Zabil: Reports of skirmishing between Taliban and Pakistani forces near the Zanir area — eyewitnesses claim 3 Pakistani soldiers killed and 2 Talibs wounded. Kapisa: The AFF claims to have executed a night attack on a Taliban fortified position near Jesa-e-Dwom (near the Mirwais Karzi Bridge). The AFF claims to have killed 6 Talibs and wounded 8 in the action. NEXT 24 HOURS ESCALATION AT THE BORDER — If the reports of Afghan-Pakistan fighting in Zabul province are true, there could be an upcoming escalation. At-risk Afghans located along the border should be wary of potential shelling or other retaliatory measures. INTERESTING ARTICLES: The Historical Evolution of al-Qaeda’s Positions on China [HudsonInstitute] Over al-Qaeda’s more than 30 years of existence, the organization’s public stance on China has changed quite dramatically. Al-Qaeda has moved from trying not to agitate Beijing, to fleetingly listing “East Turkestan” (i.e., Uyghur-dominated lands, primarily China’s Xinjiang province) amongst a host of other locations where Muslims are oppressed, to directly criticizing, and at times even threatening, China for its domestic security measures in Xinjiang as well as its foreign policy actions in the Islamic world. Furthermore, al-Qaeda’s grievances against China have become markedly more numerous and nuanced and purveyed by a wider range of individuals, branches, and publications in recent years. Afghanistan next in Abraham Accords? Taliban refuses to rule it out They’ll say anything if it’ll get them donations, but it’s nothing more than taqqiya. [Jpost] A spokesman for the Taliban refused to rule out establishing relations with Israel during an interview with Al-Jazeera on Wednesday, despite earlier statements by the movement ruling this out, according to a clip shared by MEMRI."Our policy is to resolve problems through dialogue and mutual understanding with everybody. Whoever has a problem and wants to resolve it, we are perfectly ready," the spokesman of the Taliban’s Political Bureau, Dr. Muhammad Naeem, told Al-Jazeera. China's economic footprint steadily expanding across Afghanistan [ANInews] China is focusing firmly on business and cultural diplomacy to expand its economic footprint across Afghanistan. It is also sparing no effort to promote and support the Taliban, which finds itself in near diplomatic isolation. Latest media reports from Kabul and Beijing indicate 'good' progress on Chinese investments and reconstruction projects, reported Policy Research Group - Poreg. Chinese businessmen like Yu Minghui, who have stayed put after the US-led Nato's withdrawal, have reaped benefits. He has four steel processing lines. The China Town, a 10-storey building is the hub of Chinese business activity. An industrial estate is coming up in Kabul suburbs as the first Sino-Afghan joint venture at a cost of USD 216 million. There is talk of extending China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan and beyond. China has exempted 98 per cent of its Afghan buys from import duties. U.S. to discontinue quick humanitarian entry for Afghans and focus on permanent resettlement programs |
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